I'm picturing a grumpy old lady in chronic pain on a regular check-up with her Primary Care Physician. The nurse asks "So what's your living situation?". The lady growls "I'm alive." The nurse takes the hint and figures it hasn't changed since last month and plans to copy that over later. EMR probably won't actually let her, but I'm still picturing this.
I'm picturing a grumpy old lady in chronic pain on a regular check-up with her Primary Care Physician. The nurse asks "So what's your living situation?". The lady growls "I'm alive." The nurse takes the hint and figures it hasn't changed since last month and plans to copy that over later. EMR probably won't actually let her, but I'm still picturing this.
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit "Lives" matters.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the person was admitted through the ER. You know how THEY are.
ReplyDeleteThis is living.
ReplyDeleteThese new EMR sure are the bees knees! LOL
ReplyDelete...the mad doctor cries as the reanimated cadaver is raised to the belfry amid bolts of lighting.
ReplyDeleteThat's the risk of hiring a hitman from Craigslist.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Shae on this one. That would have been my answer if I had been asked.
ReplyDeleteR.J. wins.
ReplyDeleteThis was in a dictation I transcribed years ago:
ReplyDeletePertinent Clinical History: The pain.
The doctor then said in a puzzled voice, "That's all it says."
The hospital computer system was full of things like that. Here's another one I saw: "Frost bute, pes planus." Also "colonoslopy."
I work as a medical transcriptionist. One sentence I regularly have is ... he/she lives at home. Really? At home? I never would have guessed!
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