We’re midway through another month… so here are some more funny charting errors for you giggle about. Chart Farts® (: real stuff. real charts :)

• This patient would be a good candidate to be killed in PT
• Allergies: Cinglair
• Code was called for patient being found acystic
• Patient gets dilutional on Paxil
• He was told to have a heart attack in 1984. Subsequently he was treated with some pills for about a month or two by his family doctor.
• RN note: Large BM noted, Stage 2 stool noted left cheek
• blindness and depression in the left eye
• Order: Patient may go off floor to linen sale with sitter
• Allergies: statins – severe leg crap
• V tabulation
• Admission diagnosis: hyperglycemia, peeing over 5 minutes
• Please remove Foley at 6am. Notify urology if patient has not voided in 6 months.
• heroic vomiting
• parentinitis
• Chief complaint: kidney attack
• I immediately assisted the patient while lying supine on the floor
• high caliber stool
• He has 2 brothers who are hospital healthy
• surgery for very close veins
• chest pain, but only when he walks in Wal-Mart

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OK, it’s time to revisit Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Last time, we looked at nurses. But this time we’re going to examine some habits of those doctors that get right under our skin, the annoying ones that everyone complains about, the doctors that are nowhere to be found in Mr. Covey’s book. Just to help you identify the people we are talking about, here are the 7 Habits of Highly Annoying Doctors:

• Calling consults before even seeing the patient.
• Going on vacation without arranging coverage… assuming that residents or hospitalists will cover.
• Despicable penmanship.
• Using prohibited abbreviations (and then having the kahonies to get angry when nurses or pharmacists call them on it).
• Always being late for meetings, appointments, and important events. Always.
• Asking a staff member a question without greeting them first (“Hello”, “Excuse me”, “Pardon me”, “I’m sorry to interrupt, but…” no greeting what so ever, none).
• Introducing themselves as “Doctor” after another doctor initiates the introduction using their first name (Goes like this… “Hi, I’m John Smith, one of the ER docs here. Nice to meet you.” “Oh, Hi. I’m Dr. Snobwalla, Chief of Surgery.”)

Feel free to list their other annoying traits. Send me an email or just post a comment below. If there are any other professions… say NPs, PAs, EMTs, etc that you think need a list of their own, let me know. :0)

We’ve all heard of Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.  But what about all of those people that we work with in health care?… you know… those people that are nowhere to be found in Mr. Covey’s book.  Just to make sure we’re all talking about the same people, here are the 7 Habits of Highly Annoying Nurses:

• Just calling “to let you know”.
• Writing “Doctor aware”.
• Saying, “It’s not my patient”.
• Referring to patients by their room numbers and not knowing their names.
• Smoke breaks.
• Waiting until the end of their shift to start their charting.
• Writing that they “read back” an order, when they did no such thing.

Feel free to add others for consideration.  Send us an email or just post a comment below.  For those annoying nurses that took offense to this post… two things: (1) If you do three or more of the above, you have no one to blame but yourself, and (2) the next post is one that you’ll love – The 7 Habits of Highly Annoying Doctors.  :0)

There are lots of things that leave you thinking, “TMI” when reading some tweets from the world of Twitter. And that’s fine… you wanna post something on Twitter, fine. Just do us all a favor and spare us these 21 Things You Should Never Tweet About Your Health:

• Your favorite urine sample flavor
• Ways you conned your doctor out of paying your copay
• Requests for more narcotics
• Your sputum quality index
• Your latest spot on the Bristol Stool Chart
• Mechanical home remedies for hemorrhoids (with or without step-by-step instructions)
• All of the reasons you enjoy kidney stone pain
• Stories of your favorite colonoscopy experience
• All of the things that fascinate you about boils and carbuncles
• A list of your favorite hospital odors and the source of their nostalgia
• The prevailing theories on why you get recurrent rectal abscesses
• Links to Flikr photos of the lesions you discovered in your armpit
• Your first thoughts upon tasting that drainage from your tooth abscess
• Your six favorite ways to conserve your use of underwear
• The Flikr photo of that abdominal CT scan where they discovered your role in that smuggling cartel
• A running list of all of the goodies you found in hospital dumpsters
• Links to those prostatectomy videos that you posted on YouTube
• How stupid you felt when you applied that suppository without first removing the foil packaging
• That you think your wife’s cooking should go into a biohazard bag
• The real etiology of your “spider bite”
• The 7 nifty uses you found for keeping your pinky fingernail so long

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I was thinking… then, I got to wondering… What would some of my favorite shows as a kid have looked like through the eyes of a specialist? I mean, everywhere I look I feel like I’m seeing medical disorders… so, what do the specialists see?

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