English as she is mis-spoke, misread, and miswrote—or, why you should read before you sign

Over the years, I have been amused by how my neurosurgical notes were transcribed. “Losing conciseness” occurs when you descend into a “sinkable episode,” sometimes with loss of “conscientiousness.” It can be accompanied by disorders of “morality of sensation,” such as loss of “radiation.” Some patients describe a “puritan” sensation.

Many are “neurotically” intact but have pain in the “psychiatric nerve.” Examination is confounded by ulnar “innovated” muscles “immutable” to surgical “enervation.” These changes can be “post-dramatic” in patients …