30th March: National Doctors Day

It is National Doctors Day and also the anniversary of the day Dr Crawford Long first used ether, in 1842. Here are 10 written howlers made by doctors in case notes.

1. She has no rigours 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 left side for over a year.
3. Rectal examination revealed an active thyroid.
4. She has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1983.
5. I saw your patient today and she is staying under the car of the consultant for physiotherapy.
6. While in the ER, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.
7. Examination of the genitalia reveals that he is circus-sized.
8. On the second day the knee felt better and on the third it had completely disappeared
9. By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was feeling better.
10. She is numb from her toes down.