Tuesday, January 31, 2012

trying to sound educated in dictations

Mike dictating in the call room with us all sitting around studying and trying to ignore him:

"pt took several ambien last night and was unable to be aroused by his wife this morning." -Mike

all of us start dying laughing and mike looks up, gets all confused, then puts the dictation on hold and asks, "what?" [not knowing at all what he just said].

after explanation, he said, "what! well how else can you say that?"

"well, you could just say 'patient was unable to be woken up by his wife this AM'...." -me

"oh. oops." -Mike

[i almost wish we didnt say anything so the attending could have read this and pointed it out in morning report tomorrow. hahaha]

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