Tonight, I was reviewing the records sent with a patient from their nursing home. Typed records, of the official sort.
Under allergies: “NKFDA”
Now, I know what NKDA means: No Known Drug Allergies.
I had a guess what the extra F stood for, but was too polite to say it out loud.
It made me chuckle a bit, though.
no known food / drug allergies?
I was thinking “food”, apparently Im not as jaded yet…lol
Hrm, my first thought was not ‘food’ either. Not sure what that says about me.
An orthopedist colleague explained his acronym for a comminuted distal radius fracture: BBMFB
Which means, “Bone broke, me fix bone.”
Actually, we use NKDA/NKFA all the time… And, yes, we mean the “F” to be food.. (although I chuckled when I first read this post, too)