BCrandall
Guru
This is a good one....
Dr referenced "metalosis" twice in the op note, once in the post op diagnosis and again in the body of the note as "culture taken (from the knee prosthesis, prior TKA) of the fluid showed darkened staining consistent with metalosis"
Now comes the best part. I looked thru Dorland's, Merck, Merriam Webster, WebMD, etc then finally googled "metalosis" and found that it's a disease made up by a "mockumentary" filmmaker on you tube which is quite clever. It had me going for a while.
So I'm looking for any ideas what the doc may have meant, I'm leaning towards a reaction to the metal prosthesis but haven't found anything yet.
If nothing else I got a good laugh...
Dr referenced "metalosis" twice in the op note, once in the post op diagnosis and again in the body of the note as "culture taken (from the knee prosthesis, prior TKA) of the fluid showed darkened staining consistent with metalosis"
Now comes the best part. I looked thru Dorland's, Merck, Merriam Webster, WebMD, etc then finally googled "metalosis" and found that it's a disease made up by a "mockumentary" filmmaker on you tube which is quite clever. It had me going for a while.
So I'm looking for any ideas what the doc may have meant, I'm leaning towards a reaction to the metal prosthesis but haven't found anything yet.
If nothing else I got a good laugh...