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bloopers (forgive if they are redundant)

Posted By: Just for a laugh on 2005-08-09
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HOSPITAL CHART BLOOPERS

Actual writings from hospital charts:

1. The patient refused autopsy.
2. The patient has no previous history of suicides.
3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.
4. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.
5. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
6. On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.
7. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
8. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.
9. Discharge status: Alive but without permission.
10. Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
12. She is numb from her toes down.
13. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.
14. The skin was moist and dry.
15. Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.
16. Patient was alert and unresponsive.
17. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.
18. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.
19. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
20. Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.
21. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.
22. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
23. Skin: somewhat pale but present.
24. The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.
25. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.







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redundant, but (nm)
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Some posters are newbies. If you do not want to answer redundant
you have a bad attitude for a message board poster. Some people don't mind reiterating regarding companies. If they do, they don't answer at all (unlike your soo freaking unnecessary post).
What is your most annoying redundant speech pattern? sm
You how doctors always seem to have a pet word? They will use it until you are ready to smack them.

Subsequently. Said by an ESL at least once in every sentence and pronounced sub see QUEENT ly. He is also says Prolene mess potch and plook for mesh patch and plug.

Next...next this, next that, next, now I...

At this moment. Did you know you can start every sentence in a 2-page report with at this moment?

then
then
then

and THEN I screamed and was heard in the halls of every hospital in America.
BLOOPERS
Hey I have come across bloopers in my life, but these are even queer ones. How can it be possible. Here is a sample.

The patient was given a flu shout.

The patient has an episode of chest paint.

The patient has been having a history of DVD in her thighs.

The patient is allergic to Morphine and her relatives.
Bloopers
    Yeah I have made some of those in my days just starting out - the best was Will recheck lover in one week.  - Should have been liver - but could have been lover if you had read the rest of the report!!! 
ASR Bloopers
Here's my favorite ASR mistake:

"Patient is a 73 year-old female who fell when she stepped outside to pick up a male".

I hope that I can step outside and pick up a guy when I'm 73!

(It should have been...pick up her mail)
bloopers "decreased"
I had a friend who figured out a way to keep people from being decreased instead of deceased. She typed ded. I still use it, and it works perfeclty for me. decd is decreased, ded is - well, dead.
medical transcription bloopers
 









    118 Medical Transcription Bloopers.




  1. The patient comes in for a lesion on the penis which has been present on and off for 2 years and seems to be getting smaller.
  2. Patient comes in complaining of hoarseness. The patient apparently lives with his wife and does a fair amount of talking.
  3. The left side of his cranium is missing.
  4. He does have well-known hemorrhoids.
  5. Reflexes in the upper extremities are normal and symmetrical. Lower extremities show an absent right ankle compared to the left.
  6. I also gave her a back book to start doing exercises in.
  7. He does have a fairly high stress job and appears in the clinic with his lap-top computer today.
  8. The patient wishes to establish with a neurologist with the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
  9. She is on SEPTRA right now for a sinus infection which she was given over the phone.
  10. She has not been taking the medications that were prescribed. She notes that smoking marijuana currently helps most of her symptoms.
  11. The patient reports that since she had a colonoscopy, she has noticed some problems with her short term memory.
  12. 28 year old male comes in requesting a work release for his foot.
  13. She reports some hearing loss, with difficulty hearing her husband.
  14. She has a long history of asthma; usually she has found that this is exacerbated by being around moles.
  15. During our exam, this man was shaking: basically he was shaking his right leg when I was watching, and he was not shaking his right leg when I was not watching. According to the EMT who brought him back in to the room, when he went outside to get the man he looked completely normal, walked in unaided with no problem, sat down in the room and began shaking and having what he calls "spasms and seizure-like activity." He has good deep tendon reflexes on the left side, which he did not shake until at the end of the exam: I think he may have forgotten which side was supposed to shake and which side wasn't.
  16. Her next complaint is abdominal pain that she notices only when the wind blows on her abdomen.
  17. He describes the ear pain as being in the ear.
  18. ALLERGIC TO MORPHINE, VALIUM, AND HER RELATIVES.
  19. This is her first period since vaginal delivery of a three month old baby.
  20. The patient fell while rollerblading on his left hand.
  21. Fracture to the proximal phalanx of the right fourth toe on the right fifth foot.
  22. Multiple strains and sprains secondary to motor vehicle accident of the neck, shoulders and low back.
  23. The patient cannot touch her shoulder blade with her right shoulder.
  24. The patient was taken to the microscopic room.
  25. The pain starts right after he eats meals located around his belly-button.
  26. The patient presents for follow-up of thoracic back strain, which occurred 03/16/96 while twisting in the dishroom.
  27. Patient comes in to Urgent Care feeling concerned because at work he feels slightly confused and disoriented. At work he usually carries on 3-4 conversations at a time, and now he only is able to carry on one conversation at a time.
  28. Admits to being hypochondriacal about things recently and in fact she has had to stop watching the TV show "E.R." because she gets every symptom that she sees.
  29. Her husband had received the "husband of the year" award two years ago, but has since moved out and is living with a church secretary.
  30. The patient was standing in the kitchen, leaning against the sink, waiting for coffee to perk (drip) and a throw rug slipped out from under him and his foot hit the wall.
  31. ...has a cousin who developed curly hair after having a child.
  32. They will be following up with Dr. Knackstedt in July of this year just to check on his ears.
  33. 15 year old boy was accidentally hit with 5 BB gun shots while he was jumping on a trampoline.
  34. (Re a 5-year-old Urgent Care patient:) Active young man who is very conversant with respect to dinosaurs.
  35. The patient has a brother and sister who are normal.
  36. She will now be living with father and strep-mother...
  37. Mother comes in for consultation re beast-feeding her infant.
  38. She has actually not felt well since her daughter was born three years ago.
  39. About 8 a.m. this morning was the last time she had an inhalation.
  40. She reports that, since the auto accident, the pain in her low back is much improved.
  41. She has had two flares of the previous sinus tract I identified. She states it is related to having sexual intercourse, and since stopping that she has had no further problems.
  42. She fell and hit her left forearm against a rock which remains painful and swollen today.
  43. He sustained injuries to his forehead and face when he fell from his glasses.
  44. I recommended to mother that she get an over-the-counter ear removal preparation.
  45. 48-year-old male with left index finger laceration which occurred 45 minutes before he presented to the Urgent Care department on a piece of glass.
  46. She gets headaches with her migraines.
  47. I recommended MIACALCIN, 1 puff in each nose on a daily basis.
  48. ...and has two cousins identical to her father...
  49. He also has external hemorrhoids, which he says he likes to keep to himself.
  50. ...he is seen today with his daughter Judy; but I guess not with his boy Elroy.
  51. Healthy-appearing child with upset mom.
  52. She also complains of pain in her right ankle. She says she is not sexually active.
  53. The patient complains of low back pain. She is able to move all of her legs.
  54. The patient reports a fatal reaction to IODINE in the past.
  55. The patient wonders if she can fly as far as her ears.
  56. She was also given an in-the-ear hearing aid whose patient was a husband of ours.
  57. She was the diver of a car going approximately 25 MPH...
  58. The patient was given Dr. Davis' car and instructions were given to him to follow up with Dr. Davis within the next week.
  59. FAMILY HISTORY: Significant for a half-brother of unknown origin. Past medical history is significant for a basal cell carcinoma on her head which was removed recently.
  60. After a suicide attempt, the patient was given a choice of admission to the Johnson Unit or vacation with her sister.
  61. He has been monitoring his blood pressure. Does not drink. Does not use much soap.
  62. She will lie down, feel a bit better, cook her husband's breast, then her own breakfast, eat, still feel tired and no energy until after lunch.
  63. She is 15 years old. Chronic runny nose for 20 years.
  64. Stepped on a TETANUS SHOT.
  65. He has some concern about chewing on vacuum tubes when he was an electronic repairman as a child.
  66. Eat before the meal.
  67. He did develop perianal skin irritation with some skin rash extending out onto his bucket.
  68. She has had 3 pregnancies, 1 liver birth and 2 spontaneous abortions.
  69. I plan to see her in two weeks and reassess her injured parts.
  70. She apparently has had a cold for several weeks, but just started to turn green the last couple of days.
  71. Husband is somewhat negative and difficult to live with. She is not interested in a trial of medication for this.
  72. She did suffer loss of consciousness and was told by a chest x-ray that she had a lung contusion.
  73. The patient has not been using METROGEL because it was too drying and her face peeled off in chunks.
  74. She has had surgery when her husband was in the Navy for hemorrhoids during a pregnancy.
  75. She does admit to bruxism with what few teeth she has.
  76. She smokes one glass of alcohol per week.
  77. . . . concentrated on chest, abdomen and all four lower extremities.
  78. He was evaluated in the Emergency Room where he broke some ribs.
  79. The patient has complaints of problems maintaining an erection for over a year.
  80. Despite both standing and lying down, I was unable to demonstrate a hernia.
  81. The patient had a trial of PROZAC on which he became violet.
  82. Examination of the remaining hand is within normal limits.
  83. The wound is doing fine, without complaints.
  84. She is not clear on why she has seen me in the past, but states that whatever I treated her for had cleared up with whatever treatment I had given her.
  85. Exam demonstrates a chile who is modestly febrile.
  86. Basically what happened is she hit her right knee against her chin, biting her tongue causing her neck to be thrust to the left. Now she has pain in her left arm.
  87. He is employed as electrician but does not really remember any specific incidence which could have precipitated his hemorrhoidal problems.
  88. The patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
  89. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.
  90. The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983.
  91. The patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.
  92. She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December.
  93. The patient left the hospital feeling much better except for her original complaint.
  94. Because of her complaints we gave her an endoscopy so she could look into the problems she is having.
  95. The patient complains of post-coital spitting.
  96. She now wears a 42, cup size 8 bra. She may ultimately be a candidate for reduction.
  97. She was the belted driver in the back seat.
  98. He does want the TV louder than his wife.
  99. The patient was found to have an extremely small facial nerve for the size of his body.
  100. This is a 48-year-old white female black lady.
  101. 19-year-old vehicle involved in a female accident.
  102. When not inebriated, we have always found David to be a delightful and cooperative person.
  103. Elderly male, seeking physician with hearing deficit.
  104. Otherwise, I have recommended rechecking in a few weeks just to make sure that the ear is completely gone.
  105. She has breast-fed the baby with frequent loose stools.
  106. She was the driver of a car that was seatbelted and turning left . . .
  107. She did have a female sister who committed suicide.
  108. Apparently the next day she developed this rash on her hands, and the feet had gone away.
  109. Would like for mom to contact me in about a week to seven days if it is not a lot better.
  110. "It should be noted that from now on ________ will be weighed with gown and panties only.
  111. At work yesterday, she was lifting a 5-gallon bucket of pain.
  112. Last time he ate was about 8 hours ago when he had a bowel of cereal.
  113. She was seen at Sacred Heart emergency room last night for an episode of profound weakness and lightheartedness.
  114. She is under some increasing stress in her household due to the presence of three teenagers.
  115. His appetite, as far as his parents are concerned, is probably normal in terms of volume, but he is the worst eater of the mother's children.
  116. A 78 year old woman told her PCP "I just KNOW I have BEGONIA".
  117. This man says that he thinks he has a sinus infection. Recently, he laughed with his mouth full of lasagna and got some of it up his nose.
  118. This man was seen by me a month and a half ago and got over it.
    Forwarded from Frieda Norris.

 
You talk about medical bloopers at a party
nm
Bloopers can be posted on the Comedy board.
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VDI call-in system sounds much better than digital recorders and easier tracking with redundant hard
You can hear a pin drop on this system. The sound is that clear. The system has a redundant hard drive and auditing capabilities. It has the capability to do everything but transcribe it. The better the sound file, the faster you can transcribe. I purchased a call-in system that used digital recorders, and the sound was so bad that I ordered this one the same day. I wasted $1200 on that system. Get the analog that uses a VDI SuperStation or C-phone (the C-phone is more clear). Even though the technology is not as new as the digital recorders, in this case it is better. Good luck!
Forgive me...
Perhaps I'm missing something here, and if so, I apologize.  I run a service.  If you transcribed for my accounts, you wouldn't be an IC; you'd be a SC.  That being the case, nine cents is a good rate given reasonable clarity of the dictators and other factors involved, which are many.
Please forgive me if this has already been said...
I have worked with women involved in domestic violence for the last 15 years. You can call the local police deparment to find the domestic violence advocates in your area. There are shelters where you and your kids and stay. I believe each state may vary on how many days you can stay. These shelters for the most part are secret. The advocates have ways of helping you make a plan to move out safely. They can help you get a potection order, got to court, etc. In the protection order you may request your husband move out. But please keep in mind a protection order is only a piece of paper and doesn't mean your husband won't get upset and break the protection order. The advocates can also be a wonderful support system for you. I hope this will help you. (800) 799-SAFE this is the domestic violence hotline and they can put you touch with someone in your area. Also this website is good...http://www.dvpsh.org/ Just click on "getting help" and there are tons of numbers listed where you can go for help.
Forgive--SM
after 10 years of marriage, it happened to me too. We divorced, but only because he wanted to be with her more than he wanted to be with me, which is fine...now. It hurt alot at the time and anger ruled my world, but you cannot hold onto that. The only person it hurts is you. You have to move forward instead of staying stuck in the rut of anger and hostility. I forgave him, after the fact. Not that he deserved it, but because I had to let it go...for MY sake. Everybody makes mistakes. Perhaps marrying me in the first place was a mistake. Who knows? But I am happier now...alone, but happy. Hopefully he is too. I did love him, and hating him now would only hurt me, not him, or what he did. Let it go.
Forgive me
Yes I know what HIPAA is - it kept me from visting a friend in the hospital last week. I understand what the person is saying - i don't understand the concern by someone other than an American - you can just ignore my comments if you don't agree or if you feel i am ignorant. this is an open forum - and i abide by the rules - so i feel that i can speak my mind or someone else's if i choose. but thanks for the concern that i am ignorant - that's really one more thing we don't need here - is more ignorance.
Hee hee! I can forgive them nearly anything
if they apologize to me for it. Means they know I'm alive.
Forgive me...sm

but when I first saw your post, I asked myself...is this a joke?  Then I read it again and I realized what you were after (I only read the tagline).


I have been an MT for 12 yrs or so and I have used the same expander, same library for 10 of those years.  I would not still be an MT if I had not had someone turn me onto an Expander and insist that I use it.  As I recall, I was doing about 100 to 115 lines an hour without the expander and with a very few (about 300) autocorrects.  (I started using an expander that came with a library of about 13,800 terms and began to tweak it.  I have more like 20,000 now.)  I went past 150 lph within about 2 weeks, over 175 in a month, over 250 the next month and then I did spend about 4 or 5 months reaching for 300 lph with the expander.  I didn't get faster than that for some time because other things needed to catch up...like my "ear" and my working knowledge of medical terminology. It took time because I also was not maximizing my expander and I am still not sure that I am truly maximizing it.  I could make better use of it, I am sure.  I work full time and for the past 9 days' worth of work I have 16,000 lines and still need to work one more day this week.  Without an expander, I would not have half that.  I am just not that fast of a typist, but I am expander whiz.


There is a free expander around and it used to be this site that had it, but it isn't any longer.  I have a library I am happy to share, but you'd have to put my 20,000 terms in by hand because it does not have a converter. 


Please forgive me .. all people who
live in the South are not cut from the same cloth.  I have been watching this for a week now and my heart breaks each and every time I see the images on our TV not that far from where **I** live.  I was lucky to come from good circumstances, and yet I was taught as a child to NEVER put one person above another and that our good fortune could leave for any number of reasons.  This storm took a national treasure and dessimated it because the federal government did not allocate the monies needed to make a jewel of a city safe for its residents and vistors.  I really love living in Florida out of the snow and the winters I cannot ever forget, but I guess that Florida in essence represents many of the ills in our society because now it is a melting pot of many people from all over this country and Europe too who come here to enjoy weather and sun.  We are destroying this state too in the name of progress and to me, when you wreak havoc on nature .. eventually you pay for it.  The universe is about balance and we are ruining it.  Humanity is about basic human principle and we have forgotten them.  We police the world and we dictate how people should live in our image .. and yet it is tarnished by so many ridiculous things .. like not being willing (because we are certainly able) to care for our own.  We are products of our environment and the precepts we were taught as children.  My mother and I had many differences while she was alive but I can look still to her and feel pride in what I was taught as a child and I thank her in times like these that she was such a good mother to us and made us understand what is right and what is simply unconscienable.  And, lastly, in times like these should we quote Montel Williams or should we go a bit deeper than that and wonder what Jesus is thinking of us now?
No problem, we forgive you.
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Forgive me, but isn't that kinda mean?

Besides, my friend has the "collar" for her yorkie and the dang thing yaps right over it. The way I did it with my dog when he was a pup didn't make him "afraid" of barking (knowing he'd get zapped). He just learned that we did not like it when he barked.  He also doesn't jump up on people unless I give him the okay and he does NOT lick people. EEEEW.


I didn't rely on gadgets with my dog.  I trained him with patience and rewards.  Works every time and makes a heck of a better dog.


If you're going to zap a dog when he barks, why not just kick him?  The "correction devices" are only made for people that don't want to bother to spend the time.


 


No I would not. That is the 1 thing I can not forgive.
I told my husband that if he ever cheats I will cut his gonads off - and I mean it. Infidelity is one thing I will not tolerate or live with.

My take is - don't make an A**hole out of me. If that is what you want, tell me and then go to it. Sneaking aorund and everyone in the world knowing what you are doing before me is a bad mistake. If you want to be with someone else - that is fine, just tell me first. I will have less of a problem with that rather than lying to me and sneaking around. I think you all get what I am trying to say.

So, no I would never forgive such behavior or forget it. I also told my husband that will be the one thing I will divorce him over and take him to the cleaners.

Other than that, we are happily married.
I think I could forgive..but not forget.

If either him or I cheated, the trust is gone in the marriage.  I think I would forgive him (not right away) as he is the father of my kids and I will always have a relationship with him whether married or not, but I I think at that point, the marriage would be over.  That's what marriage is to me, loyalty to each other.  I would say he feels the same way.  I can forgive anyone, it's just my nature, but I don't forget.


Forgive me if you misunderstood..
I agree that you must be a fast typist in order to make a decent financial living. I just do not think that speed should be placed above accuracy just for speed sake. Speed comes with knowledge, knowledge is obtained by looking over your reports and transcribing correctly.
You might, but some recruiters might not forgive that
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Forgive me if this is old news.

Came across this article tonight; while it comes to no conclusions, it's interesting nonetheless.  Especially where an executive from a national MT company calls his at-home MTs "overpaid housewives."


http://health-information.advanceweb.com/common/EditorialSearch/AViewer.aspx?AN=HI_07jul30_hip12.html&AD=07-30-2007


 


Forgive me if you have already attempted this, but
there are certain doctors I speed up very fast and believe it or not I actually understand them better. Others I slow down and have the same affect.

Not to be insulting but have you tried this, do you have easy access to the speed?

Best of luck and you may not believe it but sometimes you can pick up more skills with the more difficult dictators...I started that way with a supervisor (it is funny now but was not then) who gave me every difficult (terrible) dictator for an entire hospital, and it only made me better...
Sorry about the typo - forgive me
Sorry for the typo . . .
forgive me - you said REALITY show....sm
well only Extreme Home Makeover was contributory in my post...sorry, I'll read slower next time...
Forgive me, but I'd think the phone book would be SM
the proper resource for a local clinic - didn't you look in the phone book? For the doc, you can google. I work for hospitals in three other states and I have to look that stuff up all the time. You're supposed to use the resources you have, without having QA tell you the obvious. Just my opinion.
Forgive the last message, but WHAT do I have to do to make 40,000
a year.  After 18 months at 0.07 cpl with appx 1200 lpd, I am SO frustrated.  What a I doing wrong?  TIA
Forgive an ignorant question

What's a gross line?


Stupid, I know.  I really don't know what that is, though. Thanks.


forgive the stupid question, but....
I've never had to deal with this before. There is no way IC's can collect unemployment, right?
I admire your ability to forgive and hopefully this will all blow over - however, that being said,

please make sure that Animal Control did not list this as an "incident" so that it may not be used against your dog in the future, even if no charges were filed.  A lot of states have a strict "no bite or 3 bite" policy and would not want this to count against your dog later in life.  My brother-in-law's dog bit a child when it got tangled up in her bicycle wheels (granted she should not have been that close to the child in the first place), so we've learned to be very careful about our animals. 


poll: Would you forgive your husband if he cheated?
Assuming you have children and assumming he seems remorseful, would you save the marriage?  
oops. It copied three times. please forgive.
the first few paragraphs should be enough. Don't know how that happened. sorry.
Forgive the typos in post above. I'm tired. nm.
NM
Lord forgive me for saying this, but at the start of this, they interviewed her roommates on CNN, I
think. Maybe Fox. At any rate, the girls were rather "smug" about it all, said that Natalee was quite taken with this Dutch kid and had basically "dumped" her friends the last 2 days to hang all over this guy.  When they were asked what was "so special" about him, they said that Natalee was quite flattered that he was paying attention to her, as he was considered the "#1 Catch On the Island"...So, that certainly explains why her friends weren't "covering her back". She had ditched them more or less to be with Romeo.  Happened to me a lot in the "old bar hopping days" with my girlfriends.  One would hook up with some total stranger, and just dump the rest of us "singles" for the night.  Luckily, they all lived, though we did have a scary encounter now and again, this being in Southern Florida.
One late check, I'd forgive, but the 2nd and I'd on my way to the Labor Board. (nm)
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Forgive me, but WHAT do I have to do to ma00 - FLmt (Views: 6, 2007-07-04)
nm
OMG, you FORGIVE Walmart shoppers? Are you nutz. Did Walmart
put an over-priced small business owner out of business. What is your PROBLEM?

I see old people who would otherwise not have a job smiling and happy with Walmart. I see undereducated people who do not look employable working at Walmart. Walmart employs millions of Americans who may otherwise be on public assistance.