Language Skills Worksheet #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."

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"Temperature was 96 percent."

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"He does live with his wife here in San Francisco and works as a dish water at the XYZ Restaurant."

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"The hand was exsanguinated using an eschar wrap."

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"The patient had diminuted pulses."

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"The patient received a definite hernia repair."

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"The greater trochanter was placed inside the abdomen."

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"Temperature was 96 per minute."

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"The patient reports that following her MBA she developed chest pain."

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