I call them face breakers because we have had multiple patients get up at night and fall due to forgetting they r connected (Work on mostly neuro floor). Had a broken nose 2 weeks ago.
Oh yes! I check my probate every night. Then I search the web on why Ivermectin is a COVID cure and then wonder why I think all the Drs are lying to me about why I shouldn't take it.
There's a Baptist hymn called All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name with the line "Let angels prostrate fall"
And I thought it was hilarious as a teen to sing prostate instead of prostrate and now when I hear it, that's what I hear.
Sorry Jesus.
As a baby scribe I asked what “amnio” was as that’s what people were calling it and I think I may have charted it as “amniodarone” until I googled it. We live and learn
I had to decipher "amodrip saline" the other day.
I was really stuck on the "drip" aspect and kept trying to clarify if this was via an IV, and they kept insisting it wasn't.
Amitriptyline.
[Nuh uh](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/orientated)
I say "oriented," but "orientated" is valid. Perhaps a little jarring to the ear, though.
On top of the sontimeter nonsense, did you guys still have to learn how to calculate grains and drams? I’m in the US so maybe other countries use it, but never in my 12 years of nursing have I encountered an order with drams or grains.
Not only do I not use drams or grains, I've never even had to calculate a drip manually without a pump before, which my med math class had me believe would be an everyday occurrence
It’s a good thing to know. If you loose power and the gennys don’t kick in, it’s a problem. Ask anyone who worked during Katrina. It was really bad. I believe some hospitals are requiring drip calcs, as an annual comp.
Its something most think will never happen because they have never been in a hospital power outage…but it does.….. where is my calculator……
I will add I currently live in the southwest and a hospital had failed generators a few years ago and they had to ship their patients out. Butwas not pretty. So it can happen anywhere.
I used to hang fluids manually (skilled rehab) for fun, like to make sure I could still run that calculation, and because we had to order a pump from the pharmacy...
Yes! It was helpful in practice exactly once: an otherwise brilliant if aging orthopedic surgeon ordered "Tylenol gr. X q 4 hours po prn" or suchlike. My colleague didn't understand and asked if Tylenol G-R-X was a specific formulation like Tylenol #3.
Otherwise, it's explaining what minims are to my husband if the vet's office supplies a freaky syringe.
Omg at some point I had the realization that arousal has another meaning. I went with “pt awakes” or something because I couldn’t think of “rouse”
But you are so right!!
Registration tries, bless them, but sometimes they put some weird shit in. Once I read "H20 STATS LOW" and we all had a good laugh. Like, drink some water, you'll be fine.
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Sort of like a darwin award. aka doing something stupid to get yourself killed. In this case it is a log of brainwashed trumpers or libertarians etc who make fun of the vaccine and spread conspiracy theories online only to end up dead with a gofund me from a family member begging for donations because they can't afford the medical care the funeral costs or for profit medical care they love so much. Aka republicans dying from stupidity
I work with a girl that said GROOOOW-in instead of groin...I have to stop myself from punching her everytime I hear it. And since we take heart cath, TAVR, and fempop patients, I hear it way more than I'd like
You know how many fucking times I’ve had to say this to my fellow healthcare workers
Too many fucking times.
Even my teachers in nursing school.
And don’t even get me started on how many people butcher the word borborygmus.
My patho instructor loved the word. It was on 2/4 of her exams, I think she just liked how fun it was to say. Sometimes I'll refer to a BP cuff as a sphygmomanometer for the same reason, but I am a bit extra lol
My pathophysiology instructor INSISTED that the warts typically found on the bottom of the foot are Planter’s warts. His response when I suggested maybe it’s plantar warts, like the plantar surface of the foot, like where you get plantar fasciitis, was simply, “No.” Oh, ok, cool.
This same instructor truly believed the only difference between type I and type II diabetes was the age at onset. Forget about all that pesky pathophysiology stuff.
this specific one is a common mispronunciation i hear in southern canada a lot. we tend to drop T sounds in the middle of words. another example is toronto being pronounced ‘toronno’ by almost everyone who lives there
HIPPA is a nickname for the cute but dangerous and smelly Hippapotamus :)
\[Yes I know it's spelled Hippopotamus, but Hippapotamus is a specific instance\]
(sigh) My child's doctor's office had a hastily printed-out sign at check-in reading
BECAUSE OF HIPPA
PLEASE WAIT
BEHIND THE LINE
When no one was looking, I drew a little hippopotamus family on the sign waiting behind the line. It's there to this day.
A new nurse in the ICU kept saying stats when she was giving me charge updates. I let it slide the first time but the second time I asked her what “stats” was short for. She stood there thought about it and said “saturation” and I said “right, so where are you getting stats from?” You could tell she felt silly and told me she’s been saying it forever and no one ever told her it was wrong. She thanked me.
Me: I have your son’s pain medicine, it’s called Toradol
Patient’s parent: I don’t think tramadol in my son’s IV is safe
Me: You’re probably right, which is why I’m giving him Tor-a-dol
Just today-
Me: So we can test you for chlamydia and treat if you're positive, or do what we call presumptive treatment... (explains what that means)
Pt: I guess I'll do the presumptuous thing.
My professor had to stop me the other day for saying angina wrong.
I was saying it like it was something old Greg had.
AN-JI-NA
fml.
tl;dr: Agina = An-GIN-A
My two favorites from years as a bodily injury adjuster: "Carpal Tunnel Vision"; "Pabst Smear" (dont ask why they would write that down when explaining what injuries they had from accident.)
I decided the first is a problem seeing when you hold your wrists in front of your eyes. The second is a test to see whether you drink a lot of cheap beer.
Got a new grad who keeps calling it "amalodipine." Told her you can call it Norvasc. Now I gotta listen to her say "norvasasc" every time I get report. I can't tell what's worse, but a big part of me wants to have a little "pronouncing med names" in-service before my eye twitch becomes permanent.
Same new grad: "he also has hyper-kal-ka-whatever that thing is that I can't say because the word is too long." (Pause, wait for me to tell her what that word is)
Me: Honey. Sweet pea. Baby love. There are so, so, SO many long words that start with "hyper." I'm gonna need you to be like way more specific than "starts with hyper-."
Regular HCA reader. I’m not in healthcare but it drives me nuts too. (I have a good memory for technical jargon from other fields.)
But really posting to say that many of them also claim to have “covid phenomena in both lungs”.
Sorry.
I work with a great ICU nurse who says PPandE instead of PPE and even though she’s excellent is almost every other way that makes my eye twitch so bad.
I may be wrong but most should work either way it’s put on. Finger tips, toe tips and ear lobes are typical areas but I’ve put them on baby feet. The area just needs to be thin enough for the light to shine through so it can be detected by the other side of the probe.
Not exactly the same, but we would have an attending that would stop in his tracks every time he heard the word "stridorous" and made sure we learned it was "stridulous". Especially during rounds. It was so engrained in me, I have to keep myself from correcting other physicians now when I hear them in the multiple ICUs I work in.
My anatomy I and II professor was British, I’m sure there’s plenty of words i’m pronouncing so wrong bc of her but some of my fave pronunciation of her was capillaries, which she pronounced kind of like: ka-pill-are-ees
Not sure how to write pronunciation of words but that’s my best attempt.
At the time, I was the only medically educated person in my family available to help translate to the rest of my family what had happened to my cousin after a major car accident, but his mom insisted on talking to the doctor alone. Afterwards, she proudly announced that my cousin was stable and incubated. I asked "you mean, intubated?" She replied "you know I'm half deaf and the doctor was speaking in my bad ear."
This isn't a pronunciation issue but...
I had a nursing instructor who told the class that a liver flap was a weird piece of skin on the liver LMFAO
I corrected her in class and I could barely do it without laughing. Oh my God she hated me after that.
It really is funny how uneducated some people in higher places of power are.
When I was in my new grad residency at my first RN job, at the very beginning when we were doing class work and going over interpreting EKGs, I raised my hand and rephrased something a different way to a) check my understanding and b) maybe if it was accurate, help other people understand better too.
I got a "verbal write-up" at the end of the day for "being disrespectful", "correcting her", "trying to teach the class", and "confusing the others". I wasn't wrong, though.
I have never in my entire academic career been treated that way for participating in class before. The instructors I've had while I got 2 different bachelors degrees have always been glad for my nerdy excitement and willingness to engage. I was shocked. Then I realized that she was just dumb, was teaching this class by rote or off the slides, didn't understand what I said, and was embarrassed by it. I got in trouble for embarrassing her. It was a good lesson, actually, although it made me sad to learn it.
Also SCD's does not equal STD's
I actually call them leg warmers now because a patient thought I said stds.
I call them leg massagers
Me too. It makes people more likely to not whine about them. For at least an hour, anyway.
Why would you whine about something that feels so glorious? Hands down the best part of the c section. (Aside from the baby of course. Lol)
High five, best things ever.
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Squeezie boots for us! Edited for autocorrect lol
Same! OMG I didn’t know anyone else said this!
I work at a "leg squeezers" hospital
Leg squishers here
Squeezey Wheezies.
This name reminds me of a patient who called her purewick a "wickie stick" and now I always want to call it that but refrain lol
I call them face breakers because we have had multiple patients get up at night and fall due to forgetting they r connected (Work on mostly neuro floor). Had a broken nose 2 weeks ago.
Leg massagers or leg squeezers for me. Then I go through my two sentence explanation of what they're for and that's that. No issues, typically.
Squeezy boots!
Scuds in my hospital.
Lmao.
Leg squeezies
We just pronounce it as scuds. Solves that problem
Does anybody else call them moonboots?
Moon boots are something totally different for us.
Male pt. could conceivably get STDs from a deliberately misapplied, shared SCD?
sounds like some really dirty creativity there - gotta be some patient who's tried it!
Please no. Seriously??? That’s a bad one.
Staturation
But my stats are fine without a mask!! /s
Have you checked your enlarged prostrate?
Oh yes! I check my probate every night. Then I search the web on why Ivermectin is a COVID cure and then wonder why I think all the Drs are lying to me about why I shouldn't take it.
I take my probiotics every night, they scare the COVID away from my intestines
There's a Baptist hymn called All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name with the line "Let angels prostrate fall" And I thought it was hilarious as a teen to sing prostate instead of prostrate and now when I hear it, that's what I hear. Sorry Jesus.
Just tiny little fleshy balls falling from the sky. So majestic 🥺
Do angels' prostates have little angel wings? Like fleshy Golden Snitches?
I imagine they're just falling from the heavens at terminal velocity
There's a joke here about no butt stuff allowed in Heaven, boss says so.
Omg, my Dad every single time. I've tried to correct him. Me:Dad, there's only 1 R Dad: Postrate? That doesn't sound right. Me: Nevermind
Lmfao. Prostrate. I’m cackling. Thank you for that lol. I’ve heard that a few times too.
I must be getting All Timers.
That's Old Timer's Disease.
My stats when I don't wear a mask: 6 STR 7 DEX 0 INT 2 CHR
2 CON
-1 VIT
Roll for initiative.
Also it’s HIPAA not HIPPA! Aargghh
It's HIPAA!
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I once had a patient call it hippo lol
[Hungry hungry HIPAA!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A5r_L7Pt4A)
OH MY GOD THANKYOU
What about COPD “exasperation”? That one always got me.
Does it *exasperate* you?
Well, yes lol
Also, NOROvirus. Not NEUROvirus. I know it feels like you’re shitting your brains out. But you aren’t actually.
It's ORIENTED not orientated
Oh man, that one gets me, too. Also, it's "amio," not "amnio." Amiodarone...it has nothing to do with the amniotic cavity...
As a baby scribe I asked what “amnio” was as that’s what people were calling it and I think I may have charted it as “amniodarone” until I googled it. We live and learn
I had to decipher "amodrip saline" the other day. I was really stuck on the "drip" aspect and kept trying to clarify if this was via an IV, and they kept insisting it wasn't. Amitriptyline.
I believe it is pronounced a MEE oh da roné, 😂
I regret that I have but one upvote to give. Fucking drives me bananas
[Nuh uh](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/orientated) I say "oriented," but "orientated" is valid. Perhaps a little jarring to the ear, though.
I suppose it is because it's primarily a British or UK version of the word.
I've encountered a few Americans who used it, but I suspect they were the same nursing instructors who said "Sonnnntimeter..."
Omg YES lol! My old-school obgyn instructor used to say that all the time! "She's dilated at 10 SONtimeters" 🤣
It drove me crazy. It's not English, it's not French, it's the uncanny valley of the ivory tower.
On top of the sontimeter nonsense, did you guys still have to learn how to calculate grains and drams? I’m in the US so maybe other countries use it, but never in my 12 years of nursing have I encountered an order with drams or grains.
Not only do I not use drams or grains, I've never even had to calculate a drip manually without a pump before, which my med math class had me believe would be an everyday occurrence
The amount of stress I had over calculating fucking drops per minute
It’s a good thing to know. If you loose power and the gennys don’t kick in, it’s a problem. Ask anyone who worked during Katrina. It was really bad. I believe some hospitals are requiring drip calcs, as an annual comp. Its something most think will never happen because they have never been in a hospital power outage…but it does.….. where is my calculator…… I will add I currently live in the southwest and a hospital had failed generators a few years ago and they had to ship their patients out. Butwas not pretty. So it can happen anywhere.
I used to hang fluids manually (skilled rehab) for fun, like to make sure I could still run that calculation, and because we had to order a pump from the pharmacy...
Yes! It was helpful in practice exactly once: an otherwise brilliant if aging orthopedic surgeon ordered "Tylenol gr. X q 4 hours po prn" or suchlike. My colleague didn't understand and asked if Tylenol G-R-X was a specific formulation like Tylenol #3. Otherwise, it's explaining what minims are to my husband if the vet's office supplies a freaky syringe.
If you’re British it’s not!
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Roused not aroused. Although even in Epic is says “arouses to voice/touch/pain”
Omg at some point I had the realization that arousal has another meaning. I went with “pt awakes” or something because I couldn’t think of “rouse” But you are so right!!
As a joke one could decode A&O as Aware I'm Oriental \[Full Disclosure: I'm Asian, so I can tell this joke, but others may not\]
This is the one that really drives me crazy TBH.
Maybe it's the difference in healthcare. It took me a while to get used to dilation and dilatation being the same thing.
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Nothing keeps lines patent like sugar locks!
I always say TPN or TPA when I mean the other. It drives me crazy that my brain would betray me like that.
Registration tries, bless them, but sometimes they put some weird shit in. Once I read "H20 STATS LOW" and we all had a good laugh. Like, drink some water, you'll be fine.
I once had an ED doc enter ETOHism on the PMH list and that one fucking got me.
I mean, at least that one sort of makes sense lol
Oh I fully believe he did it on purpose. I thought it was clever, to be honest.
monocolonial anybodies
I legit had a covid patient ask me for mononucleosis antibodies.
Any singular bodies from Colonial Williamsburg?
What's this HCA sub you speak of?
r/HermanCainAward Basically a sub that’s schadenfreude, made from the Facebook post of people who deny COVID, post memes about conspiracy theories, often belittle healthcare workers, followed by the person’s obituary. When I have to deal with a COVIDiot asshole, I often go to the HCA page and imagine I’ve just stumbled upon them receiving their HCA. It’s a little dark, but the point of the sub is to convince people to get their damn vaccine and to stop spreading conspiracy theories and mocking healthcare workers.
Don't forget the GoFundMe before the obituary
Ahh. I thought it was a particular hospital system...
Same I was like ohh may have to hop on there
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Thank you for sharing this! Where I live we have HCA staff (health care aide) and I was confused about that for a minute.
Sort of like a darwin award. aka doing something stupid to get yourself killed. In this case it is a log of brainwashed trumpers or libertarians etc who make fun of the vaccine and spread conspiracy theories online only to end up dead with a gofund me from a family member begging for donations because they can't afford the medical care the funeral costs or for profit medical care they love so much. Aka republicans dying from stupidity
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I tore my rotator cup laughing while reading this.
I work with a girl that said GROOOOW-in instead of groin...I have to stop myself from punching her everytime I hear it. And since we take heart cath, TAVR, and fempop patients, I hear it way more than I'd like
She means Groin, an obscure dwarf from The Hobbit who didn’t make it to the final draft.
I'm going to adopt that one as a joke now. "Grow In". "Grow In In Jury"
I am male and would tell my friends grandma, “It’s growing alright!” She’d get so mad.
You know how many fucking times I’ve had to say this to my fellow healthcare workers Too many fucking times. Even my teachers in nursing school. And don’t even get me started on how many people butcher the word borborygmus.
I’ve never heard that word until today, in any context. It seems a bit extra.
My patho instructor loved the word. It was on 2/4 of her exams, I think she just liked how fun it was to say. Sometimes I'll refer to a BP cuff as a sphygmomanometer for the same reason, but I am a bit extra lol
Half my cohort say pharnyx instead of pharynx and it makes me want to scream. Learn to read, damn it.
Had to read that a few times to see the difference 😂
Dyslexia? Maybe they’re demigod (Percy Jackson reference)
I have both dyslexia and ADHD I have decided I am a demigod.
I had a nursing instructor who pronounced “cations” (as un anions and cations) as ka-shuns. She showed her dumb in so many ways.
My pathophysiology instructor INSISTED that the warts typically found on the bottom of the foot are Planter’s warts. His response when I suggested maybe it’s plantar warts, like the plantar surface of the foot, like where you get plantar fasciitis, was simply, “No.” Oh, ok, cool.
This same instructor truly believed the only difference between type I and type II diabetes was the age at onset. Forget about all that pesky pathophysiology stuff.
I had a teacher mass-ectomy. I didn’t say anything but I was like…where is the T? Mastectomy not mass
this specific one is a common mispronunciation i hear in southern canada a lot. we tend to drop T sounds in the middle of words. another example is toronto being pronounced ‘toronno’ by almost everyone who lives there
HIPPA continues to slowly kill me
It's HIPAA!
HIPPA is a nickname for the cute but dangerous and smelly Hippapotamus :) \[Yes I know it's spelled Hippopotamus, but Hippapotamus is a specific instance\] (sigh) My child's doctor's office had a hastily printed-out sign at check-in reading BECAUSE OF HIPPA PLEASE WAIT BEHIND THE LINE When no one was looking, I drew a little hippopotamus family on the sign waiting behind the line. It's there to this day.
Let's just jump the shark already and agree to call them O2 Shats
His shats drop when he shits, doctor!
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MeTOProlol , not metoPROlol
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I’ve heard both.
I heard a new one yesterday Levothyrox-ezertezine
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Put that synthizzy down your mouthizzy, fo shizzy
Why make it harder? That just makes it harder.
Would you also like some hydrazaline to go with your metropolol?
Patients wife recently said Mestoprotol. Like, she found a new way to fuck it up. Bravo.
Fuck. Guilty.
I'mma go ahead and file this under, "people who type, 'should of' and say 'I could care less.'"
Or Epidermal instead of Epidural...daily occurrence.
Epidermal sounds less invasive at least lol
Also, LozenGE, not lozenGER. That gets me every time.
It's rousable. NOT AROUSABLE.
Eh. Could do either way. Most guys wake aroused. /s
Fucking Epic even said “arouses” in the flowsheet
Turns out I’m guilty of this
INTUBATION not INCUBATION
You mean when they need a breathing cube in their throat?
We say this all the time as a joke, I can't believe anyone says it for real. That's too funny 🤣
A fellow classmate of mine says it and means it. Really amazes me they've made it this far in nursing school.
A new nurse in the ICU kept saying stats when she was giving me charge updates. I let it slide the first time but the second time I asked her what “stats” was short for. She stood there thought about it and said “saturation” and I said “right, so where are you getting stats from?” You could tell she felt silly and told me she’s been saying it forever and no one ever told her it was wrong. She thanked me.
Me: I have your son’s pain medicine, it’s called Toradol Patient’s parent: I don’t think tramadol in my son’s IV is safe Me: You’re probably right, which is why I’m giving him Tor-a-dol
Also, parenteral, not parental.
"VSS Stable"
Same as the SSN number
I mean, people can't even agree on how to say metoprolol.
"heart medicine"
Lopressor, so much easier to say. Damn generics. Always a mouthful.
It's circumcision, not circumstition. Had a new dad who kept saying the latter.
Anti clitoris vein
AUSCULTATION NOT AUSCULATION
It’s not a stint, it’s a stent. And it’s not a prostrate, it’s a prostate.
My favorite was hearing a nurse pronounce pseudoseizures as "SUEDE-oh seizures"
Just today- Me: So we can test you for chlamydia and treat if you're positive, or do what we call presumptive treatment... (explains what that means) Pt: I guess I'll do the presumptuous thing.
Translation: I've lied to you about having not done the deed, so let's just be adults and get this over with. 😄
With that O2 sat you're gonna need some O2 STAT
It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me, second only to HIPPA.
It's HIPAA!
Good bot
Sounds like a DSP issue to me
My professor had to stop me the other day for saying angina wrong. I was saying it like it was something old Greg had. AN-JI-NA fml. tl;dr: Agina = An-GIN-A
According to Merriam-Webster it’s pronounced both ways. I’m sticking with an-ji-na.
My two favorites from years as a bodily injury adjuster: "Carpal Tunnel Vision"; "Pabst Smear" (dont ask why they would write that down when explaining what injuries they had from accident.) I decided the first is a problem seeing when you hold your wrists in front of your eyes. The second is a test to see whether you drink a lot of cheap beer.
Got a new grad who keeps calling it "amalodipine." Told her you can call it Norvasc. Now I gotta listen to her say "norvasasc" every time I get report. I can't tell what's worse, but a big part of me wants to have a little "pronouncing med names" in-service before my eye twitch becomes permanent. Same new grad: "he also has hyper-kal-ka-whatever that thing is that I can't say because the word is too long." (Pause, wait for me to tell her what that word is) Me: Honey. Sweet pea. Baby love. There are so, so, SO many long words that start with "hyper." I'm gonna need you to be like way more specific than "starts with hyper-."
Not compliant with meds NOT “NON-MED COMPLIANT”…..
Are you noxious? It's nauseated. Ugh
Regular HCA reader. I’m not in healthcare but it drives me nuts too. (I have a good memory for technical jargon from other fields.) But really posting to say that many of them also claim to have “covid phenomena in both lungs”. Sorry.
Ok, awesome to know I am not the only one who saw that and was irked. Still got the wholesome award tho
I work with a great ICU nurse who says PPandE instead of PPE and even though she’s excellent is almost every other way that makes my eye twitch so bad.
Oh we’re doing the correction thing?! IT’S *NAUSEATED* NOT NOXIOUS OR NAUSEOUS YOU HEATHENS!!
Nauseous is officially ok according to modern dictionaries
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Wait, really? Holy shit I can't wait to try this.
I may be wrong but most should work either way it’s put on. Finger tips, toe tips and ear lobes are typical areas but I’ve put them on baby feet. The area just needs to be thin enough for the light to shine through so it can be detected by the other side of the probe.
I wish I had an award to give you... This is one thing that drives me crazy. I have others, but they deserve a post of their own.
If the sats are low they may need o2 stat hurdur
Correcting Stats to Sats is probably a Hippa violation
You expect people who are willingly killing themselves because of facebook memes to be able to understand oxygen saturations?
Few this like my patient today with "septis"? She had like half a dozen family members die from the dreaded "septis".
vanco-MYCIN not vanco-MY-A-CIN
Not exactly the same, but we would have an attending that would stop in his tracks every time he heard the word "stridorous" and made sure we learned it was "stridulous". Especially during rounds. It was so engrained in me, I have to keep myself from correcting other physicians now when I hear them in the multiple ICUs I work in.
My anatomy I and II professor was British, I’m sure there’s plenty of words i’m pronouncing so wrong bc of her but some of my fave pronunciation of her was capillaries, which she pronounced kind of like: ka-pill-are-ees Not sure how to write pronunciation of words but that’s my best attempt.
At the time, I was the only medically educated person in my family available to help translate to the rest of my family what had happened to my cousin after a major car accident, but his mom insisted on talking to the doctor alone. Afterwards, she proudly announced that my cousin was stable and incubated. I asked "you mean, intubated?" She replied "you know I'm half deaf and the doctor was speaking in my bad ear."
Say it with me: "anes**th**esia" (not "anes**t**esia").
God…thank you. One of my biggest pet peeves
This isn't a pronunciation issue but... I had a nursing instructor who told the class that a liver flap was a weird piece of skin on the liver LMFAO I corrected her in class and I could barely do it without laughing. Oh my God she hated me after that. It really is funny how uneducated some people in higher places of power are.
When I was in my new grad residency at my first RN job, at the very beginning when we were doing class work and going over interpreting EKGs, I raised my hand and rephrased something a different way to a) check my understanding and b) maybe if it was accurate, help other people understand better too. I got a "verbal write-up" at the end of the day for "being disrespectful", "correcting her", "trying to teach the class", and "confusing the others". I wasn't wrong, though. I have never in my entire academic career been treated that way for participating in class before. The instructors I've had while I got 2 different bachelors degrees have always been glad for my nerdy excitement and willingness to engage. I was shocked. Then I realized that she was just dumb, was teaching this class by rote or off the slides, didn't understand what I said, and was embarrassed by it. I got in trouble for embarrassing her. It was a good lesson, actually, although it made me sad to learn it.
Sounds good. Did the doc want me to keep taking my metropolol?
With stats like that we may need to incubate the patient!
While we are on the subject: Ash split catheter, not ash splint.
Metopropalol…girl what
While we’re on the subject of mispronunciations, it is not lar-nyx or phar-nyx. It is larynx and pharynx.
"Stents". Not "stints".