mycrofft
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As shown by multiple threads and in everyday reading experience, and due to the absence of a central naming authority, we use a hodgepodge of acronyms and casually throw them about like as though they denote "creds" and as if the rest of us all understand them to mean the same thing (collectively and individually). Often I just read on hoping the context will reveal all, while I scratch my head and say "Huh?".
Can people PLEASE follow standard manuscript form to spell out certain acronyms? Not a new rule, but just folks spelling an acronym out the first time it is used in their reply or post, or if it was not used in the original post.
Maybe a list of commonly agreed upon (not mandatory) acronyms can be stickied by the site managers pertaining to the site and made somehow readily available? Examples: OP (original post/original poster), pt (patient), etc.
And a special case: with each private training company, state and EMSA's penchant to invent new types and titles, perhaps someone can make a chart of what the titles mean. (Maybe I'm old and grumpy, but why did EMT-A[mbulance] and EMT-P[aramedic] really need to morph or accrue their cousins, EMT-IV, EMT-I, EMT-B, WEMT, EMT-XYZ?).
Can people PLEASE follow standard manuscript form to spell out certain acronyms? Not a new rule, but just folks spelling an acronym out the first time it is used in their reply or post, or if it was not used in the original post.
Maybe a list of commonly agreed upon (not mandatory) acronyms can be stickied by the site managers pertaining to the site and made somehow readily available? Examples: OP (original post/original poster), pt (patient), etc.
And a special case: with each private training company, state and EMSA's penchant to invent new types and titles, perhaps someone can make a chart of what the titles mean. (Maybe I'm old and grumpy, but why did EMT-A[mbulance] and EMT-P[aramedic] really need to morph or accrue their cousins, EMT-IV, EMT-I, EMT-B, WEMT, EMT-XYZ?).