Hospital Hallway Funnies – Overheard and Out of Context Humor

Posted by Dun Tzu on the November 7th, 2010

Check out these latest Hospital Hallway Funnies – from our collection of overheard and out of context conversations from our fellow healthcare professionals. Read some of these and you’ll begin to think professional should be in quotes.

We have collected hundreds of such quotes… specifically, quotes heard in the hospital that, without context, could be quite humorous. Here’s a recent sample from @GiggleMed Twitter posts:

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Hospital Hallway Funnies – Medical Humor, But Not On Purpose

Posted by Dun Tzu on the November 12th, 2009

If you’re not following @GiggleMed on Twitter, you are missing out on a series of hilarious medical humor tweets – Hospital Hallway Funnies.

It all started with a committee meeting when I heard another physician say, “As far as I’m concerned, the doctors shouldn’t have to do anything.” I wrote that statement down and put it on my desk…

I have since collected hundreds of quotes… specifically, quotes heard in the hospital that, without context, could be quite humorous. Here’s a recent sample from my Twitter posts:

25 Signs That The Hospital Food Is Not Edible – Submit a Chart Fart™

Posted by Dun Tzu on the August 7th, 2009

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Medical Chart Humor – Chart Farts® Video #3

Posted by Dun Tzu on the July 25th, 2009

I just posted a new Chart Farts® video on YouTube…

It has all of the usual (hilarious) samples from the Chart Farts® collection… but this one has a twist at the end that will cause a small subset of you will wet yourself when you see it. The rest of you will just wonder… WTF? (hint: you have to be older than 30 to get it… or have some weird fascination with watching re-runs of old, 1980s sitcoms)

In any case, the Joint Commission won’t like it…

But hey, I laugh at doctor jokes… nurses laugh at nurse jokes…

(: medicine is fun again :)

More Medical Chart Funnies and Bloopers – Chart Farts®

Posted by Dun Tzu on the May 16th, 2009


It’s time for your mid-month dose of hospital chart bloopers (with my under-the-breath side-comments in italics)… Here’s another group of funny medical malapropisms for you. All of these are from real hospital charts. Not ideal, but true… Chart Farts® (: real stuff. real charts :)

  • Analpril 1.25mg Q8hrs (Is that for hyper-sphincter-tension?)
  • Nasal packaging
  • Nasal fungal cream
  • He lives with his finance (So… are you thinking about your patient or the stock market?)
  • Retrocele (Now in paisley!)
  • Secular aneurysm (Will need intervention from the Surgical Right)
  • She is on 93 Liters of oxygen (All of the latest hospital facilities come with wind tunnels)
  • Wingworms (Sounds like something from the Princess Bride)
  • Bypolor
  • He has recently been on both aspirin, Plavix, prednisone, and Coumadin
  • “Pain med: “”given”" Where/route: “”in room”" (Well… Thank you Nurse Sherlock)
  • Breeding ulcer (No comment… uh… ok, one comment… We should discuss strategies on lower k values.)
  • ROS: Unobtainable secondary to patient’s mental status change and I am unable to follow commands. (I bet)
  • Chief complaint: Clogged tube (You’re gonna have to be a little more specific)
  • Chief complaint: uncontrollable bowel movement (Like that damn pink little bunny with the drums)
  • Uncontrolled left labrial cellulitis
  • Buttock, lower back, and neck pain from assa (I’m not quite sure what assa is, but it should probably be taken off of the market)
  • Chief complaint: Debility
  • Pericardial tachycardia
  • Reason for ER visit: Dates and anatomy (Dude, now that’s high risk behavior if I ever heard it)
  • History of psychoptosis (Doesn’t it sorta suck when your brain explodes?)
  • History of bump bleedin
  • chronic obesity (As opposed to the much more shocking acute form)
  • Will sue high dose furosemide to force diuresis
  • Hide-a-scan
  • Bi geminis (Not that there’s anything wrong with that… at least if your EF is okay)
  • History of grouch in my feet (Grouch, gouch, the gout… it’s all the same)
  • Mr. H is an 823-year old Caucasian male patient who was actually transferred here from another hospital.
  • Bariatric enema (Every nurse’s nightmare)

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Impaction Humor – Is There Such a Thing?

Posted by Dun Tzu on the April 16th, 2009


Things You Never Want to Hear During a Disimpaction


Get This Hilarious Impaction Manual… Just Tell Me Something First :)

OK. You might think this is cheesy. But I’m going to issue a blatant free bribe… Here it goes: I will give you the funny report/download 25 Things You Never Want To Hear During a Disimpaction if you just tell me one of two things…

1 – Give me feedback on the GiggleMed sites – good or bad – just tell me what you think.

or

2 – Tell me a funny healthcare story… anything that happened to you or a colleague.

That’s it. Not too bad, huh? I mean, does it get any better than this? You tell me how much you love my stuff and I send you a free disimpaction manual. Even though I’m totally deceiving you with the picture having a spiral bound manual, you still know this is a sweet deal. So hop to it. Laughter is the best laxative (that’s how it goes, right?).


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Certainly a disimpaction manual is better than a manual disimpaction.

More Medical Chart Bloopers – Chart Farts ®

Posted by Dun Tzu on the April 13th, 2009


It’s time for your mid-month dose of hospital chart bloopers (with my snide comments in italics and parentheses)… Here’s another set of funny medical malapropisms for you. Chart Farts® (: real stuff. real charts :)

  • I had a bisectomy ’cause of all them damn kids (it’s a shame it wasn’t done a generation earlier)
  • Condition on Transfer: Much better than on presentation
  • Assessment: Palpitations – please see monitor (What’s next? Systolic murmur – go ahead and listen with a stethoscope)
  • I had a cartridge taken out of my knee (I hear you get a rebate for recycling those at Staples)
  • He is blind in his right prosthesis (Dude, everyone is blind in their prosthesis)
  • Echo with tumor vs trombus (one of those Jamaican clots)
  • Social history: He used to abuse drugs remotely (boy… the technology today…)
  • ROS: Neurological – no ambition
  • Based on lab data, he has a stable perianal itch. (Number 1 – Is an ‘itch’ ever stable? Number 2 – What lab data?!)
  • Old Timer’s
  • Oldheimer’s
  • Discharge Diagnosis: Viral bacterial pneumonia
  • Seashore disorder (We medical-types call them ‘seizures’)
  • Chief Complaint: Responsive
  • Admission diagnosis: Seizurettes (We medical-types call them ‘girly man seizures’)
  • History of bipolar diarrhea (You should see the manic phase)
  • Failure to dehydrate
  • He could not stop vomiting diarreah
  • Electric lytes
  • Cardiac capitalization
  • Follow up with vascular urine
  • Increased aggitation to sedation
  • Height: 163cm, Weight: 10.3Kg, BMI 3
  • We did not repeat an EKG because we have an EF from a month ago.
  • history of peripheral vascular disease in both lungs
  • She has a drug addition problem (1 dose of painkillers = 2 dilaudids, 2 percocets, & a sniff o’ glue)
  • O2 sat: 110% on room air
  • His culture grew citrus bacteria
  • Nosacomical pneumonia (Not so ‘comical’ to the hospital bean counters)
  • A chest CT on the 10th was negative for intracranial hemorrhage
  • Europathy (Thankfully, President Bush is recovering… after those Freedom Biotics)

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Chart Fart Art ™ – Better Than Watching Paint Dry

Posted by Dun Tzu on the March 25th, 2009

The response to our Chart Farts ® collection continues to be overwhelming… Tons of funny submissions, words of appreciation, and even a question or two from a rare disbeliever.

All of our Chart Farts® are original and all are actual malapropisms found in charts, uttered by healthcare professionals, or said by patients. Chart Fart Art ™ is simply one of these funny malapropisms put to comics. We have chosen some of our favorite chart bloopers from our Chart Farts ® collection and made corresponding healthcare funnies.

Here’s the latest…

… watching diarrhea is probably better than watching paint dry… well… if you’re into that sort of thing. (not that there’s anything wrong with that)

For Nerds Only – Molecules and Compounds with Funny Names

Posted by Dun Tzu on the February 24th, 2009

Yes, there’s still some nerd in me. And that side of me came out when I was reading this list of “Silly Named Molecules”. This document is long, but it is conveniently broken down into sections for each substance. Just read the funny names of these compounds and molecules. Then read through the ones that interest you.

I’m sure most of you will read the sections on “Arsole”, “Fartox”, and “SnOT”, but I also got a kick out of “Betweenanine”, “Complicatic acid”, “Constipatic acid”, “Piano stool”, “Ptelefolone”, and, of course, “the Nano-Putians”.

Silly Named Molecules

Funny (Real) Doctors’ Names

Posted by Dun Tzu on the February 11th, 2009

Funny Doctor Names and Specialty Jokes

OK. I’ve been compiling a list of funny doctors’ names. Yesterday I asked the help of some of my tweeps (friends on Twitter), so the list grew. The list is divided into three: (1) Interesting or kinda cool, (2) Specialty-name matches that are either funny or scary (especially those damn urologists), and (3) The No-Comment List. I have about 7 more that belong on the No-Comment List of Doctor names, but are way too far over the edge for me to post.

1 – Interesting or Kinda Cool Doctors’ names:

  • Dr. Doctor
  • Dr. Payne (there are lots of these)
  • Dr. Blood
  • Dr. Ricketts
  • Dr. Stump
  • Dr. Croke
  • Dr. Killie
  • Dr. Poke

2 – Funny specialty-name matches that are either funny or scary:

  • Dr. Love (cardiologist)
  • Dr. Schpritz (urologist)
  • Dr. Di(ana) Mort (oncologist)
  • Dr. Plack (cardiologist)
  • Dr. Slaughter (surgeon)
  • Dr. Zipper (urologist)
  • Dr. Moorkath (cardiologist… it’s all about the procedures, baby)
  • Dr. Klutz (surgeon)
  • Dr. Fingers (gynecologist)
  • Dr. Richard Chopp (urologist… don’t believe me? click the link)
  • Dr. Blinder (ophthalmologist)
  • Dr. Nudelman (urologist)
  • Dr. Butt (gastroenterologist)
  • Dr. Redwood (urologist… no, not a veterinary urologist… get your mind outta the gutter)

3 – The No-Comment Doctors’ Names List:

  • Dr. Young-Hyman
  • Dr. Fatterpaker

Thanks again for all of your contributions. Here’s an article from American Medical News with some names I didn’t list and with more info about Dr. Richard Chopp’s marketing efforts. Dr. Chopp, if you happen to read this, I’d love to interview you for our GiggleMed Medical Humor Blog readers.

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