A New Kind Of Dysfunction

While reading my patient's history, I found a condition that was knew to me, rectal dysfunction. Perhaps, it was a fancy term for incontinence of stool. I showed it to my coworkers and they had never heard of rectal dysfunction either.

While charting my assessment of the patient, I saw that the prior nurse had written under the GI section that the patient had rectal dysfunction. I burst out laughing because I had figured out what the doctor really dictated, the Viagra in the medication section was a tip off. The doctor dictated erectile dysfunction and the transcriber heard rectal dysfunction.

That's probably going to remain in his medical history forever and everyone who treats him in the future is probably going to think that there is something wrong with his rectum.

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My computer keeps telling me boooooo! Last week it was saying Happy Halloween. It's always saying something at odd intervals. I have an odd computer.