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Psychiatric dictation help please

Posted By: MT50 on 2007-10-24
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Subject: Psychiatric dictation help please

Dictator states very clearly "The patient is allergic to erythromycin and tetracillin." What is that???... mixture of tetracycline and a cillin drug??? This is a new one on me HELP!


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Subject: RE: Psychiatric drug help please

I am probably not correct, but I thought about Etrafon -
A shot in the dark (?)

ETRAFONŽ Preparations
Schering
Amitriptyline HCl - Perphenazine
Antidepressant - Antipsychotic

Indications And Clinical Uses: The treatment of patients with anxious or agitated depression. Particularly indicated in patients with depression associated with marked psychomotor unrest and anxiety. Etrafon has also been used in some schizophrenic patients who have associated symptoms of depression and in depressed patients suffering from marked agitation, anxiety and tension, which may respond to a phenothiazine agent.


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Subject: is this a psychiatric report? If so, probably


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Subject: S/L psychiatric CONVICTION services.

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Subject: psychiatric counseling services? sm

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Subject: psychiatric terminology question

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Subject: I need some assistance on a psychiatric term please. sm

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Subject: Thanks for all the help, but none of these are fitting with his dictation.


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Subject: cannot hear dictation..

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Subject: Hmm after reading the dictation again, you may be right...sm

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Do you have more of the surrounding dictation? NM
Subject: Do you have more of the surrounding dictation? NM


No, sorry. That is all I can think of without hearing the dictation.
Subject: No, sorry. That is all I can think of without hearing the dictation.