Monday, December 14, 2009

Why use your brain when you can buy an EMR and look like an idiot?

This is from a patient note that another doc faxed to my office this morning. The only things I've whited out listed the patient's pharmacies.


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14 comments:

  1. The DuchessDecember 14, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    Was the patient sent to you for jaw pain?

    *snicker*

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  2. PinkDecember 14, 2009 at 2:31 PM

    As a medical transcriptionist, I cringe when I see these EMR entries. WTF? Oral and oral? Um...p.o. perhaps? It doesn't even specify the dosage or frequency!

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  3. GB, RNDecember 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM

    So, am I to assume that this patient takes oral meds??

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  4. Doctor DDecember 14, 2009 at 4:53 PM

    Perhaps this is computer-talk for "takes by mouth twice daily?"

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  5. The Emlesc ManDecember 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM

    I think I have "Allegra Oral and Oral" on DVD.

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  6. student dr. blazeDecember 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM

    EMRs are always programmed by people who know nothing about medicine. It's totally counterintuitive. I ended up basically having to re-program the one at my last job because it never printed what the surgeons wanted it to say. If I saw this, though, it'd be way too tempting to program it to say Oral and Anal. ;-)

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  7. mommy-medicDecember 14, 2009 at 8:52 PM

    Nystatin oral and oral? Forgive me if i am mistaken, but isn't that a "swish and swallow" med? (Or mouthwash type med?) And you take it........orally? Opposed to rectally? *scratching head*

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  8. MomNurseWifeDecember 14, 2009 at 9:09 PM

    Wow...there's a whole lotta oral going on in that office....

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  9. Nurse KDecember 14, 2009 at 10:23 PM

    I read "oral" so many times in that entry that I think I need to take a shower. Don't ask.

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  10. Slings and ArrowsDecember 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM

    This is obviously the medication list for Zaphod Beeblebrox.

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  11. student dr. blazeDecember 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    re: MomNurseWife ... i can't resist: the programmer must have an oral fixation. ;-P

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  12. Filet-o-bitch RPhDecember 15, 2009 at 12:01 AM

    What if it said "anal and oral"? Just curious...

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  13. AnonymousDecember 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM

    Where can -i- get a perscription for that much oral?

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  14. FizDecember 15, 2009 at 9:22 AM

    If she's got candida, then take her off the ruddy Pill!

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So wadda you think?