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Saving Keystrokes - - a book to help

Posted By: 99MT on 2007-10-27
In Reply to: expansions - GF

Subject: Saving Keystrokes - - a book to help

with expansions - one of its suggestions is to make an expansion for any word you hear 3 times - - and the other is to make words without the voweld - like fmr for femur - ttl for total - one thing I started doing is adding any drug I look up so that I will know if it is capital or lower case and will never have to look it up again. Also put as many common phrases in as you can. Hope this helps.


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"When the Name of the Game is Saving Keystrokes" or sm
Subject: "When the Name of the Game is Saving Keystrokes" or sm

apparently the new edition is simply "Saving Keystrokes," both by Diana Rolland, if I remember correctly. The older version used to come as a spiral-bound workbook/video combo, but the new version appears to be a trade paperback. I assume the info is largely the same.
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Subject: Thanks for saving the day!

xx
did you try saving it in
Subject: did you try saving it in

rich text format?
Thanks for the info. I am saving up for the BOS.
Subject: Thanks for the info. I am saving up for the BOS.


Problem saving document
Subject: Problem saving document

I do have the right to save it.  I only do private accounts and I do not rely upon the internet.  These are just tapes I work from.  It has to be somethi9ng else.
problem saving a Word document
Subject: problem saving a Word document

Has anyone ever gotten a message like this:  Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error?
Thanks! Saw it in Equip book, but not cardiac book.
Subject: Thanks! Saw it in Equip book, but not cardiac book.

Go figure.

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Stedman's Medical Equipment terms book or the Ortho terms book would help. nm
Subject: Stedman's Medical Equipment terms book or the Ortho terms book would help. nm

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Thanks. My book is too old to have that one.
Subject: Thanks. My book is too old to have that one.


Thank you so much!! I really need to get that book!
Subject: Thank you so much!! I really need to get that book!


Thanks very much! That's probably the only book I don't have!
Subject: Thanks very much! That's probably the only book I don't have!

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Which book was that in?
Subject: Which book was that in?

Found a Liberte stent reference in a past note.
I fix it for them the way it's in the book,
Subject: I fix it for them the way it's in the book,

but then again some services might not want you to.
Not in my book
Subject: Not in my book

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thanks.. its not in my 2nd ed GI/GU book nm
Subject: thanks.. its not in my 2nd ed GI/GU book nm


My Abbrev. book has tib-fib. nm
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Thanks so much! Will write it in my book. nm
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Thanks!! Maybe my book is too old, doesn't have it. nm
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sm - love my lab book!
Subject: sm - love my lab book!

VMA, 5-HIAA, cortisol is right, and it is epinephrine and norepinephrine
Thanks! I was looking in the HPI ortho book
Subject: Thanks! I was looking in the HPI ortho book


written in my book
Subject: written in my book

Granted I bought this book used, but the last owner wrote in "arcade of Frosche" (tunnel in the arm). I can't find anything on the Henry one though, sorry. I do try to find another reference if they were not written in by me, but I don't have one. :)
osetopathy ref book
Subject: osetopathy ref book

Stedman's 5th Edition Orthopaedic & Rehab Words + Stedman's Pathology and Lab Words should cover all you bases. See this link:
http://www.diagnosispro.com/online_store/clinical-reference/Stedman's+Orthopaedic+&+Rehab+Words,+5th+Ed.+(CD-ROM).html

In my Stedman's GI & GU book.....
Subject: In my Stedman's GI & GU book.....

they are both listed side by side, so I think it is the same procedure but just two different ways of writing it out. Either way looks correct.
As per AAMT book 2, is it x2 or x 2? TIA nm
Subject: As per AAMT book 2, is it x2 or x 2? TIA nm

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Does anyone have the Stedman's GI/GU book? (sm)
Subject: Does anyone have the Stedman's GI/GU book? (sm)

Can someone please look up Dobbhoff tube for me and tell me what page it is on and what edition they have of the Stedman's?  That would be Dobbhoff with TWO b's and TWO f's for my purposes, here. I need that particular spelling. 


I would be SO grateful!


(Background - I was on here a while ago asking about this word. Someone was nice enough to answer me with the correct spelling as found in the Stedman's GI/GU.  I used that spelling -- the one above.  QA came after me.  I defended myself by citing Stedman's GI/GU.  QA has asked me for the edition and the page number.  Well, I don't have the durn reference MYSELF, one of you nice people helped me.)  THANKS!


thank you...added it to my book.
Subject: thank you...added it to my book.

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I mean Stedman book
Subject: I mean Stedman book

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per the Book of Style
Subject: per the Book of Style

Per Book of Style 2 edition page 150:

"When the generic name and brand name of a medication sound alike, use the generic spelling unless it is certain that the brand name is being referenced to."

Therefore, I would use the generic spelling levothyroxine.

What would you go by...book or internet....SM
Subject: What would you go by...book or internet....SM

For constipation, patient is being prescribed *Senna-lax-S*.  My Quick Look Drug Book does not have it at all.  Google does have it all over.  My Stedman's spellchecker marks it wrong though and wants to change it to Cenalax.  Cenalax does not come up on Google anywhere and asks if I meant 'sennalax' instead.   OY!  Anyone know which is correct?  Is my Stedman's spellchecker wrong-o?


Yes, I see it my drug book also
Subject: Yes, I see it my drug book also

generic for Humalog. lispro
my drug book has Z-PAK nm
Subject: my drug book has Z-PAK nm


My onc book shows
Subject: My onc book shows

verrucous squamous cell carcinoma and also villous. and varicoid. Might want to check into those by googling the phrases.
these are all the encephalopathies in my book
Subject: these are all the encephalopathies in my book

encephalopathy

AIDS encephalopathy
alcoholic encephalopathy
amyotrophic type of spongiform encephalopathy
anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
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autosomal recessive syndrome of encephalopathy
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glycine encephalopathy
Heidenhain type of spongiform encephalopathy
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hepatic encephalopathy
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hypernatremic encephalopathy
hypertensive encephalopathy
hypoglycemic encephalopathy
hyponatremic encephalopathy
hypoparathyroid encephalopathy
hypoxic-hypercarbic encephalopathy
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lead encephalopathy
Leigh necrotizing encephalopathy
liver encephalopathy
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multicystic encephalopathy
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pertussis vaccination encephalopathy
portal systemic encephalopathy
post pertussis vaccination encephalopathy
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postcontusion syndrome encephalopathy
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progressive degenerative subcortical encephalopathy
progressive dialysis encephalopathy
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progressive traumatic encephalopathy
pulmonary encephalopathy
recurrent encephalopathy
reversible encephalopathy
saturnine encephalopathy
septic encephalopathy
severe postanoxic encephalopathy
spongiform virus encephalopathy
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subcortical vascular encephalopathy
thiamine deficiency encephalopathy
thyrotoxic encephalopathy
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traumatic progressive encephalopathy
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There is appendicocele in the book
Subject: There is appendicocele in the book


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Subject: I can't document in a book either, but

crura of the diaphragm actually makes some sense. I am thinking this is repair of a hiatal hernia or a small hole that would lead to a hiatal hernia. Myself, I would give the doctor the word and use it.
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Subject: My dental book

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Thanks! But which book under what heading? I tried with
Subject: Thanks! But which book under what heading? I tried with

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AAMT book says
Subject: AAMT book says

Use a hyphen for clarification.
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Subject: my Onc book has HER2/neu nm


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Subject: Thanks! I didn't have that one in my book!


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Subject: That's great, I can add it to my book, thanks!


I don't see that in my Ortho book -
Subject: I don't see that in my Ortho book -

And can't find that spelling online. It may be something new, but I've never heard/seen it as it's spelled.

Can you give a s/l spelling? How does he pronounce it?
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Subject: thanks, that's it....it is not in my abbrev. book so I was not sure....NM


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Subject: thanks! this one is not in my abbrev. book either :(


Book of Style
Subject: Book of Style

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Looking in my Stedman's Ob-Gyn book,
Subject: Looking in my Stedman's Ob-Gyn book,

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Subject: When you look in your ortho book

under tendon, you won't see "extension" tendon. You will see extensor tendon.
I had to write it in my HPI book, but
Subject: I had to write it in my HPI book, but

I wrote in "os styloideum."

I usually researched extensively before adding anything, but that's all I can tell you now.
thanks, adding to my book!nm
Subject: thanks, adding to my book!nm

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Book of Style sm.
Subject: Book of Style sm.

It is the former AAMT's way of trying to standardize what each MT is doing. Many companies expect you to strictly adhere to what the BOS says for quality and if you do not it affects your QA scores.