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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
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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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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.
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.
14 comments:
Gotta love those EMRs.
Well, that isn't very helpful, is it? The insurance folks may use it to deny eligibility for rehab care - the neurological exam is completely normal, so why would he need PT and OT and ST to try to regain some ability to function.
Since those reviews are done by not very skilled folks, the sentence saying 'completely normal' will jump right out as clear and understandable...the rest of that other stuff is just doctor gibberish, you know.
"Some people see the patient as half-paralyzed. I prefer to see him as half-unparalyzed."
VOTE FOR BERNIE
Both the patient's speech and the doctor's note are gibberish and incomprehensible.
lol
Sounds like a description of your typical retail pharmacist.
I would be LOL at this if it wasn't likely to lead to a bad result coverage-wise for the patient, as previous commenters have noted.
I would assume that a patient could indeed be alert and oriented although hemiplegic and unable to speak coherently. But yes, that could be worded much more effectively for the likely eejit at the insurance company who will be reading it and deciding on what to approve.
Sounds like a left-side brain issue. Whose left side?
Always look on the right side of life.
So I'm assuming it's the doc who has the left side hemiplegia and the patient is alert & oriented x 3. Right?
quick recovery.
Can the notes for two entirely different people ever end up on the same chart?
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