We have been collecting the better items in the back of a note book in our
reporting room which we read when we need cheering up. Recently we issued
the following set as an item in a GP News Letter.
PUBIC RAMI CONFUSION
You are probably aware that the laboratory staff who enter your patients'
clinical details into the computer are not medically qualified. You may not
realise that there is no rapid way for the senior staff who finally validate
the reports to change any of the more obvious misreadings. This is why you
sometimes find that your patients have some unusual conditions after the
details have gone through our system.
Sometimes it looks as if only one or two letters have been misread, as in:-
Neck Lamp Mole pattern baldness Fingal infection of
toes
On frolic acid Painful fee Circus seizures
Tingling of love Good Postures Syndrome Electrocaution
Night swats ? Cushions syndrome On golf injections
Sometimes it's difficult to see what was intended, as in:-
Decond Monitory Blitis Extrema Pubic rami confusion
X-ray shows choneboceileycosis Oral Busters Previously high on stripping
Even when we can read it, we're not certain what you were looking for, as
in:-
Post Malaysian lethargy Empty Cellar Syndrome Mildly upset
Mouth & tongue sore - changing contraceptive The usual problem
Everything going c/o slightly excitable feeling Chronic
plague
Unwell - high levels on finger Sharing tin whistle with hep. B
sufferer
While recognising there are problems at both ends of the communications
system, you could help us by making sure your writing is legible.
Elliott Simpson
Consultant Clinical Scientist
Clinical Director, Labs & Pharmacy
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