Registration Typos

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Okay, this is a spin off on the triage complaint thread. You know how sometimes when the registration clerks enter the chief complaint or diagnosis into the EMR, they sometimes goof up? What are some funny ones that come to mind?

Recently, I saw "tarombocytomember" instead of thrombocytopenia.

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I made a quick ER trip with an elderly aunt. We checked in and the very very British triage nurse processed my aunt quickly. We were taken to a room and when the doc came in, he was laughing. He showed me a note the triage nurse had made. My aunt's first name was Evelyn, which is a feminine name in the USA but a male one in GB. The note? "While patient seems to be a woman of approximately her stated age, why does s/he have that name?:speechless:

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There's a guy who comes into my ED almost every night with random complaints most recently he was suffering from "salted food made me itchy" the triage note simply said "salt"

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"Gullblutter Pin" turned out to be "Gallbladder pain"

"Bloody pens" meant "bloody member"

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Okay, this is not a complaint but this thread reminded me of it and had to share:

There was a mother that named her baby, "Dinasty" pronounced like the word, "Dynasty" but the reason she named her kid that was "because we was doin da nasty when we made her" cracks me up every time!!

Honest to God, had a 3 month old brought in by the name of Toiletta, because the mother ended up birthing her into a toilet. People in Florida........

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Honest to God, had a 3 month old brought in by the name of Toiletta, because the mother ended up birthing her into a toilet. People in Florida........

Hahaha that's great!

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God, do people not think of their kids and how people will be to them when they grow up? How mean will kids be in school with a kid called Toiletta? Or how seriously will prospective employers take someone with that name...ugh...

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I'm a victim of the "text generation". Last week at work I saw a chief of "brb vomit" and all I could think of was "be right back vomit"! Which kind of made sense in it's own weird way! ;)

Haven't read these all yet so sorry if this was addressed already, but I'm thinking that they meant bright red blood when they said brb lol

BeLLaRN

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