Favorite, Fun, Weird, and Scandalous Symptoms and Diagnosis...

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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. :yeah:

Specializes in Psych.

Shallow Gene Pool

Specializes in Psych.

morphine deficient

Nursing supervisor told us about this one:

Guy comes into ER with a tick imbedded in his member. Doc was sitting with the chart, and she heard him say to himself "Sure, why not?" When he gave her the chart, the diagnosis he wrote was 'tick on d...'!!

Specializes in Cardiology.

"Heart Problem" (yeah, we're gonna get reimbursed for THAT one!)

"Dead Battery" (for pacemaker generator change-out. What, we need a Sears Die-Hard?) :trout:

A C.N.A. asked me if she could get off early because she was throwing up "dial" , I thought she meant the soap. She looked at me confused and said no I have gallstones.

Specializes in Med-surg; OB/Well baby; pulmonology; RTS.
Nursing supervisor told us about this one:

Guy comes into ER with a tick imbedded in his member. Doc was sitting with the chart, and she heard him say to himself "Sure, why not?" When he gave her the chart, the diagnosis he wrote was 'tick on d...'!!

:roll :rotfl:

Specializes in Rural.

We just had the husband of a patient give us a follow up on one of our patients that we transferred to ICU. He told us that ever since she has been weaned off the vent she has only had one spell of dyslexia. (dyspnea)

what is failure to thrive? They are using it now in old people.I always thought it was for babies. Now it is a hospice diagnosis. I got a fact sheet with this as a diagnosis....LOL ,92,lives alone,FTT,NIDDM.A/0x3.

Specializes in psych.

We had a new resident admitted with dx of MRDD and jump from 3rd floor window ... what's the ICD9 code for that?

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

For his assessment of a newly admitted stroke patient who was obese and doing that random kind of non-purposeful movement of the extremities that some new stroke patients will do, we had a doctor that hand wrote in his progress notes, "appears like a beached whale".

Specializes in Utilization Management.
We had a new resident admitted with dx of MRDD and jump from 3rd floor window ... what's the ICD9 code for that?

I guess it'd be a dx of "accidental fall." And yes, they do have ICD9 codes for all those weird situations.

Even for falling into a manhole.

Doesn't that beat all?

We recently had a patient in with "incurative colitis." I think they meant "ulcerative colitis."

Yeah, we see "Sick" and "Ill" and "Doesn't feel good" as ER reasons for visit all the time. Beats "foreign body in rectum" any day!

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