OT-- Medical Humor

From:Connie McManus

I thought you all might like this... 

Connie M


The following quotes were taken from actual medical records as dictated
by physicians.


*By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was
feeling better.

*Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

*On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had
completely disappeared.

*The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983.

*The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be
depressed.

*Discharge status: Alive but without permission.

*Healthy-appearing decrepit sixty-nine-year-old male, mentally alert but
forgetful.

*The patient refused an autopsy.

*The patient has no past history of suicides.

*The patient expired on the floor uneventfully.

*Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.

*The patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant,
with only a forty-pound weight gain in the past three days.

*She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate
directions in early December.

*The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane
ran out of gas and crashed.

*She is numb from her toes down.

*The skin was moist and dry.

*Patient was alert and unresponsive.

*When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room



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Utah State University
Logan, UT
USA
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fax (435) 797-2805




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