Exactly!

This is my current company's policy:  The BOS is to be followed,  except when it differs from the company's style guide and except when also not in conflict with the site specific information of the client.

So you end up sequentially checking three different authorities (and of course you will not find the issue specifically addressed in all of them) and then trying to weigh which trumps the others.  Client comes first, then company, then BOS.  And if you work on several dissimilar accounts, it's frustrating and exhausting to figure all this out, and many minutes of production are lost. 

• long time MTs opinion on BOS sm - MT 30+ years and running
  • BOS - Donna Houg
  • I use it BUT sm - QAing MT
    • Actually, there is another style guide for MTs (sm) - ChuckM
    • wonder how they can change rules of English... - Curious
  • I'm sure most of you get instructions like this - Mythbuster
    • Indiastan!!! Ha-ha-ha.... GOOD ONE. :) nm - FUNNY
      • After I sent that, - Mythbustger
  • I think BOS is just a way to fleece MTs, IMO. nm - jazzMT
  • Book of BS. - MT9
  • our hospital expressly prohibits use of the BOS. - Lorie R.
    • That is how it should be! I wish sm - MT 30+ years and running
  • is there anyone out there to defend the BOS? - Happy MT Robin
    • There's nothing wrong with the BOS, it's just that so many accounts are verbatim and - MSMT
      • No need for standardization. - e-MT
    • You are the classic example of the lost productivity due to BOS. nm - TechSupport
      • But it's not the BOS itself that causes productivity loss, it's the improper (sm) - ah, but
        • You're quite correct in one sense. (sm) - TechSupport
          • Exactly! - Mythbuster
          • What I am finidng is that with the sm - MT 30+ years and running
  • BOS is just one more AHDI/AAMT rip-off. -sm - Topaz
  • basically I agree - sm, 30+ yrs MTing
  • I have never seen a BOS... - Octo-MT
  • 34 years here - Book of S*** - Old part-timer
  • Agree. I've never had a BOS.. never will..nm - bosless
  • Agree 100% - sm - sammypot
  • How do you teach someone s/m - ncmt
  • BOS garbage - radgirl
  • I am sure there will be more sm - MT 30+ years and running
  • Doctors don't care what's in BOS - the client writes the check!
  • It's cost the industry considerable productivity as....(sm) - TechSupport
    • Bravo! 1 cm no 1-cm. Follow-up no follow up. 1 mg no 1mg. 1 space after period, no 2. S - 20 yrs in this business and QA makes me cringe.
    • My employer provided mine because I do QA as well.. - MtMommyof2
  • I can't help but go "hmmmmm" - NocturnalMT
    • Don't know about you guys, - Mythbuster
    • Response to I can't help - TravelinMT
      • But - a space IS a keystroke, unless you only get - paid by VBC. - Topaz - NM
      • I'm no apologist for the BOS, but the one-space thing has other origins. sm - ChuckM
        • There is no such thing as a "standard business practice". - TechSupport
          • Fine -- "usual," "customary," "common," -- whatever. sm - ChuckM
        • I stick with 2 spaces between sentences - it - makes it easier for the doc to read, (sm)
      • I simply won't do it. - Jessme
        • Me too. It's always been the standard for a - sm
        • Should have also said the BOS - Jessme
          • As I suspected! Like myself sm - MT 30+ years and running
            • AAMT/AHDI is an organization that should be - investigated for misrepresentation. (nm) Topaz
              • Yes it should be! nm - MT 30+ years and running

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