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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Language Skills Worksheets#3


Doctors frequently use the wrong word. This can result in either a grammatically incorrect statement or a raging Malapropism. Each one of these statements was dictated by a licensed physician.
Diagnose what is wrong with the dictating doctor's statement and write your own version of what the physician failed to communicate.
"I had a blood side glucose done at the bed scene."
Diagnosis: ________________
Corrected Text: _____________
"Temperature was 96 percent."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________
"He does live with his wife here in San Francisco and works as a dish water at the XYZ Restaurant."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________
"The hand was exsanguinated using an eschar wrap."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: ____________
"The patient had diminuted pulses."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________
"The patient received a definite hernia repair."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________
"The greater trochanter was placed inside the abdomen."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________
"Temperature was 96 per minute."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________
"The patient reports that following her MBA she developed chest pain."
Diagnosis: _____________
Corrected Text: _____________

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