The Unblooper

[Davey Do]

In the 60's and 70's, 7up had the Uncola so let's have an Unblooper!

An Unblooper is by which actual medical records had documentation which was unrealistic, ludicrous, and sometimes hilarious, but was actually the case.

On some level of reality.

In this case, I was reading an article titled Hilarious Hospital Bloopers and thought, "What if what was thought to be a blooper was actually a rendition of reality?"

For example, this was reported to be a portion from an actual medical transcription:

 

 

Preparation H to neurology, stat!

 

 

 

[Davey Do]

The first Unblooper I encountered occurred in 1983 when I was doing a clinical rotation on OB.

It seems a young lady was doing some yard work when she suffered a hematoma to her vulva. The physician who treated her had a thick accent and dictated, "The patient was struck by a branch between the legs".

The transcriptionist heard the dictation as "The patient had a stroke on a bridge between two lakes:

 

 

 

[JBMmom, MSN, NP]

This is a favorite story at our hospital. One of the MDs has a very thick Chinese accent. Upon admission he tried to document "the patient has crackles in the bases". However, through the modern miracle of Dragon, what appeared in the H&P was "the patient has crack whores in the basement". We all felt bad for those crack whores, we hope they got out of the basement at some point. We were also a little surprised that a medical terminology transcription program would default to crack whores. 

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Our medical records used to put out a list of the best bloopers each year. The only one I can remember is "patient reports having a bowel full of oatmeal for breakfast this morning. 

[Davey Do]

JBMmom, I laughed so hard at both your and nursej22's posts the first thing this morning, I was in tears.

11 hours ago, JBMmom said:

"the patient has crackles in the bases"

"the patient has crack whores in the basement"

In this animation, I guess Davey Do could play the part of the basement residents:

[Davey Do]

9 hours ago, nursej22 said:

patient reports having a bowel full of oatmeal for breakfast this morning. 

 

[CalicoKitty, BSN, MSN, RN]

Okay, just found a dragoncorrect. "Family kidnapped esophagus" instead of family clinic ???

[Davey Do]

6 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

"Family kidnapped esophagus" instead of family clinic ???

The Unblooper: