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PaulaM
I just started doing some OT/PT transcription and the therapy thing has been bugging me so I started a system. For combining words that end in -therapy, I used the first 3 letters and then "ty" for therapy. For 2-word phrases where the second word is therapy, I used 2 letters for the first word and "thy" for therapy.

adthy = adjuvant therapy
bethy = behavior therapy
brodthy = bronchodilatory therapy
chety = chemotherapy
cryty = cryotherapy
elthy = electroconvulsive therapy
ect = electroconvulsive therapy
ert = estrogen replacement therapy
fathy = family therapy
grpthy = group psychotherapy
grthy = group therapy
hrt = hormone replacement therapy
hothy = hormone therapy
hydty = hydrotherapy
hypty = hypnotherapy
immty = immunotherapy
inthy = individual therapy
methy = medical therapy
octhy = occupational therapy
phaty = pharmacotherapy
phthy = physical therapy
phyty = physiotherapy
pnety = pneumotherapy
psyty = psychotherapy
rathy = radiation therapy
raty = radiotherapy
rethy = respiratory therapy
spthy = speech therapy
supty = supportive psychotherapy

If anyone can add therapy words that I've missed, I'd appreciate it! My brain gets fuzzy working on these!

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Harrie
That seems very good, Paula! I like it!

Here are a few more I can think of; I'll try to put the abbreviation as in your system!

photy = phototherapy
aquty = aquatherapy
braty = brachytherapy
sclty = sclerotherapy
stthy = steroid therapy
agthy = aggressive therapy
amthy = amiodarone therapy
anthy = antiretroviral therapy
cothy = Coumadin therapy
hathy = hand therapy
hythy = hyperbaric therapy
irthy = iron therapy
oxthy = oxygen therapy
dithy = diuretic therapy

Not sure how you'd want to do these:
palliative chemotherapy
induction chemotherapy
salvage chemotherapy
double phototherapy

Definitely seems a very workable system! clap.gif
PaulaM
Thanks Harrie! I knew I was missing a bunch!

Anyone else have any? Please don't be afraid to jump in here.
14tonks
If you want to be sure you aren't missing anything you might need, why not go to onelook.com and enter * therapy as your search term (there should be a space between * and therapy)? That will pull up 6 pages of all the phrases ending with therapy in any of their referenced dictionaries, which include Stedmans and Dorlands, plus those found through Google. Then skim through pulling out the ones you want to make shorts for.

You might try another trick to decrease your typing time for those entries. Select and copy all the text with therapy phrases on the first page of your results, and paste into a Word document using Edit>Paste Special, Unformatted Unicode text. Copy the next page and add it to the list, etc. When done, go to Tables>Convert>Text to Table and enter . as your delimiter character to get a two column table. Click above the first column with the numbers to highlight the whole column, go to Table>Split Cells, and select two columns. All your numbers will move into the first, now giant, cell. Select that cell and delete contents. Type an = sign into the first cell of the middle column, select and copy it. Then highlight the whole middle column by clicking above it to select, and then paste. You will now have an = sign in every middle cell. You're ready to go. Start down-arrowing/tabbing through the table, adding shorts in the first column for entries you want to keep, and deleting the phrase for those you don't. When you are done, select the whole table, go back to Tables>Convert and select Table to Text, using Tabs as your separator. Select the whole document, go to Edit>Replace, and enter ^t=^t^p as your find what, nothing for your replace with, and select replace all. That will remove all the lines without entries.

You now have a text document ready to save and import into InstantText using the Formula import choice. (If using a different expander, you can modify the above directions to get whatever format your program of choice requires for import.)

Do be careful in checking what you get back from OneLook on a phrase search, as some things may appear in several versions due to spelling errors in some of the sources it checks. However, with a little intelligent editing, you can save yourself a lot of typing making up a phrase set like this.


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PaulaM
Thanks, 14tonks! Your insight and suggestions are most valuable, as always!
Anne_V
And thank you for the One Look link, Sheila! Man, could I have used that wildcard search a few days ago!

Anne
Harrie
Hi, Anne V! Welcome to PT! shake.gif

Ahh, I took a peek at your specs and see that you use 5.1 and Smartype! That's great! Always looking for more members to talk about those!

Yep, that OneLook sure is a winner!
kimr8598
QUOTE (14tonks @ Sep 7 2004, 06:15 PM) *
If you want to be sure you aren't missing anything you might need, why not go to onelook.com and enter * therapy as your search term (there should be a space between * and therapy)? That will pull up 6 pages of all the phrases ending with therapy in any of their referenced dictionaries, which include Stedmans and Dorlands, plus those found through Google. Then skim through pulling out the ones you want to make shorts for.

You might try another trick to decrease your typing time for those entries. Select and copy all the text with therapy phrases on the first page of your results, and paste into a Word document using Edit>Paste Special, Unformatted Unicode text. Copy the next page and add it to the list, etc. When done, go to Tables>Convert>Text to Table and enter . as your delimiter character to get a two column table. Click above the first column with the numbers to highlight the whole column, go to Table>Split Cells, and select two columns. All your numbers will move into the first, now giant, cell. Select that cell and delete contents. Type an = sign into the first cell of the middle column, select and copy it. Then highlight the whole middle column by clicking above it to select, and then paste. You will now have an = sign in every middle cell. You're ready to go. Start down-arrowing/tabbing through the table, adding shorts in the first column for entries you want to keep, and deleting the phrase for those you don't. When you are done, select the whole table, go back to Tables>Convert and select Table to Text, using Tabs as your separator. Select the whole document, go to Edit>Replace, and enter ^t=^t^p as your find what, nothing for your replace with, and select replace all. That will remove all the lines without entries.

You now have a text document ready to save and import into InstantText using the Formula import choice. (If using a different expander, you can modify the above directions to get whatever format your program of choice requires for import.)

Do be careful in checking what you get back from OneLook on a phrase search, as some things may appear in several versions due to spelling errors in some of the sources it checks. However, with a little intelligent editing, you can save yourself a lot of typing making up a phrase set like this.


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This is just wonderful! I did not even know you could do this with with tables!
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