Ethic

A Senior Medical Officer asked us not to post personal comment on the case notes, at most elaborate in blogs. Therefore, I write down this incidence here.

Today I came across a case note of a 35-year-old woman. A doctor from another specialty had attended a consultion ("consult") of her. You know what had the doctor put down? Here it is, quoted verbatim:

Height = 1.51 m, Weight = 94 kg
Very very very very very OBESE!!!

So immoral, so naive, and so pathetic.

I had delibrately counted the number of "very" in the case note, it was really five, I remembered it clearly, no cheat.