YEAH! Thank you! I feel so DUMB!

• pinpoint O or 0?? I have no idea. - Thanks!
  • pinpoint - pdqtrans
  • says trach site almost closed with a "pinpoint 0" s/l - nm
    • lol...definitely not fertility... :) sm - flybye
  • IF this has to do with fertility, then use the numerical symbol Ŕ" (zero) nm - flybye
    • post was corrupted, should have been " 0 " ...any more info? nm - flybye
    • Actually it is a geriatric patient....lol - nm
      • may be saying pinpoint hole (size of opening left) ? nm - Txczech
        • YEAH! Thank you! I feel so DUMB! - mind in overload!
          • We just try too hard. Dumb is what I do best!!! nm - Txczech
            • Why do I stress over something so small and - make it seem so big that I
              • Know what you mean!! sm - Txczech
                • Like when they say "period" or "paragraph" and you - *hear* some big fancy medical term! Insane!

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what is the correct way to type blood pressure into the "one teens"? systolically...

thanks!

At the risk of sounding dumb, I need to ask this as it happens quite often.  Math was always my worst subject in school... Dictation  states pt is on a half mg of something.  For example "spironolactone 12 and a half mg".  I know they want me to type it as a decimal rather than writing out the words.  Is the proper way to write this 12.5?  (Does .5 equal a half mg?)  Thanks! 

Since he didn't say it as you did, does saying "larges" constitute shorthand in doctor speaking?

Thanks!

sure did s/l pan though! I didn't think pan CT made any sense and couldn't find a reference, but I wanted to be sure.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate the help!

pt is scheduled for a "colectomy takedown and reanastomosis" I guess I'll leave it as she says it. I thought maybe she could have been using the wrong term and meant "colostomy takedown" or it could have been "colectomy, takedown, and reanastomosis" like the pt was going to have another colectomy.

Thanks so much for the help! And just in time, too, I'm just about to send in the report. Much appreciated!

too funny!!!  You're correct!!!!   

Of course, I was just taking *a guess* - because I don't know a *y* - and I just based my response on the 2a the OP typed.....but thanks for adding to the helping fun part of all this

I love it when you look and look and then find it. 

Yeah. I know. 21 of the 25 doctors I routinely transcribe are ESL. It's challenging, to say the least. I was just hoping that someone would recognize the sounds. (I know that sometimes I can, even when reading what someone else heard.)

I blanked it. Will report back if anyone cares.