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.
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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.
:smackingf 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.
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Post as many as you wish and as often as you wish, I will include more as I come across them. Enjoy.
During a nursing 2000 rotation I shadowed a L&D nurse. She had a 15yo patient in labor who called her in and screamed... "MY STUFF HURTS" the nurse wrote that on the chart verbatum then called the doc and said "I think you need to get down here, her stuff hurts."
I went into the ER once having a miscarriage. I tolf the Triage nurse why I was there... he asked why I thought that. I showed him a foot (i had pulled it off thinking it was a blood clot inside me...loooooooooong story) he said ok.. go have a seat and Ill get you a bed. 6 hours later I got that bed and the doc came in asking what was wrong. I told him i was having a miscarriage... he said why do you think that.. I said because the baby is now in my pants. I was pissed. Later, I snagged my chart and read it.. the doc wrote " patient presented with a baby in her pants... suspected miscarriage" You think?
Oh how horrible!
I know someone who had a miscarriage many years ago. The doctor delivered the fetus in the Emergency Room cubicle then chucked into the trash can right in front of her.
a doc...that had been EXTREMLY busy one day (in his defense)...charted on a female pt that...'has no ED'...he laughed then went and told the pt about the error and they chuckled for a few minutes...we still tease him today!!
NatKAt, in their defense, they were very cordial once i saw the doc. they took the baby and put it in a 2*2 tray and covered it with gauze.. they asked if i wanted to see it and left me alone to say good bye for about 5 minutes. They then took the baby to pathology by hand for a necropsy.
I went into the ER once having a miscarriage. I tolf the Triage nurse why I was there... he asked why I thought that. I showed him a foot (i had pulled it off thinking it was a blood clot inside me...loooooooooong story) he said ok..
Wait, sorry, am I understanding correctly? Are you saying you pulled a fetus' FOOT out from inside you?
If thats true, I dont know what I cant believe more, that, or the fact that you posted that.
'ulcerative cooties' errr colitis. Quite a few others that I can't remember, as I used to work as a QA/Medical transcriptionist and had to edit the reports angily corrected by the (often rightfully) baffled ER practitioners.
yeah i had been pulling clots out for a couple days, and i thought one was in there again, so i reached up and pulled but it wouldnt come, so i pinched, and I pinched off a foot.
yeah i had been pulling clots out for a couple days, and i thought one was in there again, so i reached up and pulled but it wouldnt come, so i pinched, and I pinched off a foot.
How very awful for you. And then the ER staff's behavior, even if they were nicer later...So sorry.
OK- man comes into ER via Medic w/ head lac. Ask man what happened and was told I got hit w/ a smoovie. I am a very caucasian girl so I ask my friend in Security to come and translate. I again ask the man what happened and he repeated I got hit w/ a smoovie and the security guard crack up. Apparantly- a Smoovie is something you use to smoove out your clothes. A stupid iron!
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NurseRoRo
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Had a doc who used to call the floor to warn about her direct admits. Dx? "FOP." No, not Fraternal Order of Police.
She was a gastroenterologist....Full Of Poop!!