I just received the electronic BOS

• Gals in my office are taking a vote, we are arguing about 7-French SM - patj
  • Straight from the Bard site. - Catheters used. sm
    • ever used 5 Fr - lmc
  • I've always been taught #7 French (nm) - SP
  • 7-French with hyphen. - Jammy
  • 7 French - is what I type.
  • french - Boo
    • Sorry, but it is French not french - ss
    • Steadman's Med/Surg equipment... - ormtme
      • Oops...you know I meant Stedman's! nm - ormtme
        • Dorland's too - AnnieM!AnnieM!
    • AAMT has it capitalized and hypen if 5-French catheter, but not if size 5 French. (nm) - pat
      • hyphens - mttexas
      • It also states to "precede by # or No. if the word 'number' is dictated. sm - nm
      • **hyphen (nm) - pat
  • I have always used hypen, but checked on-line at supply company - there is no hypen (nm) - ann
    • --me 2, "hyphen" (nm) - ann
    • It's not a company standard - me
      • Well hey who wants to argue - AAMT?
        • The problem is that if we don't go by AAMT, QA kicks our butts!!! (nm) - jenny
          • I just received the electronic BOS - clhmt

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departments
Lowercase common nouns designating department names; reserve capitals for proper nouns or adjectives, in addresses, or when part of a federal government agency name.

She is head of the St. Mary's Hospital surgery department.
He works for the State Department in Washington, DC.
The patient is head of the English department at the local state university.

However, capitalize a department name that is referred to as an entity.

The patient was referred to Anesthesia for preoperative evaluation.
The report from Pathology indicates that the tumor is benign.

divisions
Lowercase common nouns naming institutional divisions.

the administrative division of Memorial Hospital

internal units
Lowercase common names for internal units of an organization.

The patient's medication was changed because apparently the pharmacy can no longer obtain paregoric.

Exception: Capitalization may be used for such internal units in the entity's references to itself in its own formal and/or legal documents.

Please note the change in Pharmacy hours...

Capitalize internal elements when their names are not generic terms.

Dr. Smith's Limb Deficiency Clinic

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Have copied a few pertinent to your question etc.

angina

I love it when we can "out wit" them. Of course a lot of these guys, not only ESLs, make up the stuff. The first thing they taught  was about the prefixes etc in the old transcription classes. I had been typing for about 2 years when they offered the class at a junior college where my husband was attending, he got me the book, which I still have, and I almost keeled over at all the different combos etc.

GOOD GOING GIRL!!!!!! 

Tyndall phenomenon:

the visibility of floating particles in gases or liquids when illuminated by a ray of sunlight and viewed at right angles to the illuminating ray. Syn: Tyndall effect.

Prior sent. was taking contraceptives w/o relief for menorrhagia

I am assuming dep maybe in reference to deprovera?

Tendinitis:  Because this word is based on the Latin word tendo, with a genitive singular form of tendinis, and a combining form that is therefore tendin, the spelling tendonitis is irregular.