[Slings and Arrows]

Actual? Doubt it. Funny? Yes.

Also, click here for an article I didn't dare post.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping, stat!

[pcottraux]

Rectal exam revealed a normal size thyroid.

Must have really gone in there deep.

[colorcountry]

Thanks for posting. I needed a laugh.

[Darksheare]

"When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room"

Now THAT sounds like my family.

[StarCMC]

ROFL -- from your link...

Jack Burnicle was talking about Colin Edwards' tyre choice on World Superbike racing:

I actually understood that -- love Colin Edwards. Could I get on your not a ping list??

[DocRock]

*snicker*

[3catsanadog]

I bet this happens alot - American medical transcriptionists trying to interpret what foreign doctors are saying.

[EagleMamaMT]

I have no doubt these medical report bloopers are real. I have been a medical transcriptionist for 25 years. I assure you doctors can sometimes put together some really crazy sentences - especially when they're dictating right after a long complex surgery and are tired. Correcting their lousy grammar and mixed up tenses is a very time-consuming job.

Case in point: One time, I was transcribing a total hip replacement for an orthopedic surgeon. Right in the middle of the report, he got confused about the type of report he was dictating. He began dictating a shoulder replacement surgery. At least, I hope he was confused...otherwise, that was one VERY strangly constructed man he was operating on! :)