Friday, April 13, 2012

Do they pay you by the word?

Last night I was looking through a hospital chart, and discovered this in another neurologist's note.

"The patient has had an electrical dysfunction of the cortex, resulting in abnormal neuronal discharges. The resultant signal propagation caused generalized tonic-clonic muscular activity."


Dr. Grumpy's translation: "He had a seizure."
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17 comments:

  1. Wayne ConradApril 13, 2012 at 7:28 AM

    I can abide neither hyposyllablification nor extra redundant words.

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  2. OldSquidApril 13, 2012 at 7:54 AM

    If you cannot use big words, then why go to medical school for four years and do a residency for another four. Otherwise he has a knack for politics since that requires complicating the trivial and simplifying the complex.

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  3. CApril 13, 2012 at 8:15 AM

    word

    Seriously, you'd think he had too much time on his hands.

    Note to wordy neuro-sometimes less really is more.

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  4. AnonymousApril 13, 2012 at 8:18 AM

    He must be one of the best five neurologists in town.

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  5. PackerApril 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    I think he must have been one of the 5 good neurologist in Grumpytown

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  6. hoodnurseApril 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM

    Maybe the extra billable hours spent dictating all this words are like a little bonus every month.

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  7. ERPApril 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM

    He be fittin'!

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  8. mary bethApril 13, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    do you treat "abnormal neuronal discharges' with antibiotics?

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  9. Whelk Lad!April 13, 2012 at 1:59 PM

    Ah, the old "stretch out a high school term paper" trick. How big were the margins?

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  10. gloria pApril 13, 2012 at 2:21 PM

    I guess you just have to keep practicing jargon or you'll lose the ability.

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  11. AnonymousApril 13, 2012 at 6:23 PM

    I wonder if he just got plain fed up with all the bureaucratic mumble jumble that you have to deal with, and decided to do a little mumbling-jumbling of his own.

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  12. AnonymousApril 13, 2012 at 8:14 PM

    mary beth- i use kleenex

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  13. JanTinkApril 14, 2012 at 11:08 AM

    As a transcriptionist, I would love to transcribe for this doctor. Then maybe I could finally get that yacht....

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  14. AnonymousApril 16, 2012 at 5:32 AM

    Seems more likely to me that the doc was the one who had the seizure.

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  15. JackdawApril 17, 2012 at 12:55 PM

    Janine, you'd be able to get a big yacht, not like the little ones poor people have.

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  16. AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM

    ...
    Oh! eLECTRICAL dysfunction. Thought that was an 'r'. That makes much more sense.

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  17. AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 11:43 AM

    i gave up studying to be a teacher coz i can't make up incredibly redundant sentances like that. graphic design on the other hand preferes a picture over useless words... O.o

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So wadda you think?