NationStates Jolt Archive


Doctors aren't noted for their penmanship ... or their grammar, apparently!

Eutrusca
07-10-2005, 06:18
NOTE: Got these in an email. :D


Actual entries on hospital charts:

1. The patient refused autopsy.

2. The patient has no previous history of suicides.

3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.

4. Note: patient here—recovering from forehead cut. Patient became very angry when given an enema by mistake.

5. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

6. On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.

7. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.

8. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.

9. Discharge status: Alive but without permission.

10. Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.

12. She is numb from her toes down.

13. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.

14. The skin was moist and dry.

15. Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.

16. Patient was alert and unresponsive.

17. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.

18. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.

19. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.

20. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circu sized.

21. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

22. Skin: somewhat pale but present

23. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities
Keruvalia
07-10-2005, 06:19
Yo mama so poor when she goes to KFC, she has to lick other people's fingers!
PasturePastry
07-10-2005, 06:22
17. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.
:eek:
The doctor must have been wearing one of those gloves that they use on cows.
The Soviet Americas
07-10-2005, 07:02
LOLz for real, Eutrusca. Good find!

1. The patient refused autopsy.
The first is always the best.
Fass
07-10-2005, 07:05
11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.

Hilarious, because it sort of makes sense.