I agree that we need more context. However, newbies don't realize this and deserve our patience.

• Boycott with me - Millie
  • I agree that we need more context. However, newbies don't realize this and deserve our patience. - CL
    • Patience - Millie
      • For the most part, agree. I don't bother with the lazy-sounding questions, but there are some sm - CL
        • Will do! NM - Millie
  • WHAT DO YOU MEAN - DL
    • See msg - Millie
      • But I have seen one person in particular - Not trying to be mean

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experience.  An AeroChamber is a medication delivery device only...so if the patient used an AeroChamber with no medication in it, the patient could not begin to feel better.  AeroBid has medication in it that would cause the patient to feel better and would dual treatment is often used in acute respiratory flares in addition to steroids.

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I've tutored many MTs over the years, and have always added little anecdotes to their "lessons" (whether they liked it or not) which seemed to help them remember certain things.  I was taught that way, and it seemed to work. 

Anyway, what you newbies really, really need to do is brush up on your English, spelling, punctuation and grammar skills.  If you make a mistake with a medical term, more than likely your QA will forgive that.  But if you make errors on things you should have learned in high school, it's bad.  There is no excuse in MT to make these kinds of mistakes. 

My anecdote now:  When I was in college, because of taking extra courses not required in my curriculum, I had to take courses which were not typical of my curriculum but were acceptable for the credits I needed.  One was called "Advanced rhetoric and expositional writing."  There were no other med sec majors in my class.  These were people who were majoring in politics, government, physics, economics, and other lofty 4+years things.  They were able to spin about what was going on with the Vietnam war, the race riots, etc. It was a hot time (in a bad way) and the issues were mindblowing.  The president of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) was in my class!!!   I was in awe.  I didn't fit.  Little med secretarial major me was so naive that I wrote on subjects like "my most embarrassing moments," etc.  My subject matter just couldn't compare with these other classmates who were so far ahead of me, but I got a B+ (!!!)  for the course because of my grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills. 

Lesson:  Goes to show ya how important this is.  Good English skills is a foundation everyone needs--especially in this business. 

Hard to change my ways anyway at this age.....*LOL* but we ARE the minority on this, as I have many people in my life in the business forever too.  I took a formal MT class 26 years ago at a major teaching hospital (with branches all over this country) and this very issue came up, and they (the instructors) insisted that it is disk for eyes and disc for the spine.  But, like most reasonable posters have already said, they are both acceptable in use.  Again, it's always client preference. 

Demographics have TONS to do with that - I remember in 1980 - where I live had TONS of elderly (now deceased) so the first years of me doing MT work, the very elderly are usually in hospitals with these kinds of problems.  But now where I live, median age is 38!!!

Hence, it doesn't fit the bill any longer, and demographics have changed so drastically in the USA the past 30 years and especially the last 10 years that these statements of hers aren't cutting it.

Oh well, with the cute icon popping bubble gum of hers and it is a very cute emoticom, a grown woman in her 40s-50s-60s I do not think would usually choose an emoticom like that one - perhaps she is very, very young, and we cannot fault her for being a baby.  She'll grow up one day and realize it all on her own, IF she opens up her eyes. 

It's a WEED killer....she was smoking mary-j-wana...get it?  LMFAO!

of help out here but what is this?

PPP syndrome could refer to MEN (multiple endocrine neoplasia), which "typically involves the pituitary, parathyroid, and pancreas glands (recall it as the PPP syndrome)."

http://www.utmem.edu/endocrinology/Endocrine%20pathophysioloy/Chap%2014.htm

I also saw pustulosis palmoplantaris syndrome and pretty picture protectiveness syndrome.

What kind of surgery is it?  Where is the incision being made? 

Can you please supply this information.  Thanks