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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (3949)	6/16/2004 11:33:39 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Jack, It's always good to hear from you. A two-week hospital stay is a mighty long one. I trust you are proceeding uneventfully down recovery's road. Actually, the company where I work and the hospital(s) for whom I transcribe want me to fix grammar misspeaks, but with ever so light a touch; i.e., the subject and verb should agree, tenses should match, the age and sex of the patient should remain consistent throughout the report, things of that type. If information is dictated which might identify the patient, I am not to transcribe it. However, if "lac" is dictated for "laceration," or "dig" is dictated for "digitalis," "lac" and "dig" are what I type. (I had to ask the upper powers how "lac" and "dig" should be spelled.) If "actually" is uttered every three or so words, I am to type every "actually" that is uttered. If heretofore forbidden abbreviations are dictated I am to type those abbreviations--even unto "PE" and "UA." The only exceptions to this are that if "DC'd" is dictated, "discharged" and "discontinue" are always to be written out or expanded. I guess I had best not get started on those who swallow syllables, words, and sometimes whole phrases, never quite actually saying them. <obligatory grinny> I have long been acutely aware of the liability issues driving verbatim transcriptions, but still I cringe as these errant strings of pixels appear on my monitor. On a personal note, I believe that listening to and transcribing this gibberish is having a deleterious effect on my ability to write properly. Factor in a spellchecker, macros, and hotkeys, I sometimes think I am sliding backwards and flirting with the fringes of illiteracy. On a lighter note, Subject 55004 We hope you will come. Every SI get-together I have attended has been great fun. Best regards, Holly