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.
More of Something Funny:
Volume 12
Volume 11
Volume 10
Volume 9
Volume 8
Volume 7
Volume 6
Volume 5
Volume 4
Volume 3
Volume 2
Volume 1
|
