Medical Madness?

[StitchInTime]

I’ve been sorting through the multitudinous boxes in my apartment again, and while doing so found this amusing item:

 

Exact Change, Compiled by Libby Stephens, It’s just what the doctor ordered, Toronto Star, Saturday, December 7, 2002

 

We can’t verify it but we have been assured the following are actual entries doctors have made on patients’ chargts.

1.She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.

2.Patient has chest pain if she lies on her let side for over a year.

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

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

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

6.Discharge status:  Alive but without my permission.

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

8.The patient refused autopsy.

9.The patient has no previous history of suicides.

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

11.Patient’s medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 percent weight gain in the past three days.

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

13.She is numb from the toes down.

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

15.The skin was moist and dry.

16.Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.

17.Patient was alert and unresponsive.

18.Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.

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

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

21.Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.

22.Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.

23.The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

24.The patient was to have a bowel resection.  However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead.

25.Skin:  somewhat pale but present.

26.The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.

27.Patient was seen in consultation by Dr. Blank, who felt we should sit on the abdomen and I agree.

28.Large brown stool ambulating in the hall.

29.Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.

 

  ;D

[TFMF]

A lot of terminal illnesses there...

 

;D

[Megalith]

very funny stitch :) gave me a good giggle.