Friday, July 9, 2010

Alrighty, then

From another doctor's note:

"His father, mother, and all of his other parents died of cancer."
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12 comments:

  1. OMDGJuly 9, 2010 at 2:26 PM

    Parenti in Italian means "relatives." Maybe that's what they really meant?

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  2. Captain FoulenoughJuly 9, 2010 at 3:16 PM

    He grew up in a commune so everyone was his parent. The commune was located under high-tension power lines, over a pool of cadmium, downwind from a nuclear reactor. In the commune they all smoked, used cell phones constantly, and ate lots of burnt bacon.

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  3. Kimbra KaschJuly 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM

    Wait...what's the problem with burnt bacon...?

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  4. LyonheartJuly 9, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    Aw - you made me laugh at a Bad Thing. It was a real guffaw too, none of that nambypamby lol stuff. I need to go and pray now.

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  5. ERPJuly 9, 2010 at 5:12 PM

    Hippies?

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  6. AnonymousJuly 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM

    STEP parents?

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  7. JoAnna WahlundJuly 9, 2010 at 6:37 PM

    Child of polygamists?

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  8. AnonymousJuly 9, 2010 at 7:55 PM

    biological parents
    adoptive parents
    foster parents
    step parents
    god parents
    host parents

    any more?

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  9. AnonymousJuly 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM

    Did he mean the in-laws? Maybe grandparents? I give up. . .

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  10. AnonymousJuly 9, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    Maybe the patient is an oncologist and the note should have said "patients" . . . gosh, I'm terrible! I'm going to have to join Lyonheart now.

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  11. AnonymousJuly 9, 2010 at 11:42 PM

    The doctor meant "relatives"?
    I thought you may appreciate this story. This is from my home, the province of Alberta, Canada, which is very wealthy due to that tarsands people love to hate. Edmonton is the capital of Alberta and home to 1 million people, not some tiny rural town.
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/07/02/edmonton-cross-cancer-chemo-reynar-dies.html

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  12. medrecgalJuly 10, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    And they wonder why there are times when those of us in medical records tear our hair out in utter frustration trying to make sense out of the notes...LOL!

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So wadda you think?