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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (3959)	6/22/2004 11:06:36 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Jack, It is very good to hear that you are continuing to do well and get better. I know of many physicians whose dictation style is perfection personified. I have no doubt you would be in that elite but (sadly) dwindling group. And I know full well that many (too many) people who call themselves medical transcriptionists or that latest affection, "medical language specialists," should be ashamed. So, to be fair and balanced, I offer up the following snippets I am sure no physician ever dictated, yet can be found in various hospital charts. This being a family thread, I shall not go into the particulars of the "fondle exam," except to say it had everyone in that hospital laughing uncontrollably for for weeks; that is to say, everyone except the physician who dictated it and the person who misheard it and blithely transcribed it. Suboccipital decompression with dural patch curare (Chiari) decompression. Spacious (sebaceous) cyst. Hunting in Korea (Huntington chorea). The patient was discharged in sterile (stable) condition. Poorly seen (porcine) mitral valve prosthesis. The patient has not used his can (cane) for a week. Repeat chest films with nibble (nipple) markers. Pertinent feathers (features) on physical examination. Soft-shell (esophageal) motility disorder. (At least the hyphenation is correct.) Pain-ranting (rating) scale. The patient speaks fuzzy (Farsi). Loss of purple (peripheral) vision. The patient arrived to the ER with a taxi (ataxia). Highwary "30." (My typo. Mea culpa. Highway "30" is a roadway on which there were and are and probably ever shall be numerous vehicular collisions.) Best, Holly