Fao Sqad

[Marijn]

Hello Sqad, please could you tell me what "pleasant lady" means when it is written on the letter from the consultant to the GP. I am aware that doctors use code between each other, and wondered what this one meant. Thank you.

[jennyjoan]

I am not the pheasant plucker I am the pheasant's plucker's son I only pluck the pheasants till the present pheasant plucker comes. Say it quick.

Marijn - sorry for digressing. LOL

[Marijn]

"Tiny lady" is cute. :)

[jennyjoan]

she was very cute Marijn and very very witty and a songstress.

[Peter Pedant]

surely slaney you were nt a real doctor but just a haematologist ?

hur hur hur - just coding .... will we (I) be seeing you on 16 OCt 16 ? more code
( along with your famous husband ) ...... code

as for myself I relapsed a bout a year ago ( rt orbit ) and got salvage chemotherapy ( oo er !) R - G - CVP ( even more oo-er ) and then they nailed my head to the floor and gave me 40 Gy radiotherapy to the said right orbit and then said " right you're cured within the meaning of this conversation " and sent me out. That advert for the cancer charity is just like it only I didnt get eye holes in my mask .....

Radford the long suffering oncologist - oh did you read his invited editorial in the New England Journal Dec 26 2015 ? told me he didnt really expect me to get this far.

I mean doctors can write the unvarnished truth and no one understands without using code doncha think ? certainly on AB

see ya 16th hopefully - code ends pip! pip!

[woofgang]

there were/are code phrases....do you remember on here someone with a hand problem and one of the doctors suggesting that the problem was “supra tentorial” which Sqad found amusing as its doctor code for “all in the mind” as I recall, and I can’t remember who the poster was, it turned out to be a neurological problem and not imagined.

[woofgang]

isn’t google clever?
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Health-and-Fitness/Question1268519.html

[slaney]

Apologies to Marjin for digression...

Hi Peter. Ha!
I remember a surgeon coming into lab and saying in astonishment "you actually see and treat patients?"

Very glad you are in remission- has the VCR neuropathy gone?

16/10 - don't have the code for that :)

[woofgang]

also here
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Health-and-Fitness/Question1256611.html

[Sqad]

Hi! Marijn.
No, no "national" code used by Consultants, just the personal phrases oft used by individuals.
"pleasant lady" is a compliment....why look for hidden meanings?
Some Consultants would say "Thank you for referring this old trout" others might say," he is the original Mr Magoo"...remember doctors are human and have human failings as anybody else and can get p.ssed off and this is reflected in their nomenclature sometimes.

Medicine is a different animal now, the patient's notes are not the property of the Health Authority, but of the patients themselves, so one has to be careful what one writes.

No Marijn.....no ulterior meaning or sinister connotations.

[murraymints]

when working in benefit we had code..none of which I can repeat !

[NoMercy]

I work for a consultant who sees almost exclusively women in his Breast Oncology Clinic. Almost every new patient letter starts, "Thanks you for referring this pleasant lady for consideration of adjuvant chemotherapy."

No hidden meaning.

One consultant at my hospital once wrote, "Thank you for referring this old boiler who presented today wearing more makeup than all the nurses in the hospital put together."

And one surgeon from my previous hospital dictated a letter which went, "I reviewed this 65 year-old lady in Clinic today who presented with a 6-month history of right hand pain. There's nothing wrong with her *** hand, it's her *** head that needs examining."

I was listening to that through my headphones and nearly choked.

[Sqad]

Morning murray.
In Op's my instructions to the nurses were for female patients:

If the patient "shuffled in" with a stick....then the junior saw her.
If the patient had flat shoes and a miserable face.....the registrar saw her.
If the patient had high heels and blouse and skirt (particularly silk blouse)......then I saw her.

Seemed to have worked out quite well.

[murraymints]

morning Sqad !! hmmmm....sounds par for the course ! lol xx

[Eve]

I've had it in quite a few letters, think it's a common nice start to a letter. I thought it was nice.

[murraymints]

one of dad's discharge papers read "exceptionally pleasant gentleman of 80 years " ah...that's my dad !!

[Cloverjo]

That's lovely Murraymints.
My son was described as Finnish in one of his consultant's letters. I don't know where that came from.

[Tilly2]

....as long as it wasn't 'Finished', Clover!

[Arrods]

OH's letters from Consultants (copied to OH) have ranged from 'pleasant' to 'very nice' lady (which she is). Acquaintance of ours seems to be (sadly)suffering between Munchausens and Hypochondria, such are the number of visits, allergies, procedures and treatments they have been undergoing, with no outward sign of bad health. Trouble is, who's to raise it with them?

[Marijn]

Thank you Sqad, and thanks to everybody. Yes, I do take it as a compliment now that I know it's not code.
And I'm almost sure it was one of Sqad's posts that said there was a code between doctors, where a particular word or acronym means something different to what you'd think it meant (that's what put the query into my mind).
Anyway, I am reassured now thanks to all your answers.