The Secret Language of (American) Doctors
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2024
- A physician discusses common slang among medical professionals.
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There is a joke among auto mechanics about doctors. Doctors get to bury their mistakes, mechanics have to fix their mistakes for free. 😂
This GOMER really mailed it in today.
During Med 3, we had one of the residents tell us that a certain patient needed a lot of TLC. Being the wet-behind the ear medical student, I eagerly asked her what TLC meant expecting a 5 minute pharmacology lecture on some drug I've never heard before. TLC apparently means "Tender, Love and Care". Basically, being extra empathetic and caring to the overly anxious patient who doesn't have anything serious to get them to calm down.
Haven't heard "pop drop" but rather "tuck and roll" after the phrase "Tuck and roll Grandma!" from the MTV Sports: Pure Ride video game commercial from the early 2000s in which the driver taking his grandma to her doctor appointment doesn't even stop at the office, just pushes her out the moving car while advising her to "tuck and roll"
Must be a lot or regional variation in this. I worked in hospital medicine for years and never heard most of these. There's always that one guy who loves to chase zebras, though.
Next ...the secret writing of doctors
In our hospital, we said "P cubed" for "piss poor protoplasm"
This reminds me of something funny I read recently. In the 13th century, Arnaldus de Villa Nova wrote “On the Precautions that Physicians Must Observe” treatise, where he discusses how physicians should BS their patients to increase their own prestige.
there were a couple here I'd never heard, and I laughed so loud at your straight-face description of "Code Brown" Bravo, Sir.
I presented with an incidentaloma and a fascinoma one time! CC was severe R side pain and they found a 13mm kidney stone on my left side. I was damn near handing out autographs.
Sam Shem's House of God was introduced to me by an MD I worked with who had it as required reading in Med School. Such a great book.
Adding to the “cloud” nomenclature, I’d like to add “purple”, i.e. gets all the weird admissions (i.e. case report worthy)…which can mix with black and white clouds
"Supratentorium" can be ruled out because it's probably not technically correct (the worst kind of correct). Cerebellar lesions have increasingly been correlated with obsession, anxiety, and illogical thought processes-Schmahmann 2010 has a great review. Everyone thinks of it as a motor structure, but its functions are pretty diverse, and motor symptoms are merely especially conspicuous. So since it's one of the perhaps minorly offensive or dismissive ones, maybe it can be reappropriated for an opportunity to lecture about cerebrocerebellar connectivity and all its subtlety.
Lol... Some of these are actually new to me. Pop drop, wall/sieve.
I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals in the last 5 years because of the need to bring my elderly parents in for care. This video explained some of the (I thought non-medical) questions we would hear during triage in the ER.
I was a fascinoma once. It was fun! I had severe reactions to poison ivy as a kid. Age 18, I was having one. My whole face was swollen and bloody. In admitting, the nurse asked what the other guy looked like. I said it wasn’t a fight, it’s poison ivy. While in ER, everyone on the floor came by to see such a violent presentation. I explained to like two dozen students that this was the worst reaction I’d ever had, but not uncommon.
Nice video.
Thank you
I work in Internal Med in Canada and have never heard most of these slang terms. Wild.
I am a Spanish speaking MD.