[Spidey's mom]

I said it out loud . . . and got esophagus.

I read a true story about a boy with autism whose mom was a bit slow . . . . . she told the doctor she had a "hecter-ectomy".

steph

[Larry77]

Was helping the triage nurse one day and this patient came in carrying a Jigsaw (small electric saw usually for cutting wood) which just happened to have his finger smashed into it. The triage nurse says, "What brought you into the ED today?" The patient actually had a great attitude about the whole thing and stated, "Well Ma'am I just thought you might need this jigsaw". I was cracking up. The slip ended up saying, "Finger caught in saw".

BTW patient was fine ended up losing finger nail and maintenance had to come with their toolbox so we could get the finger loose.

[schizo_maja]

probably the patient skipped taht day in high school when the teacher is trying to teach how to spell esophagus... so he wrote it the way he would say it...

[LeahJet]

Try to guess this one:

A man I was triaging once was rubbing his right hand/wrist and said,
"Miss, I think I have the Coppertone"

It took me a couple of minutes to figure that one out.

[medsurgnurse]

Originally Posted by LeahJet

Try to guess this one:

A man I was triaging once was rubbing his right hand/wrist and said,
"Miss, I think I have the Coppertone"

It took me a couple of minutes to figure that one out.

carpal tunnel?

[LeahJet]

Originally Posted by medsurgnurse

carpal tunnel?

yep.

[LeesieBug]

Hey, it's just like playing "Mad Gab"!!!!Never occurred to me the game would be helpful practice for my career!

[SK-222]

I should start keeping a list of some of the funny things patient's have written that I get to interpret. Some that come to mind..
inersimm (aneurysm)
insefiatittes (encephalitis) <-- this was a very memorable one, probably because of the amount of time it took to decipher what was meant
and I've seen many amusing spellings of diarrhea

[chip193]

Originally Posted by ernurse61

Pt came in and wrote on her triage request "something wrong with my asolfajust" Just gotta luv trying to guess what pts are here for.

So what was wrong with the patient's asolfajust?

[sjt9721]

Originally Posted by butterflyblue

...On the form for the dr. where it asked "Why did you come in today?" He wrote "Because my wife made me."

That's right up there with "What brings you in today?" and the patient replies "DART bus" or "my neighbor's car"...