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Some ER's have patients who walk in to triage fill out a triage slip with name and chief complaint. they are always interesting due to misspellings and funny things that people write. care to share some funny ones with us?

ill go first, one girl wrote as her symptoms...."east infection"

When I heard it, it was the 'spiney-miney-jesus' (spinal menengitis)

Also 'bad blood' (high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.)

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Specializes in ER, ICU.

"my toa is mest up" (Broken toe)

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I have a question for all of our "English Critics".........has anyone here ever taken a day out of your precious year to volunteer for Project Literacy to help these people?

Yeah, I was sort of wondering, too, if there might be any maliciousness in the hearts or minds of those posting, especially in view of the many spelling errors in their own words. However, I must admit, a lot of this stuff is just freakin' FUNNY :devil: and I am ROFLMTO over many of them.

I think it's most instructive regarding who uses ER's the most - poor people, blacks, non-English speakers. At least in the ER's where the posters work. Of course, I guess we already knew that so who cares?

Yes, we should do whatever we each can do to help everyone we possibly can help. :jester: :chuckle :smiley_aa :balloons:

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I think this thread is great, I was laughing so hard I was crying... I don't think any of the people posting here meant any harm, it's just a place to laugh about the day to day stuff, that probably would drive you nuts if you couldn't get it out in a safe place..

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Specializes in Med/Surge, ER.

Last night, I was going through my Left Without Treatments, and their complaints so I could complete the proper paperwork. I came to one triage sheet that caught my eye. It was a 14 year old girl. Under the Chief Complaint box, it read...."mother wants patient evaluated for lady partsl farts." The night had been BAD, and all I needed was this chart to make it better. I laughed until I cried. Of course I had to share with the docs and other nurses.

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Nurse: "Are you sexually active?"

Patient: "Well.. I think I am...but my boyfriend says I just lay there."

LOLOLOL:lol2: :roll :chuckle :rotfl:

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these weren't written down but were kind of amusing

1. I think that I am having a bad chemical reaction....I was with my friends watching the football game and drinking beer and my friends told me to try one of theirs ( a different brand ) and I think mixing the two is causing some kind of chemical reaction that is making me sick...can you do a test to see what it is?

2. I am not feeling good because I drank some hot chocolate and was smoking cigarettes.....

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Specializes in LTC Rehab.

I was admitting a sweet lady to our rehab floor, she had back surgery and was telling me the doctor sent her there for the rest of her iv antibiotics, (usually when they come from the hospital for ivs they have a picc or saline lock) I asked her if she had an access and she said "honey I am from the south so I probably do have an accent"

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Specializes in ER, Oncology, Preop, Recovery.

How about "Big piece of meat hanging out down there"

=rectal prolapse

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Specializes in Intensive Care and Cardiology.
How about "Big piece of meat hanging out down there"

=rectal prolapse

OH MY!!!

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yuck!!!!!!!!

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All time fav "Exotic attack"...I think they meant anxiety attack:monkeydance:

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