The following voicemail was left on my phone last night.
"Hi, Ibee, It's Rick Radar, on call in radiology tonight. You ordered a CT scan on Mrs. Confused, and it looks okay, no stroke or bleed (pause) okay, next report, chest X-ray on Seymour Phlegm, AP and lateral views, study done for persistent cough. File number 67874. No acute findings. Heart size normal (pause) next is an IVP on Kid Neestone, diagnosis is flank pain. File number 71985. Study done with iodine contrast shows a large renal stone partially obstructing the right ureter (pause) next is a 3 view cervical spine series done for neck pain. File number 37495. Normal alignment of neck vertebrae, no fractures or other abnormalities (pause) next...
He ran out the full 4 minutes of time, too. You just know he's going to be down in transcription today, wanting to know how they lost last night's dictations.
Ah yes, Suzy Frazzled's husband called you I see.
ReplyDeleteWho still does IVPs? Lets dust off the old flux capacitor and crank the Delorean up to 88 mph.
ReplyDeleteHipaa violation?
ReplyDeleteWell at least it was something interesting. The local hospital has our home phone number on speed dial for faxes and we get 'fax' signals all times of the days or nights. We would change our phone number but we've been in the phone book 23 years longer than local hospital, and so we turn the volume low and let our friends know that we let their calls go to voice-mail. If they want to inform us of anything important, just use the cell number.
ReplyDeleteSo radiologists on call don't sleep either.
ReplyDeleteResident???
ReplyDeleteYour reality never fails to amuse. lol
ReplyDeleteOh yes, and let me tell you how MUCH we in transcription love those calls about the reports WE lost that were never done in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI have one guy, a cardiologist, who apparently I have it out for because I am ALWAYS losing about every 3rd report he did. He even told the director I was deliberating losing his reports to get him in trouble. Just him, no one else, just him. Because I'm just that evil.
Anon 10:25 - same thing happened to us. We were told that they had no way of knowing which departments were responsible for the faxes and there was nothing they could do about it. I then asked what would happen if I were to connect a fax machine to my phone line and contact the people whose records were faxed to our home (HIPAA violation). The hospital administration discovered that they were able to track down the problem after all, and it was resolved that very day.
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