Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Language

While on call this past weekend I discovered this line in another neurologist's note:

"An ictal event is possible, and cannot entirely be excluded, however our data to implicate such process definitively is somewhat tenuous at this point in time."
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17 comments:

  1. staceyMarch 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM

    Obviously has commitment issues...


    southgeek.blogspot.com

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  2. AnonymousMarch 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    Sounds like he should have gone into radiology

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  3. PackerMarch 6, 2012 at 10:38 AM

    Aspiring lawyer

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  4. SuFu PhDMarch 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM

    and the med student reading that note blinks 3 times, shrugs and assumes he means the patient if f----ed.

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  5. webhillMarch 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM

    Too funny. I too was gonna say sounds like a radiologist.... the only thing missing is "please correlate with clinical findings and follow up with additional studies as necessary."

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  6. Liz 2March 6, 2012 at 1:54 PM

    Good Lord, sounds like an overzealous freshman in their first college writing course.

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  7. ronstewMarch 6, 2012 at 2:35 PM

    = "Maybe, but probably not."

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  8. brentMarch 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    aspiring politician.

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  9. Mari-AnnMarch 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM

    I get dizzy when I go around in circules.

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  10. AnonymousMarch 6, 2012 at 5:52 PM

    Or, as a surgeon would say...
    r/o sz.

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  11. RehabRNMarch 6, 2012 at 7:13 PM

    Is he getting paid by the word? Why do some people have to be so wordy, and say the same thing over and over.

    Diarrhea of the medical record...yuck!

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  12. AnonymousMarch 6, 2012 at 10:34 PM

    I've read it three times and still don't know what he or she was saying.

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  13. a.generic docMarch 6, 2012 at 10:41 PM

    Is there any patient you couldn't say that about?

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  14. AnonymousMarch 6, 2012 at 11:27 PM

    Eh, what was that?

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  15. medrecgalMarch 7, 2012 at 7:55 AM

    Hearty laughter here from the medical records person, particularly at the contrast between the content of the note in the post and the comment from Anon 4:52 above. I've seen both kinds of notes from providers, and they each have their place, I suppose. Sometimes too much information is as bad as not enough.

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  16. AnonymousMarch 7, 2012 at 5:41 PM

    Of course, we know it really translates to: "this wacho really isn't having seizures but I don't want to write that he is a nutjob in the chart"

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  17. CayaMarch 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM

    S/he's saying that the ictal event is possible, can't rule it out. But that as of right now, there's not enough data to make a firm ruling on it. I didn't find it hard to understand at all. *sigh* sorry, just drives me nuts.

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So wadda you think?