Funny doctor orders

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I worked at a teaching hospital for about a year. I really enjoyed closely interacting with the interns, residents and staff physicians. Many times hilarious orders were written by the newbies. One of my personal favorites was from an intern who only wrote "Vicodin" and that was it. No route, dosage, frequency, etc. Haha! We also had a doctor write "b4" in the chart. We assumed they meant "before." I guess they forgot that this wasn't text messaging. Lol! We also had an older doctor who would write things like, "please call help desk to get the printer fixed." Yes, in the chart. Good times. Please share any of your funny stories from charts!

So, I'm guessing that TO=throughout, and LE=lower extremity, but what is WC?

Sorry I don't have any of my own to post.

In my world, WC means wild caught................

CB means captive bred and CBB means captive born and bred

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In my world, WC means wild caught................

CB means captive bred and CBB means captive born and bred

What world do you live in? :D

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Specializes in Oncology, LTC.

"Patient to have vodka on the rocks"...."with lime wedge, to be provided by family along with knife".

-Patient just found out that she had terminal cancer, and since there were no hospital protocols on alcohol use while an inpatient, the MD just wrote an order for it :)

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Specializes in ED, ICU, Education.
"Patient to have vodka on the rocks"...."with lime wedge, to be provided by family along with knife".

-Patient just found out that she had terminal cancer, and since there were no hospital protocols on alcohol use while an inpatient, the MD just wrote an order for it :)

Sometimes docs will write orders for one alcoholic beverage per day....to prevent the patient from detoxing (which is sometimes way way worse than the original admit diagnosis. In my experience, it has certainly helped in the niceness department of some crochety old man!!

OP: You have managed to keep me snickering!! Great thread!!

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

Clexanne is enoxaparin sodium I think it is marketed as Lovenex (?sp) in the US

Flagal is metronidazole the IV anti-biotic.

Off topic but welcome to the world of the non US nurse reading the boards! Brand names differ so much from country to country!

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Specializes in Medical Surgical.
:yeah::lol2::yeah::lol2::yeah::lol2::yeah:

that one had me cracking up. did he say that with a straight face?

no, he didn't crack a smile. he had just scrawled the order not 3 minutes before and had already forgotten. so now it was our problem.

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Specializes in med/surg, wound/ostomy.

One of my favorites was "MOM 30cc q4hr prn for diarrhea." I questioned the MD on that one and he insisted that he was right and that was what he wanted!!!!!

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An endocrinologist wrote the following order the other day: IV push orange juice for blood sugars

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Specializes in Psych, I/DD.
One of my favorites was "MOM 30cc q4hr prn for diarrhea." I questioned the MD on that one and he insisted that he was right and that was what he wanted!!!!!

Hmm, maybe you should have provided a PDR to him...:lol2:

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Called a new resident to get an order for Gravol for a 3 year old who was nauseous. She said "I'll look up the dose and call you back." When she called back she ordered 500mg Gravol IV q4h PRN. I told her that seemed like a bit much. After thinking about it for a few minutes, she agreed and changed it to 25mg.

We really do keep doctors from killing patients :lol2:

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i think MOM = milk of magnesia, but still pretty funny/ lazy of the md

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
i think MOM = milk of magnesia, but still pretty funny/ lazy of the md

Right, I think the concern was that the doctor was ordering it for diarrhea.

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