Diagnosis Humor
Growing up the daughter of a college English professor I quickly learned the power, beauty, and often humor of the written word. A well written poem is as brilliant to me as a famous painting. One task I have at work is to read the nurse's and doctor's notes charted on my patient before performing the ordered exam.
The reasons why people come to our ER are often a bit humorous but how this is interpreted and written is where the true laughs lie. For example, we had a patient brought in with a Police escort but no where in the notes could I find out why. As I read further she was complaining of abdominal pain and the associated nausea and vomiting. Charted was that she had a nemesis.
I quickly began to laugh out loud wondering if she had actually vomited or if she perhaps got into a fight and thus her Police escort. Something so seemingly simple as misplaced letter spacing between words provides me a great deal of entertainment during an otherwise busy and stressful shift and for this I thank my mother.