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Know any medical slang?
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Posted 4 months ago Here's a few slang med terms: UBI: unexplained beer injury gorillacillin: potent antibiotic FLK: funny-lookin' kid LOBNH: lights on but nobody home
Got one?
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| Posted 4 months ago ATBBFDW: appears to be breathing from door way. MD gave this one to me one really rushed day. I still can't find out if JACHO approves it though. |
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| Posted 4 months ago The nurses had one for the soap suds enema. High hot and helluva lot. Colleen |
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| Posted 4 months ago Still have a doctor that orders enemas "give HHH enmas" |
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| Posted 4 months ago GPO: good for parts only. |
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| Posted 4 months ago When your pt is really sick they could be either FTD'ing fixing to die OR CTD'ing circling the drain When your pt needs a ride back to the nursing home you call the Horizontal taxi service..........ambulance ride to the nursing home FOS......could be literal as in constipated or figurative...full of sh**
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| Posted 4 months ago Doclings - the new crop of interns that come in every July and follow the fellows around everwhere they go LOLINAD - Little Old Lady in No Apparent Distress ETILGAM tattoo - the indentation of a flashlight logo on one's forehead after pissing off a cop (MAGLITE spelled backwards) Vitamin H - Haldol Milk of Amnesia - Propofol
Ted "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand |
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| Posted 4 months ago total, as in The patient is a total--he needs everything done for him, he can't do anything for himself. |
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| Posted 4 months ago FHA- full hygenic arrest! |
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| Posted 4 months ago tdage says ...
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| Posted 4 months ago gas passer: anesthesiogist rear admiral: proctologist slasher: surgeon gomer: (1) get out of my emergency room; (2) patient with dementia; (3) dirty or repulsive patient rule of five: patient is a goner if he has more than five tubes coming out of his body |
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| Posted 4 months ago ohno moment: the moment you realize you made a mistake. cephosplat: this stuff will kill any germ. |
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| Posted 4 months ago The big G....... Geodon Vitamin H.........Haldol Some pt's you just wanna give them..............Tthe pillow treatment (never seriously tho ..lol) WWW..................Wee willy whiner |
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| Posted 4 months ago Doc in a box: small health-care center. Yoyo: you're on your own WWI: walking while intoxicated ADR: ain't doing right Fanger: oral surgeon |
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| Posted 4 months ago fubar......f'ked up beyond all recognition mostly trauma related injury tbly.........the bus left yesterday..........patient hanging on by a thread siitand someone is in there, but no one's driving or edgttf........elevator doesn't go to the top floor sfotp.........smelliest feet on the planet fob........full of bugs Deb
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| Posted 4 months ago Jamaican heartbeat......a heart that beats to it's own rythmn usually irregular frequent flyer.........a pt that is a regular 'customer' with frequent complaints |
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| Posted 4 months ago bomb - mixture of laxatives guaranteed to cause an explosion Wanda |
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| Posted 4 months ago We still use FTD or CTD amongst ourselves, but we also say he's giving us the O sign or Q sign (O=mouth wide open Q=mouth open, tongue out to side, as if ready to move on); also I heard one of our MDs order a "gerifix" for one of our little ladies, whose family wasn't satisfied that she just had a cold: amoxicillin, HCTZ and Duonebs...this was about 10 years ago...don't think that would fly now, but who knows. |
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| Posted 4 months ago CATS........Cut All To Sh** BATS........Beat All To Sh** BOHICA........Bend Over, Here It Comes Again BOHICA-WOKY........Bend Over, Here It Comes Again Without KY SNAFU.......Situation Normal, All F'd Up BART.......Body Assuming Room Temperature Samsonitis......Situation where the pt. meets the ambulance at the road or on the porch with a packed suitcase Pittersplatter......pedestrian VS. vehicle (pedestrian lost) AMI.....Acute Mindless Irritation |
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| Posted 4 months ago tdage says ...
LOL!!! Love the "doclings!" I have seen this first hand!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago PIA- pain in the a$$ DFO-done fell out
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| Posted 3 months ago MD progress note I will never forget.........pt. dx was questionable....possible mets to stomach, liver, pancreas, colon?.....doc writes "clearly, the reason for this admission was merely a plumbing problem!!!" |
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| Posted 3 months ago laughed out loud from these thanks!
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| Posted 3 months ago my personal fav....after having a colectomy last fall I'm now a "semi-colon;" |
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| Posted 2 months ago Geriatric doctor who routinely orders: Dookilous Suppos. one Rectally, PRN for constipation This is true. She acts like she doesn't get what is so funny. She does. She loves to see reactions in the new nurses when the open a chart and see that order. Funny but true Redneck I is...but bigot I taint! |
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| Posted 2 months ago These are brilliant! I think I may use some of these when the situation calls for it! Thanks! "a day without freckles is like a night without stars" |
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| Posted 2 months ago In our OB department, we have one we use sometimes... "status SP" for stinky p*ssy and im not trying to spell pissy..lol |
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| Posted 2 months ago I work in LTC: One of our doc came at 10pm the last day of the month to sign orders. He was tired. Since he was there we asked him to see a patient who was having a change of mental status. She had a hx of bladder infections. He wrote the following in his progess note. ...Pt with change in mental status, c/o "the nurse stole my remote". plan: obtain UA C&S- remote found by nurseing Redneck I is...but bigot I taint! |
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| Posted 2 months ago FLKBIBFLP: funny looking kid brought in by funny looking parents
FLH: fat lady hands We only have one heart, take care of it! Angie |
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| Posted 2 months ago B52 injections are great if you ever work with pysch patients (2mg ativan 5mg haldol) umm when someone is passing we always say the plane is circling and flyin low. haha i had to send a lady out to the hospital a couple weeks ago bc she had a bun of 147 creatnine was 3.8 and potassium was 5.9. so when she comes back to the hospital im reading her er notes. and the doctor stated. "ECF found criitcal labs on pt. (RE: BUN creatnine and potassium) and started her on iv fluids. I am not quite for sure why they started her on those. i about died laughing. so then i go down read the plan of care for her. and the same doctor says we will start her on iv fluids and admit her with dehydration and acute renal failure!!!
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i know that doctor is special huh! ;)