A Mid-City man who underwent a CT scan for stomach issues says he was left quietly devastated after discovering the report described his reproductive organs as “unremarkable.”
“I guess I just didn’t expect to see that in writing,” the man, who asked not to be identified due to immense shame and whose name is Keith Melancon and lives on S. Pierce, explained. “You spend your whole life assuming there’s at least something noteworthy happening down there.”
The man reportedly spent several minutes rereading the sentence and several more hours staring at the word “unremarkable,” wondering how it had ever gotten to this point.
In medical terminology, the phrase simply means nothing appeared abnormal, unhealthy, or concerning and has nothing to do with impressiveness or lack thereof.
The patient has since described the experience as “good, I guess, but I wish they’d use better terminology. Like, why not ‘perfect’ or ‘nice’? I can get behind that.”