Why do nurses use "c" for "with"?

[Alan_Smithee]

@Qadgop the Mercotan

f/u prn.

I don’t know what this really means, but I’m going to start putting it in my (non-medical) notes at work. Most of my clients need a good “f/u” every now and then!

[Waenara]

@Alan Smithee

I don’t know what this really means, but I’m going to start putting it in my (non-medical) notes at work. Most of my clients need a good “f/u” every now and then!

f/u = follow up

prn = as needed

[Cub_Mistress]

If you do happen to see the notes written in your file, “SOB” just means “short of breath,” it’s not any judgement on your personality or your mama.

[Malacandra]

@brossa

Please justify the use of “[sic]” in your post.

If you had a Nissen Fundoplication, you’d feel sic too.

Or else the poster meant “yes, there really is such a procedure”.

[Koxinga]

@Qadgop the Mercotan

Probably something like “S: pt states 3 yrs ago had penile shaft injected c unknown substance by practitioner of dubious credentials to ^ size. Since then, c/o pain c erections only, decreased sensations. Can void urine s problems, no d/c or hx infections. Would like substance removed, nl appearance restored. O: skin of penile shaft diffusely enlarged along entire length, from below glans to mons, c sl pitting on compression, s urethral obst, s skin breakdown, erythema, or d/c. T B desc, s hernias or ing nodes. A & P: s/p cosmetic penile enhancement surgery, no indications for intervention @ present. Pt educ re reconstructive urologist, elective procedure, p d/c from inst. f/u prn.”

Notes tend to be fact-based. My fuller thinking was delineated in my thread on the topic: My patient’s bizarre penis

Thanks. Jollies fulfilled!

[brossa]

@Malacandra

If you had a Nissen Fundoplication, you’d feel sic too.

Or else the poster meant “yes, there really is such a procedure”.

Well, at first I thought that Sprockets was objecting to the capitalization of “fundoplication” as being incorrect; one might expect a transcriptionist to be hypersensitive to such issues. But then I was struck by the irony of a professional using a jargony Latin abbreviation (orig. sicut) in a thread complaining about professionals using jargony Latin abbreviations. I believe that EVERYTHING in regard to the reader should be accessible to the reader and “directed towards” the reader.

I thought that this must be a whoosh on some level, but I wasn’t sure, so I asked about it.

[NajaNivea]

Forget ( / = bar) /c and /s, I want to know why half the medical dictionary is abbreviated with the first-letter + x convention. /c, /s, /a, /p, those I get, and I even know the story behind Rx… but just off the top of my head: Sx, Dx, Tx, Hx, Cx, Fx, Bx, for symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, history, cervix, fracture, and biopsy?