Doctor's Slang [Archive]

Cobbydaler

25-09-2008, 20:54

Wonder if Salu ever used to do this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3159813.stm)? :erm:

Yes, I know the article's from 2003 but I'd not heard some of them before...

Ramrod

25-09-2008, 21:04

We were taught to never use those types of abbreviations as patients have a right to have copies of their own notes.....
....anyway, they are derogatory and should thus never even be thought about patients, much less recorded in their notes...

Maggy

25-09-2008, 21:09

Frankly there are many 'patients' who are even less flattering to members of the medical professions particularly on a Friday or Saturday night at the A&E.

Ramrod

25-09-2008, 21:13

Frankly there are many 'patients' who are even less flattering to members of the medical professions particularly on a Friday or Saturday night at the A&E.Agreed, but doctors should rise above that....imo...

Maggy

25-09-2008, 21:18

Agreed, but doctors should rise above that....imo...

Well I can forgive someone who has been awake on and off for up to 50 hours...Especially if they can make me feel better...;)

Derek

25-09-2008, 21:24

Agreed, but doctors should rise above that....imo...

There is only so much of spitting, violent, deranged and drunk people you can take. Doctors and other professions that come into contact with them regularly need someway to release the pressure.
Sometimes there really is only so much you can take.

punky

25-09-2008, 21:56

Some of the terms are brilliant though. Its a shame its dying out.

Wicked_and_Crazy

25-09-2008, 23:05

Some of those terms breach the Data Protection Act. Opinions about people shouldn't be recorded unless they can be substantiated

Caff

26-09-2008, 03:15

I wonder what the medics would make of us lot :D

Nothing too flippant I'd hope.

Maggie - I'd never forgive a 'trusted professional' again if I knew that they thought, and recorded, like that :(

Ramrod

26-09-2008, 06:47

There is only so much of spitting, violent, deranged and drunk people you can take. Doctors and other professions that come into contact with them regularly need someway to release the pressure.
Sometimes there really is only so much you can take.I agree with you re. abusive drunks but things like writing 'NFN' if a person is deemed to be a bit thick is a bit much......

Maggy

26-09-2008, 06:48

I wonder what the medics would make of us lot :D

Nothing too flippant I'd hope.

Maggie - I'd never forgive a 'trusted professional' again if I knew that they thought, and recorded, like that :(

Who is Maggie? ;)

Just as well you can't hear what teachers say about their pupils then..or the police..or firemen about the yobs who attack them..or VM techies about customers or anyone else who has a particularly stressful job dealing directly with the public.

I never visit any of the sites set up for pupils to moan and attack teachers..they apparently are quite vicious.

As long as such people are respectful to my face I'm not going to worry about what they say behind my back...Life is way too short.;)

Graham M

26-09-2008, 09:34

Who is Maggie? ;)

http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/gallery/images/MaggieSimpson3.gif

:)

Hugh

26-09-2008, 10:41

Who is Maggie? ;)
I thought

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/09/29.jpg (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/02_02/thatcherMOS240207_228x315.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-438281/Revealed-Red-Army-colonel-dubbed-Maggie-Iron-Lady---changed-history.html&h=315&w=228&sz=17&hl=en&start=3&sig2=PkyEfjBueE3f1JdeqLe9tQ&usg=__U_JbAFm1zUu4145YZhQvlVoDfZ8=&tbnid=ylMm6L363MOMgM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=85&ei=Iq7cSMCPLp6i0wS1uInxDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmaggie%2Bthatcher%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den %26safe%3Doff)

was more apt....... ;)

Wicked_and_Crazy

26-09-2008, 12:29

I thought

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/09/29.jpg (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/02_02/thatcherMOS240207_228x315.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-438281/Revealed-Red-Army-colonel-dubbed-Maggie-Iron-Lady---changed-history.html&h=315&w=228&sz=17&hl=en&start=3&sig2=PkyEfjBueE3f1JdeqLe9tQ&usg=__U_JbAFm1zUu4145YZhQvlVoDfZ8=&tbnid=ylMm6L363MOMgM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=85&ei=Iq7cSMCPLp6i0wS1uInxDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmaggie%2Bthatcher%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den %26safe%3Doff)

was more apt....... ;)

Read my mind ;)

Druchii

26-09-2008, 12:33

http://www.wow-clips.com/images/Magtheridon.jpg

altis

26-09-2008, 12:35

Doctor, doctor, I think I have problems with my hearing.

What are the symptoms?

They're those yellow people on TV, aren't they.

Caff

27-09-2008, 02:49

Who is Maggie? ;)

Just as well you can't hear what teachers say about their pupils then..or the police..or firemen about the yobs who attack them..or VM techies about customers or anyone else who has a particularly stressful job dealing directly with the public.

I never visit any of the sites set up for pupils to moan and attack teachers..they apparently are quite vicious.

As long as such people are respectful to my face I'm not going to worry about what they say behind my back...Life is way too short.;)

Skulking off to DT now..

...and apologies for mis-spelling your name :)

Alien

27-09-2008, 19:52

Wonder if Salu ever used to do this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3159813.stm)? :erm:

Yes, I know the article's from 2003 but I'd not heard some of them before...
Neither have I. It's interesting though, linguistically. TTFO would be the past-tense version of GTFO, & GLM is an old-fashioned equivalent of MILF. The 1 I don't get is the Woolworths reference.

punky

27-09-2008, 20:53

It literally just means if you they are fit enough to be up and shopping, their bodies can survive a general anaesthetic.

Alien

27-09-2008, 21:04

It literally just means if you they are fit enough to be up and shopping, their bodies can survive a general anaesthetic.
Oh, I see. Thanks, that 1 had me puzzled. :tu:

Cobbydaler

27-09-2008, 21:16

It literally just means if you they are fit enough to be up and shopping, their bodies can survive a general anaesthetic.

Actually, I think it means if you shop in Woolworths then your intellect is suspect & anaesthetic won't adversely affect it... ;)

punky

27-09-2008, 21:21

I defer to the sBMJ (http://student.bmj.com/issues/02/07/education/225.php) on this...

The use of terms such as the "Woolworth's test" (an anaesthetist may claim that if you can imagine bumping into the patient in Woolworth's then the patient is fit for an anaesthetic)

Salu

02-10-2008, 17:18