Friday, January 20, 2012

Feet or Fit

I recently came across a documentation which made me ponder for a while as I tried to reason what it meant. A patient had recently been admitted for some sort of infection, details of which I will not reveal too much as this will then lead to the loss of ambiguity. She was treated with the typical sort of antibiotics and later on developed a few episodes of seizures. A documentation or more so put, an entry was highlighted to me as I went through the history of the patient and the progression inward. A forgotten entry, some sort of what I would believe would have happened turned out to be more of a typo which as it is was extremely hilarious.

A person had typed in "no more feet" and I was thinking that perhaps this patient's seizures came in the form of involuntary movement of the foot. However, this was not meant to be as the following sentences didn't have any connection with the first. It was inappropriate. And it took me more than a few minutes to realize that the person had wanted to mean no more "fit". Fit a.k.a. seizures. The rest is history.

To rub it in... here are some pictorial representation:-


This is an episode of a fit



These are a pair of feet

Significantly different meaning by just switching the alphabets or adding in unnecessary letters. Please stop laughing... no... I mean it! =P

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