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: _____________