Per BOS2 either way.
Posted By: NM on 2008-10-14
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Please do not feel bad, I have been transcribing for ages and tested not so good because of the BOS. I took a test locally (psych) and they told me to do it their way; never mind anyone else's. I had a terrible time as I didn't know what their way was.I kept asking myself if it was okay. They noticed the difference in my format and didn't like it, they wanted it the old way. I felt like I was flunking kindergarten. It's not easy but you will get a second chance and a third and fourth by others. Just try to learn the thing and don't take it personally. Give it your best shot and feel better about yourself, it's not you, believe me.Typing in the dark, so excuse me. I don't follow the BOS for my own notes. Don't care for it myself, but when in Rome, do what the Romans do, even if you don't like it. Good luck, hang in there!!!
Actually according to the BOS2
on page 189,
Always capitalize genus names and their abbreviated forms when they are accompanied by a species name.
Haemophilus influenzae
Escherichia coli
Staphyococcus aureus
HOWEVER:
Lowercase genus names used in plural and adjectival forms and when used in the vernacular, for example, when they stand alone (without a species name).
staphylococcus
group B streptococcus
staphylococci
staphylococcal infection
staph infection
strep throat
So moraxella without a species name should not be capitalized according to BOS2.
tell them to stick the BOS2
down the garbage disposal.
However is in charge of this book needs to get on Tegretol, to control their bloody mood swings.
What next? You can only transcribe using the DVORAK keyboard?
Follow-up per BOS2 is not to be used.
Followup is noun, follow up is adjective or verb.
Page 461, BOS2.
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This list is given in BOS2.
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BOS2 is good enough. Not many changes
and most companies are still using BOS2, so if it's a lot cheaper, might as well go for it...
Can you please tell me what page - I can't find this in BOS2. nm
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Per BOS2 - there are spaces, no punctuation between T N M (nm)
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disk for both according to BOS2 now. It changed since BOS1. nm
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Agree with poster below - BOS2 says x2 no space, but the way your
supervisor wants it is the way to go ALWAYS, be it right or wrong, or how you have done it in the past. After all, if you are not doing it the way the client/supervisor/QA says, you can be dismissed for not following instructions.
online testing seems to favor BOS2 but..
my hospital used BOS3. I failed a test recently because I used BOS3 so you can't win.
BOS2, pg. 180, don't hyphenate fractions written out and used as nouns, so correct w/o the hypen
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Edit - sorry. Every single employer wanted me to have my own copy of the BOS2.Need coffee.
nm
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