Happy MT Week

It's Medical Transcriptionist week - give your favourite MT a hug :)

Here's the top 25 Dictator Bloopers - I received this from work and it cracked me up - maybe you too? These are the things that doctors actually say while dictating...our job is to clean them up. Aren't you glad you have us? :)

1. Allergic to MORPHINE, VALIUM and her relatives.
2. The patient reports that since she had a colonoscopy, she has noticed some problems with her short-term memory.
3. She is on SEPTRA right now for a sinus infection which she was given over the phone.
4. The patient fell while rollerblading on his left hand.
5. Patient comes into Urgent Care feeling concerned because at work he feels slightly confused and disoriented. At work he usually carries on 3-4 conversations at a time, and now is only able to carry on one conversation at a time.
6. I recommended that she get an over-the-counter ear removal preparation.
7. He sustained injuries to his forehead and face when he fell from his glasses.
8. She gets headaches with her migraines.
9. He also has external hemorrhoids, which he says he likes to keep to himself.
10. The patient reports a fatal reaction to IODINE in the past.
11. She also complains of pain in her right ankle. She says she is not sexually active.
12. He has been monitoring his blood pressure. Does not drink. Does not use much soap.
13. Patient is 15 years old. Chronic runny nose for 20 years.
14. She apparently has had a cold for several weeks, but just started to turn green the last couple of days.
15. The patient has not been using METROGEL because it was too drying and her face peeled off in chunks.
16. She smokes one glass of alcohol per week.
17. ...concentrated on chest, abdomen and all four lower extremities.
18. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.
19. The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983.
20. He has left his white blood cells at another hospital.
21. The patient left the hospital feeling much better except for her original complaint.
22. She has breast-fed the baby with frequent loose stools.
23. At work yesterday, she was lifting a 5-gallon bucket of pain.
24. This man was seen by me a month and a half ago and got over it.
25. A 78-year old woman told her PCP, “I just KNOW I have BEGONIA”!