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"

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This isn't a CC, but goes along with spelling errors. For mispronunciation, we hear this a lot from a specific set our of pt pop: ambulance is pronounced am-BA-lance. I never get tired of how that sounds.

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"Sewling of elbos and privets"

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"Sewling of elbos and privets"

HUH???? LOL!! It sounds like Chaucer.

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HUH???? LOL!! It sounds like Chaucer.

We deciphered it as, "swelling of elbow and privates".....:D

I couldn't make the connection. The elbo is kind of removed from the privets!!!

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Her elbow, his privates? :D LOL! It would make more sense as two patients for sure ...

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We deciphered it as, "swelling of elbow and privates".....:D

I couldn't make the connection. The elbo is kind of removed from the privets!!!

hmmm dependent edema from sitting too long, but with the arms resting on the bar???

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A little off subject but...

We always laugh about "some dude," most of the patients who come in by EMS or from triage state that, "I was just walking down the street and 'some dude' just started beating me up.

That "some dude" must be a bad bad man because he is ALLLLL over our city and strikes poor inocent victims all the time. HAHA

Anytime EMS calls with an altercation we always joke that "some dude" must be at it again.

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When a very young girl signs in with 'Mite be pregnate' makes me think if you can't spell it, you shouldn't be it!

Man with rag over R eye CC 'Pan in eye' Turns out to be conjunctivitis and merely a pain in the eye...lol

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c/o ran out of cudamin and azzburn

And we wonder why people come to the ER for what we consider non-emergencies.

Some of these are funny, others are sad, as they reflect poverty, lack of education, illiteracy, the life of the hard core inner city drug user, or just uneducated folk who might actually be the salt of the earth but are poor.

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

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

Are you sure this one wasn't syphilis or other STD?
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"Bleedin in the virgan"

I don't believe there was a "virgan" in the room! :D

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WOW haha

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