Medical Transcription Word Board archived thread

is it okay to leave it this way, verbatim account
nose anesthetized with cocaine cotton soaked pledgets 4% (nm)
Sat Sep 18, 2004 15:34

Me
Re: nose anesthetized with cocaine cotton soaked pledgets 4%
Sat Sep 18, 2004 15:45

Better --> nose anesthetized with 4% cocaine, cotton-soaked pledgets

boobie doo
I'd put a comma between pledgets and 4%. JMO (nm)
Sat Sep 18, 2004 15:45

Paula
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Sat Sep 18, 2004 15:47

I might put: cocaine-soaked cotton pledgets, 4%.

Otherwise it looks like the pledgets are soaked with cotton or the cocaine is cotton..... cocaine-cotton-soaked pledgets......