Help from a medical transcriptionist please

Hi I am hoping there is a medical transcriptionist out there that can tell me what the letters after the doctors name on a letter mean.  I used to transcribe and am almost positive but need to be sure.

I know the drs initials are in caps and the transcriptionists are in lower case but do the patients initials show up at the bottom in caps as well?

Sorry I know this is not calorie count related but this is the lounge and I need to find an answer.

Thanks

I guess I'm a little confused by your question.  Is it like, John Doe, MD, or is it like, John Doe, drop a few lines and there's more letters?

I've never seen a patient's initials on a doctor's letter before.  Usually it starts out on the very top, with some sort of note, like, Re: John Doe.

If it's /immediately/ after the doctor's name, that's his "title" -- like, if he signed it John Doe, OD, then he's letting you know he's an optometrist.

Let me know if I understood your question and properly explained it, or if I'm terribly confused as well. ^^;

i used to work in a radiology office and on our reports, the patient's initials were not used in that way

it was DOCTOR/transcriptionist

MW/cp

however, it's possible another office or type of office would have a different convention for this.

I found a medical transcription forum - maybe that will help?  :)

Im sorry, you know how you know what you are saying and you don't realize that nobody else in their right mind would get it the way you are saying it?  Well I see that is what I did here. 

I am speaking about the coding (Underlined Below)after the signature line and the doctor's name i.e.

(signature)

John Q. Doe M.D.

JQD:VOG/123456789/sf

Thank  you all for trying to help me out here I really appreciated it.