to tell you the truth, I have seen it.....sm

I have seen it in books both ways, online both ways, but a national got on me years ago.....their QA confusing....getting called on it for both ways....protime or pro time.  Just makes sense to me if the word is prothrombin then short for that would be protime......

No MD's office has ever complained to me YET about this issue - it was the national years ago.....

• is it protime, pro-time, or spelled out prothrombin time? also, where did you find it.. i've look - thanks in advance
  • Here's a great site for labs..... - Smiley
  • Protime and prothrombin time. They are two different studies. - PT and PTT
    • ?? PTT is partial thromboplastin time, PT is prothrombin time - thanks in advance
      • you are correct... c msg - aa
        • AAMT BOS Second Ed says, "The expanded form, prothrombin time, is preferable, but if the short..s - M
          • BOS likes to make up their own thing just to be superior and.. - aa
            • actually I think it makes perfect sense to use it as - 2 words even without BOS direction NM
              • it is prothrombin time, to separate....sm - I don't agree - it does not make sense if
                • Did you just decide to do that or did a particular MD - ask you for the combined form? NM
                  • to tell you the truth, I have seen it.....sm - I don't agree - it does not make sense if
                    • then you should also use alkphos and crit and - O2sat...be consistent with your work NM
                      • acutually... - aa
                        • beg to difer about accuracy of books - Stedman recently updated
                          • oh and.. - aa
                          • um hello...never said.... - aa
                        • sorry, meant "actually" - aa

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Half the time when doctors spell something for me, they spell it wrong, and the other half of the time I look it up to make sure they're right - and they're usually not.

As far as singular/plural or subject/verb agreement, even with American-born docs - fuggeddaboudit!!!!