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Contact Horse on a Mattress

"Horse on a--What?"

"Horse on a Mattress" is a classic medical transcription blooper that magically transformed the mundane dictation of "horizontal mattress [suture]".

Did this recumbent equine ever actually appear on a patient chart? I'd like to think so. In that spirit I present these medical transcription goofs and fails, including the random whacko dadaist craziness produced by speech recognition technology. The entries are all real; I couldn't make them up.

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