Terms we will not admit to using

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You all have heard of them and of course we never actually use any of these terms but somehow they are there and everyone knows them.......

There the "unofficial" abbreviation list

like

FLK Funny Looking Kid

or

Craft syndrome - Can't Remember A Flippin' Thing

PFO - clean version - Potted (Drunk) and Fell Over

AHD - Acute Haloperidol Deficit

Or the pseudomedical jargon for describing patient peculiarities i.e.

Mononeuronis Asynapsis

Acute Pneumoencephalopathy (thanks TeeitupTom)

Acute Hyponicotaemia (busting for a cigarette)

Does anyone know anymore??

Okay can anyone add to this list

HIVI- Husband Is Village Idiot

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Specializes in Peds.

One of my coworkers called all of our MRCP (mentally-retarded cerebral palsy) patients "MERPS". I, sadly, have used that term a time or two....my bad *spanks my own hand with a ruler*

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Specializes in ED.

"Code Brown" ... you can imagine!

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Specializes in peds palliative care and hospice.

what is a merp?

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Specializes in Paramedic 15 years, RN now.

TITRATE TO SILENCE!!!!!!

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Specializes in Paramedic 15 years, RN now.

If I can hear you screaming "I cant breath"....you can breath!!!

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Specializes in psych,telephonic,LTACH.
TPTP To posh to push (Generally associated with FMPS)

CTF Cletus the fetus (those 23 weekers parents expect us to save)

I have a lot that would probably get me banned from the bb!

As a nurse and the parent of a '29weeker' who received world class care, i find your cletus the fetus extremely callous and offensive. where's your empathy? that's no joking matter, viable fetus or not.

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
Microdeckia (as in not playing with a full deck)

'11 and a half old pence' i.e. not quite the full shilling

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Specializes in ED.

FLK (Funny Looking Kid) i.e. nothing medically wrong with the kid, but looks like there should be a diagnosis to expain it!

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FLK (Funny Looking Kid) i.e. nothing medically wrong with the kid, but looks like there should be a diagnosis to expain it!

some times preceded by UM

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FLK was used to also describe strange looking faces. We often believed there was some medical diagnosis to explain this and often there was such a genetic explanation. But sometimes the parents showed up, and we no longer thought the child was FLK.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

SC (Stank Crotch):yeah:

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