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SOMETHING FUNNY!
VOLUME THIRTEEN

Dr. Anthony McDonald offers these real gems of mistakes on medical dictation that slipped through by using a new voice-recognition system by the transcriptionist.

"Mother: livid at age 79."

"...he will return to see the homely as needed."

"I have obtained his old raccoons from AGH and he had a very stormy postoperative course requiring mechanical ventilation."

"Spouse is illegal assistant at the state's attorney office."

"Heart disease: Father has an older man."

"Returns for recheck of his gluteal and thigh wounds. Trains were removed."

"His problems with poor continents persists."

"I will obtain misinformation and we will schedule surgery for next week."

"I removed her dream and she will return in one week for recheck."

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." - Daniel J. Boorstin

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." - Jim Feibig

"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble." - Dennis Fakes

New Vocabulary

Mouse Potato: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

SITCOM: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops workiing to stay home with the kids.

WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks

Stress Puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it to work again.

Adminisphere: The rarefied organizational layers just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

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