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I am not sure what board this should be on.  I just want your opinions on this.  I work at a facility with 5 in-home transcriptionists.  I am the only one with credentials, and I truly do not want to be a snob.  There is nothing wrong with on-the-job training if it is done thoroughly. 

Recently one of the others sent us all an email.  She said she and another one of the transcriptionists had been talking and they did not like typing the word "pussy" when it is dictated.  She said that it is not really a word and has a bad connotation and we should type "pus-like" instead.  This really irritated me, first of all because who is she to tell the rest of us what we should type.  But what really bugged me is just the thought of the practice of changing what the dictator said just because the word offends me. 

Now I know there are times when rules quide us to change what was said...like in dangerous abbreviations, abbreviations in the impression and contractions.  But this is not one of those times.  Also "pussy" IS a word and "pus-like" is not an accurate substitution.

So I emailed the group back and pointed out that we should type what is said and that it was, indeed, a word and cited both the page number and the definition from my Webster's. 

Any opinions on this subject?  Any suggestions as to how I should have handled this?  It makes me cringe to think that the others might be making this change (and what others...how many times have you had to type the F word?) but, really what they type is none of my business.  But what do I do if this becomes a decree?

• Question - L
  • I'm with you, I type what is dictated. sm - Confetti
  • What do your credentials actually get you? - MT2
    • I think - L
  • I would type pus-like because... - Kendra
    • Changing what is dictated is not always appropriate - They said what
  • Not sure - Horski
  • It may be a word in Webster's but - Backwards typist
    • Nursing school teaches it as pus-like. - TypinHappy

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