[TraumaInTheSlot]

Some ER's have patients who walk in to triage fill out a triage slip with name and chief complaint. they are always interesting due to misspellings and funny things that people write. care to share some funny ones with us?

ill go first, one girl wrote as her symptoms...."east infection"

[V. Nightingale]

My personal favorite. . . "fel like i fin to fall out". I think what he meant was that he felt a little faint. . .

[trauma_junkie1]

I have two that I like:


"Sizures" I assume that this means "seizures" although it's hard to assume because the lady was calm and not showing any signs of currently seizing or of being post-ictal. Of course, I had a pt one time who TOLD me he was currently having a seizure. "I'm having a seizure, right now." Really?

My other favorite is "Sik". Again, accounting for the spelling problems, I'm assuming sick. Although I personally thin this is a bit vague and I for one would want to put something a bit more specific down...

[Marie_LPN, RN]

One guy wrote "Week-long Case of The S**ts". Laughed so hard i got the hiccups.

[TraumaInTheSlot]

"SORE CHROAT" needless to say, he was from Brooklyn

[RNin92]

People don't write down their c/o in my ER...they tell us their problems. We still need interpreters though, and that's for those who speak English!!

How about..."my stomat...iz rall so...kaint et nutun"
Translation-my stomach is really sore...can't eat nothing

Or..."Honey, my wee-wee ain't right" (From 40-ish woman)
Oh my.

And..."my son iz REAL hurtin...hiz fing broke...iz blud all roun...iz REAL broke hiz fing...show her yur fing now cmon..."
No Ma'am...please don't have him show me here in Triage!
"waz matta wit you..iz jus his nasty ole fing!"
(She MAKES him show me in Triage)


Ahhhhh...his fingER!!!!

[imagin916]

I once had a slip that said "Has questions about enlargement".

When we called him into triage he stated that his girlfriend told him that his penis was too small and that he wanted to talk to a doctor about getting a penile implant.

[nursebedlam]

goul bladder playing up

[KRivRN]

i had a sign in slip once that said "Caesures"
weirdest seizure spellling ever!

[sjt9721]

"Vomikin"...(vomiting, I get it)

"Penis is swollen"...(and this is bad? )

Another challenge is reading Spanish...

And I must tell on myself:

Man came in c/o wrist pain. He gave me the long story about using a hatchet over the weekend to cut up trees on his property out east of the city...blah, blah, blah...(you get the idea)

My wrote a quick triage statement & sent him to Fast Track. One of our ED techs laughed as he told me about the staff guessing what the real story was. I accused them of having dirty minds, but laughed along with them after reading what I wrote:

"c/o right wrist pain after overuse during weekend"