Those meds with X and Z drive me nuts!!! nm

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I hate it when the doctors/PAs prounounce diabetes MELLitus as diabetes mellITUS like it's some kind of inflammation or something. 

From Dorland's.com:

diabetes mellitus (di″ә-be´tēs mel´ĭ-tәs)  

Good grief - you're a highly educated person.  You should know how to pronounce the medical terminology and medications.  Sorry.  Just tired and crabby todayd. 

It always used to be tendonitis, now the change.

And you say extend/extension so why not distend/distension?

When I first started transcribing again after a hiatus of about 15 years, I had to put "distension" in my AutoCorrect so that it would automatically change it to "distention" until I could get used to it.

Can someone tell me what a "pacing drive train" is?

"Atrial extrastimuli were introduced, beginning with pacing drive trains of 600."

I have tried every possible spelling of this word, med. dictionary, google, webmd. I can't seem to come up with it.

Sounds like:

Synchrostyberticulum

The context doesn't give much away either.  One is the problem list, one is the past medical history, and one is:

There is a history of ... and he had a PEG placement.

Not even sure if the two go together, LOL, she tends to run her sentences together.

TIA for the help!

SG

I was taught to never change a transcription, even if it's blatantly wrong.  I would leave as dictated and leave a note for the doctor (if you have a place to do it)

First typed it back in 1970s. Then again in the 90s and the doctor used all abbreviations. Almost lost it that time!!!  They all have their little "docisms". keratinaceous is used by a lot of them. For real!!!

If the QA is insisting ".5" after weight instead of "1/2", wouldn't they also insist on typing "A 2.5-year-old child" instead of the obviously correct "A 2-1/2-year-old child?"  It just doesn't jive with me on some level, but then again neither did Aqua-Net hairspray.      

It was not a medication, rather an "environmentally friendly" fly repellent used on livestock and pets.  Here's a link to one of the product sites I found it on:
https://www.smartpakcanine.com/productclass.aspx?productClassId=1518&GCID=C11284x040

They no longer use the Clac name and have since renamed it Deo-Lotion.

I'll be interested on hearing what you finally find out about your patient!

(s/l-Kaylor-) and (s/l-Theosol-)

Here is the PMHX and other meds tp is on..

Past Medical History:  Hypertension, rheumatic fever age 12, osteoarthritis of the knees, temporal arteritis.

Medications:  Lexapro, Topamax, Nexium, metoprolol, Caylor, Fiasol, prednisone 5 mg for temporal arteritis, Neurontin 300 mg for controlling her periauricular pain after the biopsy, Xanax 0.25, baclofen 10 mg for her neck, OxyContin over the past year and a half 20 mg for her knees. 

List of meds, not sure if she is stumbling over this:  s/l Adicade

Patient has Lupus and anemia. 

quinapril   are there any other meds that sound similar to this one?

Also - s/l hymobidine or imobadine?

Thanks!

list of meds: there are two s/l below, I am not sure about. Thank you.

Lasix, Fosamax, calcium gluconate s/l 'orphen', isosorbide, atenolol, folic acid, quinapril, omeprazole, B6, s/l 'icap', Lipitor, and terazosin

s/l depavir 250 mg po q. h.s.         s/l esparda 1 mg po qd