Only if the account is verbatim would I

• Proper way to type height measurements - Daisy
  • Only if the account is verbatim would I - (sm)
  • if they say *foot* - give 'em foot....nm - no comma - 5 foot 1 inch......nm
    • Proper way to type height measurements - nm - MT in MS
      • some dictators are quite picky-have one who wants - 5 foot if he says 5 foot, or 5 feet if he says it.
        • And of course some just don't know what is proper....nm - sm
          • mine are all verbatim *S*........nm - 5 foot if he says 5 foot, or 5 feet if he says it.
            • That's unfortunately, verbatim is so unprofessional...; ) - sm
              • that is true-but I do what who signs paychecks SM - 5 foot if he says 5 foot, or 5 feet if he says it.
              • meant to say *unfortunate*...and nm - nm
                • I knew what you meant!! *LOL*....nm - 5 foot if he says 5 foot, or 5 feet if he says it.

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She is sating(satting) 98% on room air?

I want to change, but on verbatim, I suppose I'm not supposed to, right? I'm relatively new to this and not sure.

How would you type... as I have it?

actually leave this sentence as is?

She puts Neosporin on it, and she reports that in the morning it looks pussy.  

 TIA for any input.

He just said the patient was *ambued and could not be intibated due to facial trauma* 

So, looks like this is one of those that is up in the air and probably something to talk to company QA about? 

Should I edit to "urinate" or type as is? If as is, should I put it in quotes?

Diagnosis is micturation syncope. Here is the sentence as dictated:

 Thanks for any help.

Or how much they expect you to correct. I used to transcribe for a doctor who did the worst run-on sentences and sometimes I would rack my brains trying to figure out where to put punctuation without changing what she said (the account was verbatim except for obvious grammatical errors like subject-verb agreement). Finally I decided, if that's the way she wants to say it, that's what she is going to get. I just made sure that what she was saying made some reasonable kind of sense.  She was also notorious for changing her mind half a dozen times in a single sentence, and for not reading her reports before approving them. She once dictated a hysterosalpingogram (test to see if the fallopian tubes are blocked) and let the following impression go out to the requesting physician:

IMPRESSION:  Bilateral tubal pregnancy.

instead of

IMPRESSION:  Bilateral tubal patency.

(No, I didn't type it!)

If they don't, I would change the tense to whatever is the norm for that account or that doctor.

If they do require verbatim, I would type it verbatim but let the QA preson know that the doctor had shifted tenses.

But that's just me....

I think I have come to that conclusion, also.  There is just too much for me to try to fix it all.  I'm not sure I would even know where to begin.  There is just so much garbage...  Thanks for verifying my thoughts, though.... :)