03.10.09
Medical Mistakes
In real life, medical mistakes are no joke. But on the pages of fiction, medical mistakes and misspellings can be hilarious.
John was rushed to the hospital in intensitive care. He was suffering from a comma and kept coming in and out of conscience. His breathe was gravely, his heart beat unregular. He has an infection in his lounges, the Dr. thought and he might not make it thru the night. The put an ivy in his arm and pumped in saltines continually. When his mother came to see him the site was just offal. All those tubs and machines. She cried and cried. How much more could she bare? They said they would have to go through his juggler vein to reach his kidney. She made a jester of despair in sadness. Then, miraculously, John’s eyes flitted upon and he woke up and said good morning. They took all the ivy and tubs off and he went home right away.
I hope none of you ever experiences a tragedy of this magnitude. Be comforted in the knowledge that it is extremely unusual for so much unpleasantness to visit one person in one paragraph. And if you’ve ever been hospitalized for any reason, you will immediately recognize this paragraph’s most glaring mistake: “he went home right away.” Everyone knows it takes approximately twenty-seven hours to be discharged from a hospital after even the most minor illness or injury.
(As always, the misspellings are real examples of errors I have corrected in my travels, but the exact context and story are of my own creation.)
