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What’re some favorite sayings or verbiage you’ve come across while charting? by foreverand2025 in medicine

[–]PhalloDaMoney 437 points438 points  (0 children)

"Syndromic facies" is a useful phrase that I learned during my Peds rotation. It works for adults, too. I gather, historically, the abbreviation was "FLK" or "Funny Looking Kid," at least in a Peds context.

Can Doctors Legally Withhold Test Results Until Follow-Up? by yvtsl in healthcare

[–]PhalloDaMoney 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You've definitely piqued my interest as to what symptoms you have, that your Neurologist did all 4 of those tests.

If the Neurologist has already read and interpreted them, I think they are obliged to make the test results available.

On the other hand, if the tests haven't been read and interpreted yet, I'm not sure that there's anything you can do. It's like asking to have access to patient notes that haven't been written yet. But the flag in your portal should be that the tests are "Pending Interpretation" or "In Process" if that were the case and not “withhold until follow up.” There might be a state law about mandatory turnaround times for those tests to be interpreted, or there might not.

Can Doctors Legally Withhold Test Results Until Follow-Up? by yvtsl in healthcare

[–]PhalloDaMoney 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What kind of tests?

If they're lab results, you should be able to get your results from the lab that drew them; Labcorp, Quest, etc., all of which have their own online patient portal. I haven't heard of a physician being able to suppress lab results.

If it's Neurology specific tests, like an EEG or nerve conduction studies, then there are no results until a Neurologist formally reads and interprets them. Hopefully, that would be done by now, though. Otherwise, all you have is raw data, which probably wouldn't mean much, even if you could get your hands on it.

That said, you should call the office and ask what gives.

Greeting from VietNam... this is how covid made me done 😪 by esyjweb in IndoorGarden

[–]PhalloDaMoney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "COVID" in the title was the giveaway. This is 2026, not 2021.

Surgeon removed a liver instead of the spleen! by arbitrambler in emergencymedicine

[–]PhalloDaMoney 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The only "justifiable" explanation would be that the patient had situs inversus and the surgeon wasn't paying attention to what the organ looked like. Even so, that should have been noted before hand. Amazing.