1/26/2006

have patients

here are quite brief descriptions of the jobs i transcribed today.

  • an inpatient radiation oncology consultation for a 60-year-old female with a metastatic lung carcinoma status post radiation therapy and chemotherapy, with new brain metastases.
  • an echocardiogram for a 90-year-old man who'd had a tia (transient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke).
  • an outpatient pediatric cardiothoracic surgery consultation for a 36-day-old male with tetraology of fallot and trisomy 21 (aka down syndrome).
  • an electroencephalogram for a 50-year-old male status post motor vehicle accident.
  • a cardiovascular disease consultation for a 77-year-old male with heart failure.
  • an operative report - a 39-year-old male underwent an epididymal nodule excision.
  • an admission history and physical examination for a 56-year-old female with chest pain.
  • an operative report - a 27-year-old female underwent a cystoscopy with hydrodistention due to interstitial cystitis.
  • an emergency department note for a 30-year-old female with a sore throat.
  • an emergency department note for a 102-year-old male who fell and sustained a laceration on his hand and one on his face.
  • an operative report - a 35-year-old female gave birth.
  • an emergency department note for a 13-year-old male who was hit with a rock and sustained a 1-cm laceration on his vermilion border.
  • an emergency department note for a 40-year-old female with right shoulder pain.
  • an emergency department note for a 1-year-old female with otitis media and an upper respiratory infection.
  • an emergency department note for an 18-year-old female with right knee and left hand pain.
  • an emergency department note for a 25-year-old female with abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.
  • an operative report - a 5-year-old female with chronic bilateral serous otitis media and obstructive adenoid hyperplasia underwent a bilateral myringotomy with tubes and an adenoidectomy.
  • an emergency department note for a 78-year-old female with a bladder obstruction status post urologic surgery.
  • an emergency department note for a 23-year-old female with spider bites.
  • an operative report - an 11-year-old male with exotropia of dissociative vertical divergence underwent recession of the lateral rectus muscle in both eyes and anterior transposition of the inferior oblique muscles in both eyes.
  • an emergency department note for a 43-year-old female with a viral illness.
  • an operative report - a 24-year-old female desired permanent sterilization and underwent bilateral tubal ligation.
  • an operative report - a 67-year-old male with carotid artery stenosis underwent a carotid endarterectomy.
  • an emergency department note for a 33-year-old female with dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
  • an emergency department note for a 33-year-old female with hypocalcemia secondary to a recent thyroidectomy.
this is what i'm up against.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you did all of that in one day?? good god.

my first reaction was "there's a hella lot that can go wrong with us". then my second reaction was "how long did it take alex to learn all of those words?"

blue said...

i confess that yesterday was an unusually productive day. i should be that productive every day, but i'm not. yet. and yes, this job has taught me something of our fragility.