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Patient may weight-bear as tolerated.

Posted By: Tracy on 2009-05-05
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Subject: Patient may weight-bear as tolerated.

Would this be punctuated right, with the hypen? It just sounds weird and backwards....lol.


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Subject: is it weightbear or weight bear?

It's the end of the day and I cannot remember if it is "weightbear" or "weight bear" as in "The patient may weightbear/weight bear as tolerated."


I tried to look it up online and found it both ways...  I know it is weightbearing...


My eyes are starting to cross and it looks funny either way!


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Subject: I think bore weight is correct. It is not beared weight. You can be weightbearing

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Subject: I usually hyphenate it to "weight-bear".

as in, "the patient's foot pain had disappeared, and he was finally able to weight-bear for short periods of time each day".
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Subject: he was able to weighjtbear=He beared weight

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