I made that error for years but it's *shotty*....

• word - susan
  • simply put, shoddy means poorly made, shotty - means shotty means small, round, hard -no message
  • Definition of shotty according to medterms.com - Rad MT
  • shotty - Kim
  • word - MNMT
    • Transcription quality can be shoddy, - Me
    • I made that error for years but it's *shotty*.... - and not shoddy............nm
      • Shotty lymph nodes. . . . - Barb
    • Shoddy means inferior or cheap. - trose

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Now some are saying it's q. 4h.??  UGH, YUCK!!  I have also worked on accounts where it had to be "every 4 hours," and we had to spell out p.r.n. (as needed for).  At least we got more characters. 

First rule:  It is all what the "client/account" wants, not always what the BOS says it is.  I realize that language and its usage is constantly changing, but I've seen so many BOS and client flip-flops on so many other things in nearly 3 decades that it's laughable.  What isn't laughable is when we get penalized for not knowing what they want, even when they, themselves, don't know or are wrong.

Oh, and I still prefer the old no spaces:  q.4h., q.4-6h., q.12h., and so on.....

shotty as in the shots - the little balls in BB guns.

Can anyone tell me if I should use shoddy lymph nodes or shotty lymph nodes.  For some reason they both spell check and I don't know which is right!!  Thanks in advance.

Shotty: Resembling shot or pellets of lead, shotgun pellets and, hence, hard and round. The term "shotty" was in use in the 19th century. It is now generally obsolete but it is still in medicinal usage.

Shotty is very commonly used in describing the feel of lymph nodes (the lymph glands) when they are palpated (felt) through the skin. "Shotty" lymph nodes are ones that are not only hard and round but also small and surely of no consequence.

No consequence is not always the case with shotty. The pustules (the little pockets of pus) in smallpox are said to feel shotty, according to D.A. Henderson, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Smallpox Eradication Unit from its inception in 1966 to 1977. "Smallpox pustules have a dimple, a dent in the center. Doctors say that the pustules have a 'shotty' feel, like shotgun pellets. You can roll them between your fingertips under the skin," Henderson recounted (quoted by Richard Preston in The New Yorker, July 12, 1999).

Is it shotty or shoddy lymph nodes?

Doctor dictates "In the end, we decided to _____ s/l error or air on the side of treatment with Zithromax. 

I feel so dumb, but just can't think of the correct term! 

The patient had removal of this aberrant eyelash from the lower lid in the following manner:

The eyelash was still within the eyelid itself.  I used magnifying glasses, as well as splinter forceps and was able to localized the eyelash and remove it from the lower lid.  The size of the eyelash was about 0.5 cm in size.  In fact, it appeared to be in an aberrant location of the other eyelashes itself.  I felt that this eyelash could actually have been relocated somehow to AN ERROR POOR?  The patient tolerated the procedure well, no complications.  The patient was given Ciloxan to be

IMPRESSION:

1.  Occipital neuralgia.

2.  Probable acute gastroenteritis.

or

IMPRESSION:  Occipital neuralgia, probable acute gastroenteritis.

I think your female dictator might have that GPS in her vehicle...*lol*

fogging

fogcing

sorry, I worked hard today and put my question to the OP in the wrong place above :(

think I'll get offline for a bit........