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Nicholas Salkilld 31 March 2023 at 11:17 am on Our 7-Mile Dive to Bottom – Part 1Just managing to get out of my sick-bed to post this before part 2 arrives. Not too many questions this
Draconius 29 March 2023 at 10:13 am on A Message for New MembersNow, they all just use DragonSpeak dictation for notes or (in my hospital) they just write in the chart with
Lee 29 March 2023 at 5:18 am on A Message for New MembersYou may be right about people over 50. A 50-year-old today was born in 1972-1973, so could easily have had
Lee 27 March 2023 at 6:35 pm on A Message for New MembersI suspect there are no medical shorthand people around any more, unless someone tracked down a very old retired secretary.
Draconius 26 March 2023 at 2:39 pm on A Message for New MembersIve made a few of my own, or just abbreviated some that I wrote often enough. Its partially just wanting
Lee 25 March 2023 at 7:59 pm on A Message for New MembersMcGraw-Hill published medical reference materials for Gregg shorthand for Diamond Jubilee. (And even that amazes me). I have three different
Elizabeth Skipper 25 March 2023 at 7:35 pm on A Message for New MembersDraconius, while it makes sense not to reinvent the wheel, for specific medical outlines you can't find, I don't think
Draconius 25 March 2023 at 5:55 am on A Message for New MembersThanks Lee and Carlos for your welcome! I actually bought the 1953 edition and just recieved it yesterday! Its a
Carlos 24 March 2023 at 11:51 pm on A Message for New MembersWelcome to the blog, Draconius! I second what Lee wrote, but be aware that the first edition of the Gregg
Lee 24 March 2023 at 8:33 pm on A Message for New MembersYou can keep an eye out for "The Gregg Medical Shorthand Manual" and "The Medical Stenographer", both by Effie B.
Draconius 24 March 2023 at 7:15 pm on A Message for New MembersI've always intended to say hi, but I keep forgetting! Y'all can call me Draconius or just shorten it as
Carlos 17 March 2023 at 11:20 am on A Message for New Members"During" is written d-r in Centennial. Also, both -gram and -graph are written in full in Centennial. But the other
lvw 16 March 2023 at 9:13 pm on A Message for New MembersLike Lee and Elizabeth, I first learned Diamond Jubilee. I agree that it, Series 90 and Centennial are very similar.
Carlos 3 March 2023 at 6:54 pm on Question about Notehand “R”Both "hurry" and "furry" are written with the oo-hook in Anniversary and earlier series. Louis Leslie changed that starting with
Carlos 3 March 2023 at 12:14 pm on Question about Notehand “R”Correct. A way of looking at it is that you only insert the e in the obscure vowel situation if
Sean Goldfarb 3 March 2023 at 12:06 pm on Question about Notehand “R”But wouldn't "hurry" be written as h-e-r-ee"? Unfortunately for me, an imaginary American accent doesn't always work for me haha,
Sean Goldfarb 3 March 2023 at 12:00 pm on Question about Notehand “R”Thanks, Carlos! I didn't get a chance to really look at your comment (or anyone of the other nice people
Lee 2 March 2023 at 6:43 am on A Message for New MembersThank you for clarifying that. I agree that Diamond Jubilee, Series 90, and Centennial really are essentially the same thing,
Carlos 1 March 2023 at 8:56 pm on A Message for New MembersI chose to write Centennial between those three because that was the last published series, and the differences between Centennial
Elizabeth Skipper 1 March 2023 at 8:11 pm on A Message for New MembersGood to know, as some of the others really have me shaking my head!Fortunately, my actual need for shorthand is