[doctordefender]

What are some of the more unusual, amusing, scandalous, and funny symptoms/diagnosis you have come across? Include any strange, comical, odd, outlandish, bizarre, humorous, weird, phonetically written, miswritten, misspelled, misunderstood symptoms and diagnosis or any that you just plain like.

Any websites or books on the subject that you know of and could post would be appreciated as well.


One funny one I came across was ‘Pain in the A**’, the ER clerk was either sick of dealing with patients or didn’t like dealing with this particular patient. I suppose ‘L buttock Pain’ wouldn’t have been as fun.



A classic one I enjoy is ‘Can’t Read’. I don’t know why, but I always think this is a funny comment to put in. I suppose ‘illegible’ is too difficult to spell and again isn’t as fun.



Here’s a weird one I came across, ‘Knocked out by Pan’. Not sure if that meant he was hit by his wife with a frying pan or he was boxing with the mythical little pipe playing half man half goat, Pan. Either way I love coming across the symptoms that make me do a double take.



Post as many as you wish and as often as you wish, I will include more as I come across them. Enjoy.

[McGyverRN]

I had a pt who's diagnoses was "ILL." I bet the insurance company loved that one.

[Indy]

An older, now deceased, much-beloved physician in our community used to write obese people's diagnosis as "biscuit poisoning."

[NYNewGrad]

The female who came in with prostatitis...

[my2sons]

"...plan is to work the patient up for Perry Carditis..."
Obviously a dictation error, but sometimes they are the most fun!

[Chaya]

Kinda OT but recent admission's meds included "hepatitis 5000 units sc"!

Eek!

[Meerkat]

I recently had a parent telling me the child's medical history, and she said that when he was little he had a 'grandma' seizure.

Also had a lady come in for her 'Depo Primavera' shot.

[doctordefender]

A good test confusion I have patients say a lot is I've got to get my pneumonia level checked, referring to an 'ammonia' test. Although the purple top on ice is probably cold enough to catch pneumonia. lol




Thanks, these are gr8. keep em coming.

[jillyk*rn]

While in the ER, I always like the teenage girls that come in with tummy pain.
Woops. Yes dear...you are pregnant. Yes, I know that you haven't had sex before, never the less, you are about to push out a baby. No, I won't tell your mother who is standing outside the curtain, but I believe that once the baby cries, the jig will be up.

[goats'r'us]

we had a lady in for 'multi-trauma' - she'd fallen over. had a small lac on her forehead and a grazed elbow.

we also had an elderly lady whose admission diagnosis for the first week of her stay was 'to be advised' came in (you guessed it) in granny-dumping week - the week leading up to christmas.