Just the opposite: optic disk..intervertebral disc
Posted By: (sm) on 2005-11-17
In Reply to: disk for bones; disc for eyesn nm - Snow Bunny
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Disc or disk--
I really don't have time to search archives EVERYWHERE.....I tried and am only now more confused. I cannot afford an AAMT BOS--please we are arguing with our doctor--tell me, is it disk or disk and what page is it on in the BOS?????
Disk or disc
same meaning on both is this just a preferance?
Disc/disk - sm
I agree - disc for bone, disk for eye...been doing it that way for 25+years, never heard any different.
Disc v Disk
I have been told AAMT is disk for vertebrae and disc for eyes. However in the hospital I worked for on-site it was disk for vertebrae and many hospitals I've worked for want disk. Personally I don't understand this ridiculousness in MT work, as both are actually correct. So bottom line is -- ask for a/c you are working on. LOL
disc and disk
I vote for what the BOS-2 says regardless of the negative posts here. Look at the book and you won't have to post these types of questions here.
Disc or Disk
I still type disc and either is correct. But, I think BOS says type disk.
disk versus disc
I used to type for a neurosurgeon who requested that I put "disc". So there! Either way is correct.
And read this...disk vs. disc
disc vs disk
a 4-letter word
To what extent should one research the spelling of a word when there is more than one way to spell it? I suppose the answer would depend on a number of things, not the least of which is how much time one has to invest in word research. Productivity and therefore one’s pay suffers when ears, hands, and feet leave their transcription mode for any period of time.
If the word in question is a mere 4-letter word, it seems reasonable to believe that any one of respected resources would provide an appropriate spelling, so why bother with much research. Let’s face it, four-letter-word vocabularies are usually subject to more creative spellings than misspellings. However, because I was working on a special project, I decided to put to rest, once and for all time, the correct spelling of disc/disk as used in surgical dictation for a lumbar discectomy/diskectomy. Four hours and several resources later, I was sure I had my answer.
Au contraire.
I began my search in Stedman’s Medical 27th Edition. It is after all my medical dictionary of choice. Clearly the preference for disc/disk when referring to the spine is “disc.” I disagreed. My preferred spelling was “disk” for all things spinal, so I checked the AMA Manual Style. To my delight, they agreed with me. In fact, it clearly states that one should use “disc” for ophthalmologic terms and “disk” for the remainder of the anatomy.
Dr. Dirckx, noted medical language expert, explained disc/disk it in an article that appears in the January 2002 issue of JAAMT. His article begins, “As you have no doubt discovered, reference works show a striking lack of consistency in the spelling of this term.” Amen to that!
I almost always use Vera Pyle’s book for confirmation, she being the all-time guru and grande dame of medical vocabulary. I couldn’t believe my eyes. She directs that one use “disk” when transcribing ophthalmologic dictation and “disc” for the remainder of the anatomy.
All right, the gloves came off. Next stop, the revered AAMT Book of Style. “We recommend the spelling disk for all anatomic and surgical references …” I was satisfied and feeling pretty smug, so I declared the victory to a member of Stedman’s staff and suggested that the Stedman’s Dictionary team look into changing “disc” preference to “disk” in their new edition.
It is a good feeling to be right, and I was feeling real good. That is, until the S27 research team took my suggestion and consulted the world experts in medical terminology. Who are they? “They” are the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology, and “they” are the final word. Chairman Ian Whitmore states that Latin is the basis for the world's official terminology as found in Terminologia Anatomica (TA). Want to know more about TA? It is explained in S27 and makes interesting reading.
And just what do the world experts say about disk/disc? Disc is in for all things medical; disk is out. Why? Because Latin terms have official status and, though the origin of the word is from the Greek term “diskos, the Latin derivation is “discus.”
So, my fellow word junkies, if you have always used “disk” as your preferred spelling in all things anatomical, today is the day to change because “disc” is correct in the eyes of the world.
Disc vs. Disk - Very interesting
I don't know who wrote this, but I found it online long ago. Since I was told I was spelling "disc" wrong by other MTs (never by a doctor), I decided to research this matter and found this at http://www.stedmans.com/MTFeaturePrint.cfm/1324.
disc vs disk
a 4-letter word
To what extent should one research the spelling of a word when there is more than one way to spell it? I suppose the answer would depend on a number of things, not the least of which is how much time one has to invest in word research. Productivity and therefore one’s pay suffers when ears, hands, and feet leave their transcription mode for any period of time.
If the word in question is a mere 4-letter word, it seems reasonable to believe that any one of respected resources would provide an appropriate spelling, so why bother with much research. Let’s face it, four-letter-word vocabularies are usually subject to more creative spellings than misspellings. However, because I was working on a special project, I decided to put to rest, once and for all time, the correct spelling of disc/disk as used in surgical dictation for a lumbar discectomy/diskectomy. Four hours and several resources later, I was sure I had my answer.
Au contraire.
I began my search in Stedman’s Medical 27th Edition. It is after all my medical dictionary of choice. Clearly the preference for disc/disk when referring to the spine is “disc.” I disagreed. My preferred spelling was “disk” for all things spinal, so I checked the AMA Manual Style. To my delight, they agreed with me. In fact, it clearly states that one should use “disc” for ophthalmologic terms and “disk” for the remainder of the anatomy.
Dr. Dirckx, noted medical language expert, explained disc/disk it in an article that appears in the January 2002 issue of JAAMT. His article begins, “As you have no doubt discovered, reference works show a striking lack of consistency in the spelling of this term.” Amen to that!
I almost always use Vera Pyle’s book for confirmation, she being the all-time guru and grande dame of medical vocabulary. I couldn’t believe my eyes. She directs that one use “disk” when transcribing ophthalmologic dictation and “disc” for the remainder of the anatomy.
All right, the gloves came off. Next stop, the revered AAMT Book of Style. “We recommend the spelling disk for all anatomic and surgical references …” I was satisfied and feeling pretty smug, so I declared the victory to a member of Stedman’s staff and suggested that the Stedman’s Dictionary team look into changing “disc” preference to “disk” in their new edition.
It is a good feeling to be right, and I was feeling real good. That is, until the S27 research team took my suggestion and consulted the world experts in medical terminology. Who are they? “They” are the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology, and “they” are the final word. Chairman Ian Whitmore states that Latin is the basis for the world's official terminology as found in Terminologia Anatomica (TA). Want to know more about TA? It is explained in S27 and makes interesting reading.
And just what do the world experts say about disk/disc? Disc is in for all things medical; disk is out. Why? Because Latin terms have official status and, though the origin of the word is from the Greek term “diskos, the Latin derivation is “discus.”
So, my fellow word junkies, if you have always used “disk” as your preferred spelling in all things anatomical, today is the day to change because “disc” is correct in the eyes of the world.
disk for bones; disc for eyesn nm
Spinal disc or disk? I see it both ways. nm
NM
Back in the day, disk was for eye, disc was for spine,
now the MTSO I work wants disk for everything.
I use disc for eyes and disk for ortho/neuro but
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We were taught Disc - eyes, Disk - back
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Long night, HELP! disk or disc herniation.nm
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i was taught opposite, lol, but then at another company they preferred all disc; wide varieties. n
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Disc is in CD (read the label). Disk as in body part. nm
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Disc must be right because...
ASR always puts disk
Hot debate....I have been using disc for everything....
for over 10 months now and my main account does nothing but spine injections.....either a HUGE lack of communication (MQ?) or disc is just fine by them...not a word from QA or my accounts!! In fact, if you do a Google search for 'spinal disk' you come up with sites with both 'spinal disc' and 'spinal disk', every other one. Better ask you accounts.
disc herniation
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Thanks to both of you - but could you please tell me how to back it up to a disc?
Thanks
save it to a disc
nm
Bro wanting to use my disc to get his PC
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also have the lost PRD disc problem
I'm looking into this for a friend. She's using the Windows version of PRD+. Is this what you have, and if so would mind sending a copy to me?
Thanks
This may help with the disc part of question.
Every used Google.com yet? It is a search a question thing. Google.com and enter your phrase such as Eye examination and up come articles. You can click on the TITLES and they open to read, save etc It is a life saver and more you use it the better you learn what to enter so Google can find it
The Fundus Exam
Strabismus Testing · Macular
Degeneration ...
The Fundus Exam. The fundus of the eye includes the retina, macula, fovea, optic disc and retinal vessels. ...
www.yamout.us/information/he_fundus_exam.htm - Cached - Similar pages
Zip drive discs - help with corrupted disc
Anyone know of any tricks to get into a zip drive disk that desn't want to open up? I put the disc into the zip drive and try to open, but it keeps telling me disc not formatted. I have a lot of files in the disc that I need. I may have over filled it. I'm hoping there is a magic way to get into the disc somehow so I can retrieve the files in it.
I work for a chiropractor and he likes disc.
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Run disc clean-up also along with defragging..Found in same place.
Maybe you need more RAM. I don't know how old your computer is, but the more RAM you have, the faster it runs. You might even try compressing some save points too.
Good luck.
Opposite for me
As I sit here in my suit, blouse, nyons, heels and pearls I just gotta feel a little feel like I am not in the norm as to what I wear to work. Guess I will have to change the dresscode in my business. I was thinking of letting up a little and not requiring the nylons but at the last minute just could not do it. Perhaps in 2007 I won't be so strict with myself. What do ya think? 
For me it was the opposite
At my last in-house job, the company (hospital) itself as a whole was fine, but the beyotches in the transcription department were beyond belief. I don't say anything about them to people who know them, but it is a BAD situation.
Oh, no...just the opposite!
I've got one that hits pause for every sentence. Trouble is, he starts yakkin' before he unpauses, and pauses it before he stops yakkin', so I've got no beginning and no end on every sentence he dictates. To top it off, he's a speed dictator too. ARRGHH!
Really, really annoying! I'd rather listen to empty space.
And I'm the opposite SM
If this were one top with two arms, then I would agree, but since it is two separate tops (the top of the left arm and the top of the right arm), I would make it the tops of the left and right arms. But that Catholic school education feels like a billion years ago, so God only knows if I'm remembering the rules correctly.
I did the opposite...
I had been doing clinic and acute care, then was trained to do radiology.
I found acute care and clinic work to be far more interesting and enjoyable than the Radiology, so Rad transcription pretty much bored me senseless most of the time. I did it for 5 years, then switched back to the acute care and clinic work.
If you're up to a challenge and enjoy MT work in general, I think you'd really enjoy it. It will probably seem overwhelming at first, but you'll know some of the basics from radiology and should be okay.
Good luck and keep us posted!!!
I always thought it was the opposite of ...
guy, only now you can use guy for both sexes I think.
13-year-old opposite
Wow my 13-year old stepdaughter is opposite. Will not wear girl clothes and wants to buy out of the boy's department. Then she gets all her good tshirts outside and ruins them with stains, holes, etc. She is very very difficult. I almost wish she would try to wear my makeup.
I learned it exactly the opposite...
back in 1980 I learned that disc was for the spine and disk was for anything ophthalmological ......
we did just the opposite, but now bills alone about 2,500.....
We had a place similar to yours on a slough with lots of wildlife...loved the wildlife. Used to sit out on the deck and watch the great blue heron, raccoons, muskrats, ducks, etc. But never got it paid off as we kept building on as kids came along (3). We were there 30 years and finally sold to move out of the flood zone and into a new, easy-maintainance one story with smaller yard up near the hospital. The other place was so hard to paint and maintain that I knew we had to move before we couldn't take care of it anymore. Problem is our mortgage alone is 900$ month! Not as steep as others on this posting, but lots for us as the MT thing is not bringing in the money I expected! The house is worth lots more than we paid for it, and I keep saying we should sell it and rent until the big housing "adjustment" that I keep predicting, but family won't budge!
I have the opposite problem. (sm)
My hearing is too acute, and although it makes transcribing easier, if there is any background noise at all, it is the bane of my existence. I actually went to an ENT doc once to see if there was some way to tone it down a little! He just laughed. :(
woman of the opposite sex
That's hilarious! Thanks for the belly laugh. I needed it today.... LOL.
Mine are the opposite
I do look up lost dictation for my docs, they have been with me for many years --one has been for 18 years, they do give me Christmas bonues -- usually half of a month's invoice - they do give me Birthday cards, they always say "thank you", they always pay on time, never a bounced check or a question on my line counts, but then I go the extra mile for them. They have talked about VR and EMR's but find it it too time consuming yet. Maybe some day I will lose them to that but that is the way of the industry right now. Right now I just thank my lucky stars for the accounts that I have and appreciate them as much at they appreciate me. Yes, I do put up with rattling of x-rays and papers and dictating in a car or at a soccer game and when it becomes too bad, I do say something and it changes. But in the most part they are pretty good. Sorry will not share them with anyone.
Patti
Just the opposite here. I do great
on the test and then a few days later start to get into the account and wonder if I should really be doing better than I am doing and if they really believe it was me testing! LOL!!
I had just the opposite experience.
Bytescribe was too cumbersome and then there's the issue of three installs...Express Scribe just released a new version and there is a Special Audio Process under File that can help clean up files.
My account is just the opposite
We have been given the green light for over-time this week and next. It was slow but steady November through February but now it's a whole new ballgame. I'm not complaining, though!
I am just the opposite of what you are talking about
I set myself to make a certain amount each pay period, have to have X amount per day and that is what I make.
My experience has been the opposite
There are some ESLs that I actually prefer to their American-born counterparts. Depending on the specialty, you can almost count on them for more lines per report. However, my experience to date has been that the good, audible, consistent, doctors who enunciate even with an accent are going to VR. Left behind are the speed mumblers, hem-hawers, and self-editors, along with the accent so thick and recorded in such a way that it sounds as if he has crawled inside the microphone/mouthpiece. In places where they have dared to put everyone across the board into the VR systems, the above dictators will cross your desk for editing; at least when they've been kicked out before getting to VR, I can get my normal line count for typing them; if I get them after VR has swiss-cheesed them, I get paid half that for trying to tease apart what was said by the dictator from Hades from what brainless VR thinks was said.
In my perfect world, the MTs left transcribing the VR rejects should be making 10 cents a line, and anybody cleaning up VR should be making no less than 6-7 (assuming the nice clean dictation balances out the crud).
And I am hoping just the opposite of
VR being done away with. I love it, mine is an excellent platform and with all the ESLs we have now, I don't have to rack my brain to find out what they are trying to say. Thank goodness for VR and I hope the hospital I work for keeps it.
Totally opposite of my experience
When I started and they installed everything on my computer, they also updated my AOL IM buddy list and I had the ID of everyone else working on the account I was on, as well as team leads, account coordinators, office personnel, etc. It was so easy to IM someone and get help. It still is. My coordinators get back to me immediately. They are always available. Also, the account specs for every account are right there online and easy to access. I've been there about 18 months now and have never been happier. I haven't experienced any of the problems mentioned here.
My geek told me the opposite. He said that
if you leave it on all the time, the computer is vulnerable to hacker attacks because they're probing your ports even with a firewall on. They know how to get through firewalls and web browser security glitches.
I'm lucky..I have the opposite problem.
After people hear what I do, they say: I would love to be at home, but I could never learn all that "stuff." I've even had a few friends tell me they are impressed with what I do. Never hurts to hear that after a day of speed-talkers and mushy mouthed doctors trying to grab lunch on the run and dictate at the same time!
I feel totally the opposite
Best I leave it at that.
I was the opposite. I used my old way for the longest time
because I couldn't handle the new program and the new way both at once. Once I was comfortable with IT, then I started using expansion keys and actually increased my production from in almost 20%. It definitely was work making myself learn to use them!
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