Doctors' Chart Bloopers

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SERIOUSLY?!?!?!

Hahahaha well this is definitely entertaining!!

If one of these charts becomes an evidence for a legal case......... I COULD only imagine!

I've had 3 patients whose grandmothers died of prostate cancer.

In the ER, an expect note said a patient was in "dandy condition." I was dying to see if he was wearing a monocle, top hat, and cane.

Another doctor ordered an HGB (pregnancy test) on an 86-year-old woman.

Hgb is "hemoglobin." HcG is pregnancy.

*~Jess~*

Not a "blooper" at all, but a true order (yep, my patient)

On a young male with a penile implant: "apply ice to balls prn"

This was during NS and my CI would ask me during the day if it was time

This isn't a blooper but still funny. I was looking up something in the doctor's orders on a patient that had been in the hospital for about six months.

The hospitalist had ordered a consult for geriatric med and put the reason as:Is this patient ever getting out of here?

Fit and well on invalids' benefit.

That may be, but this thread is still going strong in '09! lmao! just shows that nurses have been saving drs butts for 10 years now!

hahah...thanks for sharing...these are too funny.

How about "Put patient to bed with Happy ending."

Lol. This was for an alzheimer's patient, they MEANT to leave the room on a positive note.