how your transcriptionist could screw you

so i see this patient last week with Behcets - with uveitis and genital ulcers. In my dictation i mentioned that the patient had "circumcised genitalia with a 1X1cm scrotal ulcer". The transcriptionist sends back my letter with the note that the patient had circus sized genitalia.....( and this is a true story, not a readers digest joke)

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Anonymous said…
And what kind of tent did he use as underwear?? :D
3:16 PM
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