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Medical transcriptionist here! I could fill pages and pages of funny things that are typed.
Keep in mind that some hospitals and facilities use voice recognition to do the majority of the typing. And that is the cause of lots of errors. My favorite mistake of ALL TIME was when the patient had a "baloney amputation". That's what the voice recognition typed. LOL
Also, we all use text expanders and a lot of times the errors occur when we select the wrong expansion.
But thank you for acknowledging that the doctors don't always make it easy on us! It's not always the accents that get us either. One of the WORST doctors that I work for is American with no accent whatsoever. He's soley responsible for my gray hairs.
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I use a voice recognition software for the reports I have to type, and I worked with this one therapist that whenever I said her name, the software always reported back "still busty". I trained and trained that program to learn it the right way, but it still always called her "still busty". Funny thing is, I think she mighta had a boob job. LOL
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Medical transcriptionist here as well! I edit voice recognition and see funny errors all the time that I have to correct. My recent favorite is when the voice recognition typed "the patient's name is crack addict!" What made it even more funny was that the patient was in for a polysomnographic study to find out why he wasn't sleeping.
As to the benign prostatic hypertrophy in the echo, my best guess is that the dictator said LVH (left ventricular hypertrophy) and the transcriptionist hit the wrong expansion.
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I was reading through an H&P prior to my pt's surgery, and found a note that made me laugh to the point of tears. The surgeon dictating the note has a very thick German accent.
"Pt discharged home with hot mother."
I showed the note to the surgeon and he turned white. He said, "Oh my. I said discharged home with HER mother!"
Priceless!
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I think I posted this in another thread but it fits here too. Doctors monthly progress note for hemodialysis pt was supposed to read that "pt currently using buttonhole on right upper arm fistula". The note that is in the chart says "pt currently using BUTTHOLE on right upper arm fistula". We laughed about that one for a while!
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Medical transcriptionist here as well! I edit voice recognition and see funny errors all the time that I have to correct. My recent favorite is when the voice recognition typed "the patient's name is crack addict!" What made it even more funny was that the patient was in for a polysomnographic study to find out why he wasn't sleeping.As to the benign prostatic hypertrophy in the echo, my best guess is that the dictator said LVH (left ventricular hypertrophy) and the transcriptionist hit the wrong expansion.
I suspect you have that one right - I had no idea you folks used such sophisticated technology. I come from a bygone era and I sort of pictured earphones and a keyboard just typing it out - but it does make sense in today's world there would be technical aids for the volume of stuff that gets done.
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Years ago, I taught medical terminology, and I would read thru charts to find errors. Looong before HIPAA!!! Some of my favorites - - pt c/o horseness x 5 days. Or diarrhea spelled 3 different ways by the same med student.
Or positive pedal pulses on a bilat BKA.