I can't help but go "hmmmmm"

Posted By: NocturnalMT on 2009-03-28
In Reply to: long time MTs opinion on BOS sm - MT 30+ years and running

All of a sudden one space after a period, no periods necessary between 'MD', etc.

I dunno, in my mind just another way at the end of the day to cheat us out of characters. I can't begin to add up how many spaces after a period are in the average report. It doesn't seem like much until you start adding it all up at the end of the day.

Sometimes I seriously think their 'style' changes are just ways to make us earn less while working harder.

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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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