I just got alerted to a new admission, I go onto the computer, click to see what the issue is-- the computer tells me reason for admission: Patient deceased.
I call up the ICU to ask what's going on with this patient-- did someone put in the wrong code, why am I getting a patient who the computer says is already dead?
"Oh, it must be a mistake," the ICU tells me-- we'll check what happened and fix it. Ten minutes later I get paged again-- yeah, cancel that admission, the computer was right. Oops.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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would you like to be the next doctor oz?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I got a page a while back to let me know a patient had died, then a follow up page to say "sorry, i was wrong"
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