Examples of Dr. Frank Chen phrases
Transcribed: No tenderness of the joint lines.
Dictated: No tenderness over the joint lines.
Transcribed: discomfort upon McMurray’s and ______test.
Dictated: discomfort upon McMurray’s and figure-4 test.
Transcribed: Well-looking male/female
Dictated: Well-appearing male/female
Transcribed: No evidence of lower leg chondral pathology or collapse.
Dictated: No evidence of overlying chondral pathology or collapse.
Transcribed: with mild ______.
Dictated:
with mild maltracking.
Transcribed: with no history of _______knee problems.
Dictated: with no history of prior knee problems.
Transcribed: can be _______to neutral.
Dictated:
can be corrected to neutral.
Transcribed: There is some tenderness noted.
Dictated:
There is significant tenderness noted.
Transcribed: No ligamentous laxity appreciated with no _____otherwise.
Dictated: No ligamentous laxity appreciated with no focal neurologic deficits otherwise
Transcribed: He is able to make _____ with no rotational abnormalities on both sides.
Dictated: He is able to make a full fist with no rotational abnormalities on both sides.
Internet References
Intranet for samples and Sport’s Medicine Website:
1. Transcription Operations Tab
2. Internet Reference Lists
3. Orthopedics/Sports Medicine
4. Select Orthopedic Surgery Reference.
This will lead you to e-medicine (WebMD). This is a valuable Sport’s Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery
site with very detailed information broken down by body part terminology. By clicking on the terminology
you will instantly get a description of the anatomy/disorder.
Another website that you might find helpful is located at www.About.com at
http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/orthonews/l/blglossary.htm. If you paste this to your browser it will
bring up a very helpful orthopedics glossary. There is a glossary that pops up with alphabetized
terminology. Once you click on the terminology you are looking for it will take you to a full definition and
fully illustrated example with other related words/topics/articles.
Orthopedic Books
1. Dorland's Orthopedic Word Book for Medical Transcriptionists.
2. Dictionary of Orthopedic Terminology.
3. Stedman's Orthopaedic & Rehab Words (Stedman's Word Books.)
TIP: Any one of these books I think would benefit any MT greatly. You might try finding this books on
E-bay or Amazon.com. You can obtain these cheaper than a bookstore and you have the option of buying
used. On my search I found many for less than $20.00.
Internet Search Tips
Google. This is my basic site for most searches. It’s easy to use and fast. But there are some things to
watch out for and some tricks you can use to narrow the search. The main thing to be careful of is spelling.
The address for the engine is www.google.com.
Number of hits: This is a number shown in the upper right hand corner of the page after a search is done as
“results.” If you enter something that should be fairly common, but get few hits on it, then it is probably
misspelled or missing something. Use this number to get an idea of how valid the word you used in the
search is and whether you want to try something else.
Spelling: If a site out there has a word misspelled the way you entered the spelling, you’ll see hits (or
results). Again, use the number of hits to guide you and, when in doubt, verify on another site (such as a
dictionary). A major risk is a site that uses the British spelling (you’ll get a lot of hits because there are a
lot of British sites), so double checking is advised if there is any question. An example would be
“haemoglobin.” This is the British spelling but, of course, we use “hemoglobin.”
Narrowing a search: Many people don’t realize that you can narrow a search by “marrying” words together
on Google. If you enter two words in the search without any punctuation, you will get hits for every site
that contains those two words (even if they aren’t together). An example would be if you enter: acute
myelogenous. I get 226,000 hits for that. However, if I enter: “acute myelogenous” (with quotation
marks) or acute-myelogenous (with the dash separating them and no spaces), then I get 143,000 hits (still a
large number). This is because on the second one (with the words “married” together), it only shows hits
for sites that have the two words together and in that order.
This can be useful in several ways. First, it will give a true estimate of how accurate the phrase is (by the
number of hits with the words “married”). Also it can give you the third (or fourth, etc.) word if you get
part of the phrase. For example, in our words above (acute myelogenous), you can scroll down the hits and
see that most have “leukemia” following it. You can then listen to see if that’s what you hear and go from
there.
OneLook: This is a great site. The address is www.OneLook.com. One thing Google doesn’t have is
“wildcards.” But OneLook does. The wildcard is the asterisk (*). Use this when you are missing a portion
of the word (be it the beginning, middle, or end). The site is not an actual dictionary itself, but rather an
engine that guides you to other dictionary sites that contain your word. This includes medical terms,
medications, place names, and most everything except equipment names (like retractors, etc that you will
hear in surgery). Please note: There are no spaces between letters and the asterisk.
Examine 32
Examine32 is a fast and versatile text search utility.
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Search any type of file. Text files and Microsoft Word, rich text format (RTF), WordPerfect, PDF
(Acrobat files), HTML (web pages), XML, and StarOffice, OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony files
are specifically supported.
Search files within ZIP archives.
Return a list of findings with file details, the selection highlighted in context, and line number.
Save your search results to disk and retrieve them at a later date. Your search is by default saved
You may download this at the Intranet under Current Headlines for free.