Re: Has anyone heard of "Girth Pain?"

I'm spending time on it because I want to make sure than any report that has
my initials on it makes as much sense as it possibly can, and learn as much
as I can in the process. In the past 2 weeks, he's dictated several
prostate exams on females, said a patient has had surgery in March 2006 and
'subsequently' reinjured himself in September 2006, had a retired 26 year
old, O2 sats below 80%, given me half a day's op reports with names cut out
of the dictation, stated a patient's chief complaint was neck pain but the
exam focused on the lumbar spine, etc. And that's just off the top of my
head. If I were to blindly believe that he meant what he said, the reports
would be a mess and I would look like an idiot for letting it go through,
and it could end up being dangerous or costly to the patient. Part of the
job he trusts me to do is to catch any instances that he might have
misspoken & ask him to verify. I've had the office confirm that a patient
is "gravida 0, para 3" and insist that was correct (that one I didn't let go
until they looked it up). The problem is, the doctor doesn't know each
instance that happens, and instead thinks it must be a typo on my part if I
don't question it. Have you really always had dictators that said exactly
what they meant?

Normally I could just as the doctor and he's happy to explain the occasional
new expression, but I want him focusing on the reports. And the laypeople
have been just as confused by the usage of that term as I was, so I turn to
the only experts I know.

I just didn't think that "girth pain" made sense in the same way that "neck
pain," "arm pain," or "leg pain" does. From all the definitions I've known,
it sounded analogous to a patient having "width pain." Or if a guy's spine
hurt, they could say they had "height pain." Obviously that's not correct,
so I was hoping somebody else thought this at first & could clue me in on a
different way of looking at it. I've never come across the term, but I only
did gastroenterology for a year for 2 doctors, so I don't have that much
exposure. Just because I don't know it doesn't mean it's wrong - just means
I can learn something. The sites that you listed referred to increased
abdominal girth, which is where I got that from.


"Blupencl" <Blupencl.2wpkgt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Blupencl.2wpkgt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Should've clarified - if I were to recast the sentence in those
examples, it
would be as "increased abdominal girth, abdominal pain, and ascites."
No?

Why would you spend one second on this? He said what he meant and I
didn't see a word in your OP about increased abdominal girth. He meant
the guy's belly hurt around the middle. That's all. Why would you
recast it?

I am bumfuzzled. What was the matter with the original thing? I'm going
back to read and see if I missed something.


--
Blupencl


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