collection day

i read about this book in (where else) harper's magazine and i confess i am intrigued. a novel of vowels. a weird exercise. i might just have to go there.

today was something of a banner day for dictator goofs. i wanted to post a couple. will anyone else be as entertained as i?

just dumb stuff, making it clear the dictators don't listen to themselves when they talk. example: a patient was in the emergency room because she had abscesses on her buttocks from muscling heroin. (yum!) so the dictator says, under the "social history" heading, "She is employed. She is a smoker. She injects heroin; she muscles two to three times a day. She denies any alcohol or illicit drug use." i suppose heroin doesn't count as an illicit drug?

in my typing, i corrected this. someone owes me a thank-you.

incidentally, i've never tried heroin. i'm sure many were curious regarding that issue. i'm not keen on needles. i had my annual tb test this week and even that weeny needle makes me wince.

an emergency room physician who is at the end of his shift says, of a teenage patient who came in quite intoxicated, "The patient will be signed out to Dr. (so-and-so), who will dictate the addendum when he sobers up." diagram that! see? this is why sentence structure is important.

and this isn't really a goof, but just kind of amusing. this is the first line of the report: "This is a ... lady with a history of ongoing psychosis who was initially seen by the crisis triage mental health professional today because her family could not cope with her any more."

i just like it when the dictators break down and tell it how it is. and i'm not saying definitively that the person sobering up is not dr so-and-so, rather than the patient.

that's it, for now. probably not as funny in the setting of a blog than while i was at work. sorry. i'm going to go change out the cat litter and bring the garbage and recycling to the curb. tomorrow is collection day. i love the day before collection day.

and it's my weekend, which is nice. tomorrow i'm just going to tidy the house up a bit, do a little writing and a little reading, and wait for the cable guy to show up.

ooh, it just stopped raining, so i better get going. bye.