Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Is she a person? A tree? Both?

From another physician's note:

"During the seizure she was shaking all her limbs, as well as all four extremities".
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 11:40 AM

    My goodnes, what a technical medical description!
    CP

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  2. MattFebruary 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM

    redundant

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  3. BarbFebruary 23, 2010 at 12:30 PM

    Yeah. Redundant and he said the same thing twice.

    my word verification is "barbi". Huh

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  4. Cthulhu SashimiFebruary 23, 2010 at 1:16 PM

    Maybe it was her:

    http://drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com/2009/11/medical-malpractice.html

    Two in front + two in back = 4.

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  5. StudentDocFebruary 23, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    Perhaps she's an octopus?

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  6. Cathy DFebruary 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM

    As a MT this bothers me and makes us all look like idiots. I personally would never let a dictation go like that!

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 8:27 PM

    I see this all the time. The thing is that I'm reading first/second year med student notes...(I volunteer at a med student run clinic.) The latest was:

    client's stress related to stressful stress living situation

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  8. LoFebruary 23, 2010 at 8:29 PM

    A person?.......a tree?........how about an agitated barn animal?

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 11:18 PM

    Maybe there was an itinerant sneeze or missing punctuation? ...during the seizure, she was shaking in all limbs as well (Aaachhhooooo) ..as in all four extremities? Hmm. Aachhhooo!

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  10. JeremyFebruary 25, 2010 at 1:16 AM

    Is this not a HIPAA violation? It's obviously Octo-mom.



    Oh, 8 kids, not arms and legs. Carry on.

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So wadda you think?