Monday, August 21, 2017

Seen in a chart

As opposed to?

That's all the line said about it, folks. I didn't cut anything out.

11 comments:

Shae said...

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.

ndenunz said...

You have to admit "Lives" matters.

Jono said...

Maybe the person was admitted through the ER. You know how THEY are.

Bruce Nauman said...

This is living.

Anonymous said...

These new EMR sure are the bees knees! LOL

Anonymous said...

...the mad doctor cries as the reanimated cadaver is raised to the belfry amid bolts of lighting.

Tarquin "R.J." Toffeebridge V said...

That's the risk of hiring a hitman from Craigslist.

Susan in Dallas said...

I'm with Shae on this one. That would have been my answer if I had been asked.

Shash said...

R.J. wins.

vegakitty said...

This was in a dictation I transcribed years ago:

Pertinent 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."

Anonymous said...

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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