Help with word usage delima???
Posted By: young MT on 2009-03-12
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Subject: Help with word usage delima???
Dictated: The foot was prepped, Hibiclensed and draped in usual sterile fashion.
would you recast the sentence? My QA suggested that it should be transcribed "The foot was prepped, Hibiclens and draped in usual sterile fashion."
This doesn't make sense to me because the foot cannot be Hibiclens. I had typed it as dictated per our guidlines on dictator style, and i have .75% off my QA score on it.
Does anybody have suggestions? How should it be transcribed??
~Trying to learn as fast as I can~ 
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