Funny Sign In Slips

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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"

Specializes in ER, NICU.

One very slow morning, pt takes the triage sheet begins writing furiously. Comes back about an hour later and every, and I do mean every, last inch of the sheet front and back is filled with his complaints. He had basically written down a minute by minute replay of his entire weekend. Triaged him...his CC...in a nutshell was having chest pain because he spent all his money on a hotel room and failed to get any nookie. :crying2:

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Specializes in Emergency Department.
Funniest c/o I've ever had:

:rotfl: Passed out while sleeping :rotfl:

Love this one!

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I love working ER!!

1. Man came in with bloody face. (he had been in a fight). He wrote on the complaint slip "I fought the wall and the wall won"

2. I was getting medical history from the patient. He stated that he had cancer once. When i asked where - he said "Well I dont really remember, but i think it was in my ovaries"

God bless them all.!

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care (CEN, CCRN).

Patient came in c/o "hives" on her chest and legs. Triage RN inspected, found skin to be clean, dry and intact. When asked, the pt said "The hives are on the inside where you can't see them."

:grn:

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Specializes in ER, Oncology, Preop, Recovery.

Here are a few more classics:

"Sik" a personal favorite

"Bleeding from rough sex"

"Private" usually involving an object in an unusual place or a possible STD, often accompanied by "please do not call my home number"

"A$@hole keeps falling out" turned out to be a prolapsed rectum

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care (CEN, CCRN).

A classic laugher from last night's triage shift:

"Chest pain started two hours ago; had sex and it went away, but now it's back."

--Sorry, sir, we don't provide that service here...

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I swear, there's not a patient in my county that can spell "abdominal", "vomiting" or "nausea"! Of course, "stumick" is equally difficult!

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Yep ... we see a lot of "vomickin." :D My favorite one lately: "eye drainage," then the incorrect use of "pus like" to describe the drainage. You know what I mean. LOL

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Specializes in gastroenterology, HIV, AIDS.
i had a sign in slip once that said "Caesures"

weirdest seizure spellling ever!

Funny thing is, that Roman Emporor by that same (kinda) name suffered from that very illness

Seizures that is.

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care (CEN, CCRN).

It's a fact of life in Emergency that very few of our patients actually know "the facts of life." As a result, we see a nonstop parade of genitourinary complaints, most of which aren't urgent or emergent in the slightest...

(Pt is seen in the EC for "abdominal pain." Pt has been seen 6x in last 72 hours for nonspecific lady partsl discharge.)

RN: So what brings you to the EC today?

Pt: Well, I've been having this stuff in my you-know...

RN: I see you were seen here last night for that. And earlier this week, too. Did you start using the Monistat cream you were prescribed?

Pt: No. Well, see, I got the prescription filled, but then I thought I don't want to use the cream because then if it stops, you'll think it was because of the cream and then you won't tell me what's really going on with me.

RN: (deadpan expression)

Pt: So when can I see a doctor? I'm really scared that something's really wrong with me.

RN: When you came in, you told the triage nurse that you were having some stomach pain. Is that still going on?

Pt: Oh no, I just had gas, that's all. I'm just really worried about this stuff coming out of me, and I thought I'd get to see a doctor faster if I told them I was hurting...

(Teenage pt walks into the EC, unaccompanied.)

RN: What brings you in today?

Pt: I'm bleeding. You know, down there.

RN: I see. And how long has this been going on?

Pt: About a week.

RN: And has this ever happened before?

Pt: You know, that's funny - it happened last month right around this time, and then it stopped, and I think it happened the month before that, too...

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.

Swelling on botox

(buttocks)

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"Clear leakages from my viagra."

"I have cuts on my private. And when I pee, the pee be hittin the cuts. Also need pregnancy test."

Both were fine usages of Medicaid dollars.

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