Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Seen in a hospital chart

Helluva long week.


8 comments:

Mary said...

Hey, I think I have had those. Now I just consider that baseline and go on.

Ms. Donna said...

Ouch

Anonymous said...

Were they trying to refer to episodic cluster headaches?

a.generic doc said...

It sounds like they've been talking to my patients.

Agenericdoc: How often do you get headaches?

Ms. Migraine: Once a week.

Agenericdoc: How long do the headaches last?

Ms. Migraine: Oh, about a month or two.

Anonymous said...

I.e. Grumpy brainwashes his patients to 'occur' at his rooms weekly. Good for the cash flow.

Anonymous said...

I think medical charts could use a bit more figurative language...

Patient's breathing was as shallow as his gene pool.

Skin was as pale as the ghost he kept claiming to see.

Heart rate soared like an eagle over a mountain when I brought out the needle...and then dropped like a plane out of gas when I said the injection couldn't go in his arm.

No reason for medicine to be dull...

Anonymous said...

Exactly like an episode of "Two and a Half Men."

bluetoothbuddha said...

Anonymous @ 3:41 PM,

When I was working at an ER in Scotland, I once got an apologetic call from a GP (primary care physician) on a Sunday who wanted me to see an old dear with chronic cervical spondylosis. She obviously didn't need the emergency consult, but was apparently quite persuasive.

So to get rid of her (and go back to his golf, I guess) the doctor sent her to our ER with a note that said, "Thank you for seeing Mrs. Spurling, with a chronic pain in the neck."

And he had crossed out the 'with'.

 
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