No need for standardization.

Posted By: e-MT on 2009-03-30
In Reply to: There's nothing wrong with the BOS, it's just that so many accounts are verbatim and - MSMT

It sucks the life out of the language and leads to unbearable sameness and boredom. For what? "TID" is just as understandable as "t.i.d." If standardization were somehow necessary I'm sure JCAHO would have required it long ago.

By the way, "verbatim" is not quite correct. A verbatim transcript would include every "uh", every "sorry", every "go back to HPI and add", etc. Everything.

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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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