[NoMoreStudying]

My mother, who has a master's degree, still says people "catch an ammonia." Also, the Taliban is in "Afaghanistan." Like the blankets people crochet, "af-a-ghans."

My favorite triage slip was simply, "lage." Luckily, he still had both of them.

I just had a young guy tell me he didn't remember the MVC b/c he was unconscious. We explained he called his dad and was walking at the scene. Still, he insisted he was unconscious after the accident. Fine.

Later, I ask him if he's remembering anything yet.

"No, I'm still unconscious."

[Jezziemis]

hahahahhaa these are all sooo funny!!! Keep them comming!

When I use to work in the pharmacy I dont know how many times I heard " I'm here to pick up my 'hypercodine' or 'Amanacilling" (hydrocodone or amoxicillin) It was even worse when they handed us there hand written version of drug names.

[ritarunningfeet]

Sometimes its not just the spelling it is the acutal complaint

Just the other day had a guy whose icd was firing. His complaint when asked was " I was sticking it to my old lady, when I burnt her arm." Had to do all I could to try and not bust up laughing in front of the pt.

[LeahJet]

There was something someone posted on another thread a while back but I thought it was hilarious.

"I be disappearin' and $hit"

Also, I had a man tell me that he took "GlueControl" for his sugar.

[julia1]

Got one for you guy's. I worked at a doctor's office in W. V. doing phone triage A lady called and stated " My child has been poisoned" OH MY GOD!!!!!!" I was asking all about the " poison" like what did he ingest and how much? The lady laughed and said that he got the " poison by playing in the field" Okay you know now it is poison ivy.

[Myxel67]

You know the way we run words together when they start with the same sound, or divide 2 words up differently?

I'll bet your mom has been saying "a pneumonia" instead of "an ammonia"
Nowadays we have a cold, but we have pneumonia. When I was a kid my grandmother would say "It was so cold, I caught a pneumonia."

"an apple" sounds like "a napple" There are lots more, but my mind is blank now
"an affadavit" is "a naffadavit"

:Melody: :Melody:

Originally Posted by NoMoreStudying

My mother, who has a master's degree, still says people "catch an ammonia." Also, the Taliban is in "Afaghanistan." Like the blankets people crochet, "af-a-ghans."

My favorite triage slip was simply, "lage." Luckily, he still had both of them.

I just had a young guy tell me he didn't remember the MVC b/c he was unconscious. We explained he called his dad and was walking at the scene. Still, he insisted he was unconscious after the accident. Fine.

Later, I ask him if he's remembering anything yet.

"No, I'm still unconscious."

[NoMoreStudying]

nope, she truly say "an ammonia."

[DutchgirlRN]

Originally Posted by jellybean_1

esophagus

You're good. I was think about the other end of the body.

[nurse4theplanet]

Originally Posted by NoMoreStudying

My mother, who has a master's degree, still says people "catch an ammonia." Also, the Taliban is in "Afaghanistan." Like the blankets people crochet, "af-a-ghans."

My grandmother adds a "K" to the end of the word -mart! It drives me crazy! "WAL-MARK, K-MARK!" No matter how many times we correct her, she just doesn't understand the difference.

[postmortem_cowboy]

Originally Posted by ann945n

Discharge Instructions- repeat high school and learn to spell

OMG that is too flippin' funny! hahahaha.

My favorites are the parents that bring in the peds patients with a temp of 104, you fight to get it down, discharge them with children's tylenol and motrin instructions in their hands, and they're back the next day with a kid in febrile seizures saying "oh the nurse yesterday didn't say anything about any medication."

OK I couldn't resist sharing this one since everyone's sharing their humor stories. Worked in ER with a great doc, pharmacy calls one night wanting to verify a script he wrote, so I hunted him down, after he gets off the phone he's telling me he always wants to talk to them if they call, and personally. I guess a few months prior the pharm called about a script he 'wrote' and wanted to confirm it.

1 lb mofeen

was the script that was altered from black pen to blue pen.

Gotta' love the idiots sometimes.


Wayne.