Stupid requisition form or transcription errors

[yaah]

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Funny stuff:

55 year old woman with metastatic ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion of right breast.

Specimen: Esophagus. Preop dx: Rule out Barrett's diarrhea.

Best one:

46 year old woman, history of abnormal uterine bleeding. Now with man in vagina. Large vaginal wall man with abnormal papillation.

 

[cytoborg]

46 year old woman, history of abnormal uterine bleeding. Now with man in vagina. Large vaginal wall man with abnormal papillation.

Thanks, I needed that!

 

[DrBloodmoney]

We have a hilarious transcription service. Two of my all-time personal favorites which have shown up in our dictations:

1. "Prylocytic gastic cytoma"

[pilocytic astrocytoma]

2. "hyperdibirubidemia"


lmao

 

[b&ierstiefel]

roflmao...i almost shat myself...but i'm drunk now too.

 

[yaah]

During my PSF the transcriptioninst would routinely transcribe "Skin ellipse" as "skinny lips."

Here's another one:

Clinical history: 45 year old with large fatty subcutaneous ass.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

During my PSF the transcriptioninst would routinely transcribe "Skin ellipse" as "skinny lips."

Here's another one:

Clinical history: 45 year old with large fatty subcutaneous ass.

oh you so funny

 

[Brougham]

Oohhhh, great topic. We had a bunch of these collected last year. We got a bunch of "skinny lips" too but the best was....

65 year old male with h/o colon CA.

specimen recieved: Left semi-colon and greater momentum.

 

[yaah]

specimen recieved: Left semi-colon and greater momentum.

We had a large abdominal pannus resection on a woman whose name was "Fatme." Someone put that up in the room here.

Someone also put up a requisition on a breast lumpectomy, oriented, where the stich denoted the "inferior posterolateral deep margin."

 

[deschutes]

the stich denoted the "inferior posterolateral deep margin."

I think my brain just imploded!

 

[sohsie]

We have a requisition for a spleen that has no words in the clinical history or diagnosis section, but rather a picture in the clinical history. It contained a crudely drawn 1920s era car with no top hitting a bump, and a stick figure driver flying headfirst into the ground.

 

[yaah]

I wonder if I am the only one who finds this funny. First is the guy's past medical history which is a fascinating collection of disorders:

Past medical history is notable for diabetes, cataract,
hyperlipidemia, heart block, coronary artery disease, chronic
headaches, dizziness, POEMS syndrome, depression, and rotator
cuff tear, seizure disorder on dilantin (last seizure (not grand
mal) about 3-4 months ago per wife); right hip arthritis s/p
replacement

Then comes his "social history" which caused me to crack up laughing for 10 minutes.
Social history, he is married, has two children, no
grandchildren. He is retired and generally bored with no
purposeful activities. He smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a
day, but denies using alcohol.

 

[beary]

I wonder if SDN counts as a "purposeful activity."

 

[deschutes]

I wonder if I am the only one who finds this funny.

I didn't - but I might get it if you tell me!

What I find befuddling is why all that ended up on a path requisition. (Or was it an autopsy chart review??)

 

[yaah]

I didn't - but I might get it if you tell me!

What I find befuddling is why all that ended up on a path requisition. (Or was it an autopsy chart review??)

It wasnt' technically a path requisition. It was a patient history that I was going through because he was an emergent OR case and I had to assess potential for blood use intraoperatively. We get some nice errors occasionally on the OR schedule, like:

7:30am: Retrosigmoid approach for resection of acoustic neuroma.

I'm not sure what they were trying to say there.

 

[beary]

7:30am: Retrosigmoid approach for resection of acoustic neuroma.

I'm not sure what they were trying to say there.

Whoa!! That sounds a little more invasive than is necessary.

 

[Lagarta]

Oohhhh, great topic. We had a bunch of these collected last year. We got a bunch of "skinny lips" too but the best was....

65 year old male with h/o colon CA.

specimen recieved: Left semi-colon and greater momentum.

Ok, I have a gross but funny one: "pt c/o ***** discharge". I think the author was trying to say that the discharge was pus-like in nature. LMAO anyway. 😱 😀

 

[bananaface]

That is hilarious. 👍

 

[univlad]

Vitamin B12 deficiency transcribed as "beach ball deficiency"

 

[Stinger86]

2. "hyperdibirubidemia"

For some reason, this one had me crying