A little pet peeve

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OK, I just gotta say this, but I know it's really petty:

WEITLANER!!!!!!!! It's called a WEITLANER!!!!!

W-E-I-T-L-A-N-E-R!!!!!!!

So why do even experienced nurses persist in adding a "D" to it and calling it a "weitlanDer?"

That has bothered me for over 25 years.

OK, now I feel better.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Originally posted by nurseshell

Also "prostrate" gland - prostate

I know, I think the only person that should be forgiven for calling his prostate his "prostrate" is Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) on NYPD Blue. When he says it, it's sorta endearing--he's just bein' Andy.

I think people are saying "Old Timer's Disease" instead of "Alzheimer's" deliberately, as sort of a play on words--or are themselves elderly folks and that's how they really hear the words and understand the nature of the disease--as something that happens to their fellow "old-timers."

Originally posted by shodobe

You'll find in most hospital ORs, instruments are named after certain surgeons who use them exclusively. We have a number named after long retired or dead surgeons. I still to this day, after 25 years, still call them by the only name I ever used. New nurses look at me with a strange eye, but I tell them the story behind them and they understand. I have gone in my catalogs and learned what they are really called and changed the names on the count sheets in the sets. Mike

You are so right, Shodobe.

People who are not from Northern California have probably never heard Debakey pick-ups referred to as "Magics."

The reason they are called "Magics" in Northern California, or so legend goes, is that Dr. Shumway (prima donna cardiac guy extraordinaire) from Stanford could not stand Dr. Michael DeBakey, so he would not allow the term "Debakey" to be used at Stanford.

So many Stanford trained docs are around that "Magics" is just kinda the generic term now.

All the guys that trained under Shumway are a buncha crybaby, whiny, prima donnas. They have this way of saying "Come ONNNNNNNNNN" if they think you don't hand an instrument fast enough, andf they all call themselves "Shumway's Boys--" which might be cute if they were 12 years old, but sounds really stupid considering that these guys are in their late 30s 40s and 50s----

Is it that way in your experience, Shodobe?

Also, in Northern CA, they call tonsil clamps "Schnitz." Don't know why; never did know why, but have been hearing it since OR school in Oakland in '75.

In Oregon, they call Debakeys "atraugrips" or "atraus."

Shodobe, here's another one you can probably relate to--have you ever worked with people who call "Duvals" (sp?) "Penningtons?"

For readers who don't do OR---Duvals are lung clamps; Penningtons are hemorrhoid clamps.

Originally posted by ShandyLynnRN

or we could be one of those nurses that read all the posts (or most) in the "todays active threads". I personally am an OB nurse, and only visit the OR during sectiions, and in my hospital we dont scrub. But thanks for the definition!

ShandyLynn, I bet you can relate to this one--have you ever worked in L&D or post-partum with people (usually CNAs; usually the know-it-all CNAs that resent being corrected because they have been aides since before you were a nurse, or even before you were BORN, and think they know more nursing than you do; you know the kind I mean, but I digress--)

that pronounce LOCHIA as if it was spelled LOSHA? Rhymes with OSHA?

LOL, honestly never heard anyone call it "losha", but we did get a good laugh one night when one of our techs called it a "fungus" check instead of a fundus check. She is definitely NOT a know it all though, so she laughed with the rest of us!!!

Weitlaner, weitlaner, weitlaner.... Do I work with you cause I have someone at work who has the exact same pet peeve=) I learned how to spell it and say it properly

I work in the OR in West Virginia and I almost fell off my chair when I read about the WV forceps------sooooo funny!!

One of my pet peeve words is--"bronical" pneumonia. My Mom even says it!! Also people who are having a colonoscopy who say they are having a colostomy.

I think every OR has knicknames for different instruments. Look how many names for sheevers, pushers, cd, cherry dissector, kittners, etc..........

How about incorrect verb usage in general.........ie They does not .........fill in the blank.

Of course no offense is intended.:p

Specializes in NICU.

exscape instead of escape bugs me.

And irregardless is not a word.

In the american reference book I have, Weitlander is spelled as is...not "Weitlaner"...So who is correct? Please advise. Thanks!

Specializes in ED staff.

Oh man, I hate that orientated thing, makes me NUTS!

Brown chitis, diaree, choirpractor, orientated, etc.

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