Re: How would you type this?



Anne Vasquez wrote:
Doctor dictates, "An NG tube was placed, and several hundred cc's of blood were withdrawn."

Not sure about the "several hundred cc's" part.

The style guides for most accounts I work on say to spell it out if there is no specific number attached.


But the style guides for most accounts I work on also say to use mL instead of cc, which is considered a dangerous abbreviation, so I would do it:

several hundred milliliters of blood was withdrawn

(I would use "was" because it was the blood that was withdrawn and not the milliliters, although I have had people disagree with me on that)
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