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medical blunders
Posted on 06/16/09, 04:23 amRectal exam revealed a normal size thyroid. (Long fingers?)
The patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce.
Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant.
The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed.
The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
The baby was delivered, the cord clamped and cut, and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried immediately.
Exam of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.
I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
The patient lives at home with his mother, father, and pet turtle, who is presently enrolled in day care three times a week.
Bleeding started in the rectal area and continued all the way to Los Angeles.
Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation. (Excuse me, what are you doing with that pen light?)
She is numb from her toes down.
Exam of genitalia was completely negative except for the right foot. (Anatomy review time!)
While in the emergency room, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.
The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead. (An empowered patient.)
The patient suffers from occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.
Coming from Detroit, this man has no children.
Examination reveals a well-developed male lying in bed with his family in no distress.
Patient was alert and unresponsive.
When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.
We will follow her eyes and nose with a foley catheter.
By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was feeling better.
Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.
The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983.
The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
Discharge status: Alive but without permission.
Healthy-appearing decrepit sixty-nine-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
The patient refused an autopsy.
The patient expired on the floor uneventfully.
Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.
The patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant, with only a forty-pound weight gain in the past three days.
She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December.
The patient had a rash over his truck.
Dictation blunder: lasar radar response (as opposed to vagovagal response).
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Reply #1 06/30/09 6:49pm
It's no wonder I tend to write novels instead of just notes on my case sheets. -
Reply #2 07/28/09 8:53am
with a case sheet like that no wonder im crazy lol -
Reply #3 10/22/09 6:47pm
It's so fantastic to read those lines! Quite a relief to know I'm not the only one who finds wording a bit difficult... I'm sooo happy for the sheets we're filling out. I tend to end up writing things that probably sounds wierd to others but you can't just write "she stumbled in a blanket on the floor" - you've got to assume she did even if the injuries tell you in logic even how she fell ... -
Reply #4 11/21/09 7:37pm
Over here they now check in the ward before surgery and mark it with a pen. They started this after a man had the wrong leg amputated by mistake, so still had to have the other done, another went in for an op and they did a vasectomy instead. Ask you to repeat name and why before knocking you out if possible to check they have the right files. My sister has an ongoing problem with the last. Two patients with same name, different address. Both were tested for a form of cancer, unfortunatley they gave the results to wrong people, and one of them was a bad result and went to my sister. Meanwhile the other is happy because she came back good afterall, acording to report. This has happened a few times bretween them with things. No doubt happens to others with same name.
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