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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Welcome to my whining!
This blog is entirely for entertainment purposes. All posts about patients, or my everyday life, or anything else may be fictional, or be my experience, or were submitted by a reader, or any combination of the above. Factual statements may or may not be accurate. I could be making all this up. I may not even be a doctor. The only true statement on here is that I probably drink more Diet Coke than you do. A lot more.
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Annie: My Phenomenal MA
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Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
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Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
20 comments:
I concur!
Not sure if that's a patient's vitals or carpentry measurements.
97.6, 64, 16, 144/65, 98%
At least this doc included punctuation. Vitals are lot harder to read without it.
i get that three of them are temperature, blood pressure, and O2 sats, but what are the other two? 64 might be age? What's the 16? <<< totally not a medical person but I play one on TV
If the visit was predominantly counseling than little to no physical exam is necessary. In reality, this is true for many visits but since getting paid for doing what is needed isn't really possible, docs document perfunctory physicals all the time.
So kudos to this doctor for not documenting unnecessary stuff(if that is what happened, don't have the rest of the note to be able to make any determination)
Temperature: 97.6; Heart Rate: 62; Respirations: 16; Blood Pressure: 144/65. Got it. What is 980?
Lottery numbers, like in fortune cookies?
Which one is the patient's salary?
"Body an 8, face a 3."
last number is (likely room air) Saturation ( %), as no supplemental o2 is documented. However, this habit of limited (and substandard)) information is why the chart police (billing, coding twins) started the dreaded capture form bullets, then EMR.... with has more useless data ... but that is another rant
As a student nurse, if this was my note, I'd get remediated for incomplete assessment, incomplete charting, unsafe practice, not to mention poor handwriting. This is BS and it's half the reason I spend hours looking over every chart I deal with just to make sure I'm reading everything correctly--that "62" for heart rate with a comma could just as easily be a "64" without, and while in this case it's not particularly problematic, what if it was a lab value? a medication dose? Those are real problems that can cause real issues.
For privacy protection, all patient information must now be illegible and incomprehensible in order to be HIPAA-compliant.
@Anon 2:45
That made me laugh out loud. Thankfully I wasn't drinking anything at the time.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
In the interests of patient privacy, all chart notations will now be made in sanskrit.
Did she live?
64 - Heart rate
16 - Respiratory rate. Everyone, unless dead or hyperventilating, must have a respiratory rate of 16. It's the law.
Guess someone didn't have a piece of scrap paper, or the back of his hand was already covered.
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