Funny Typo
Started by docB
Perhaps the things you are into are not the things the triage nurse is into.
Sounds like the type of thing I'd imagine you'd see working in Vegas ... You were talking about the age as the typo, right 😉
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I wonder if this is related to the uncorrected voice recognition software error I once saw in an H&P trying to determine the cause of a patient's "persistent porn eating"?
Definitely a diagnosis to make in the ED!
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There are also ICD codes and diagnosis in EPIC for bear attacks and falling out of a plane.
the list of things for which there ARE and ARE NOT ICD-9 codes is puzzling, at best
"winter vomiting" is one of my favorite in the vomiting category...
Now you're just encouraging it!
My favorite: V9733XD - not the initial, but the followup visit after being sucked into a jet engine.
Ok I'm disturbed that you know this.😛
There is a lot of strange stuff in the ICDs. That must be why it showed up. I'd noticed that all back pain changes to "lumbago" and dizziness becomes "dizziness and giddiness." I started looking stuff up and discovered that there are codes for dropsy, scrofula and hysteria. It's like it the cutting edge of medicine 1935 in here.
Frighteningly there are still diagnosis codes for homosexuality (Ego-dystonic sexual orientation 302.0), "victim of homosexual aggression" (27320 ICD 10), etc. That must be held over from the DSM III. You'd think they'd purge these codes periodically.
In residency, the computer charting system had a drop down menu for diagnoses. Every time I was in the peds ED and diagnosed a kid with vomiting, I had to scroll past the erotic vomiting ICD-9 Dx. Always made me chuckle to think that some resident was in too much of a hurry and diagnosed some 5 y/o with erotic vomiting. Imagine the look on the coder's face.
"Orgasmic Headache" - not actually a typo but still funny
One can only scroll past "erotic vomiting" so many times before you do a search using a non-work computer.
There's one for getting hit by falling space junk somewhere.There are also ICD codes and diagnosis in EPIC for bear attacks and falling out of a plane.
We had a "fuzzy baby" in our ER last night.
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My dragon (voice dictation) keeps typing "rectal care time" rather than "critical care time." The coders seem to enjoy seeing 30-35 minutes of rectal care time and the end of my charts.
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Dude. Thats a thorough exam.
Unfortunately "rectal care time" isn't as easily billable under our current CPT system, as is "critical care" time; not legally, anyways.
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That would be awesome if some patient requested his medical record before I got a chance to edit/correct my chart! I'm sure he would appreciate that note.
Here is one of mine from last week...
Dictated : Intubated patient utilizing glidescope....
Transcribed: Intubated patient utilizing kaleidoscope...
I work in a rural community ER. The patient in question was a trauma patient that I flew out to a major trauma center. I can just picture the residents on the trauma team reading my note and laughing about the backwoods country bumpkins using a kaleidoscope to intubate a trauma patient!
Dictated : Intubated patient utilizing glidescope....
Transcribed: Intubated patient utilizing kaleidoscope...
I work in a rural community ER. The patient in question was a trauma patient that I flew out to a major trauma center. I can just picture the residents on the trauma team reading my note and laughing about the backwoods country bumpkins using a kaleidoscope to intubate a trauma patient!
Here is one of mine from last week...
Dictated : Intubated patient utilizing glidescope....
Transcribed: Intubated patient utilizing kaleidoscope...
I work in a rural community ER. The patient in question was a trauma patient that I flew out to a major trauma center. I can just picture the residents on the trauma team reading my note and laughing about the backwoods country bumpkins using a kaleidoscope to intubate a trauma patient!
Dictated : Intubated patient utilizing glidescope....
Transcribed: Intubated patient utilizing kaleidoscope...
I work in a rural community ER. The patient in question was a trauma patient that I flew out to a major trauma center. I can just picture the residents on the trauma team reading my note and laughing about the backwoods country bumpkins using a kaleidoscope to intubate a trauma patient!
It's not just effective. It's soothing and pretty too!
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You can't just give it away free. You spent years learning your trade. Haven't you ever heard the old dictum about the cow and the free milk?
