Monday, August 19, 2019
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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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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.
6 comments:
The only thing I can think of is that is a trifecta - in the wrong place, has a missing comma and is bad English. One possible interpretation, and there is certainly more than one, might be "Has not been tested for HIV, has declined testing". And who carries the can for taking decisions on the basis of that case note entry? Back in the day, when I took the ECFMG exam and later the VQE, I had to take and pass tests of my ability to comprehend the English language. Perhaps a test of the ability to communicate in English ought to be incorporated in the USMLE...
My frustrations with medical documentation are many.
I am getting so sick of reading the chart-spam that EMR checkboxes and fill-in-the-blank fields provide, like this.
Another thing, almost as bad, is stuff entered by old doctors who can't type, and are under enough time pressure to not go back to fix their typos. So you have a "sentence" that is like six abbreviations, most of them nonstandard, and one spelled-out word with a typo in it.
And then there is any admission note written after 0300, which is probably a pack of lies and guesses that will make you look like an idiot if you rely on any aspect of it the next morning. :/
Gees, what is so hard Google it already!
I think it is gibberish for "A history of not being tested for HIV is a contraindication," or in English, "Do not give this treatment to someone who has not been tested for HIV." But that implies it's in the wrong place on the form, out of context.
I took it to mean the patient has not been tested for HIV because it is contraindicated for them for some reason not given.
It's time to be tested!?
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