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.
- She has no rigours or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night
- Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
- Rectal examination revealed an active thyroid.
- She has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1983.
- I saw your patient today and she is staying under the car of the consultant for physiotherapy.
- While in the ER, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.
- Examination of the genitalia reveals that he is circus-sized.
- On the second day the knee felt better and on the third it had completely disappeared
- By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was feeling better.
- She is numb from her toes down.
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