Monday, April 6, 2015

Beware of the Dragon

Seen in a hospital chart:



12 comments:

  1. Contracted via high-risk aural intercourse.

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  2. Do the AIDS help or hinder the hearing capacity?

    On another note, it's a nit-picky pharmacist conundrum ... when the directions are 'place one drop in BOTH EARS', does one take the dropper and attempt to divide the single drop between the number of ears evenly, to 'place one drop in EACH EAR'?

    This is an equally tricky question about eye-drops. Sometimes the matter is resolved by specific guidance of the prescriber in the manner as such by ordering the placing of a drop of medicine in only the affected afflicted area.

    Sometimes these direction DO need to be spelled out clearly on the label. How often, as a medical student have we been advised to remind the user to 'remove the wrapper' before placement of whatever where?

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  3. from listening to assholes.

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  4. Ear-AIDS my eye.

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  5. And yet that same parent company will dock their MTs' pay by about half for a typo in a patient's first name.

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  6. Obviously phone sex isn't risk free.

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  7. To anonymous med student @11:17

    Back when I worked retail at a drug store, I had to process a return of Preparation H suppositories. Reason for the return: they were sharp and hurt her husband's bottom. I shouldn't have opened the box. Inside was a horribly mangled suppository, still snugly inside the rectangular tinfoil and plastic wrapper. I still feel bad for that poor man.

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  8. Is he positive about that?

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  9. Anonymous 12:30pm, oh my word, I can't even imagine how much that had to hurt, did you break the news to them that had the poor man followed directions, his bottom wouldn't be so sore. Still, poor guy, Ouch!!

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  10. That sounds uncomfortable. I've seen a patient with gonorrhea in his throat, but I don't think this is quite the same thing.

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So wadda you think?