Funny fake names for meds

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I just brought this up in another post too. One of our cardiac thor. surgeons gave me a paper with a med name on it. He asked me to look it up because he couldn't find it anywhere. My first thought was, oh my gosh , is his Blackberry broken or is he worried that he may get a blister on his finger. So I took the gosh darn paper and it sain "Mycoxaflopin", at first glance it looked like a real med. But, when I said it in my head I had to laugh. I guess, even "those kind of Dr's" can have a little humor deep down inside them somewhere.:jester: Of course there's always the old standard pt's with funny names for meds like , Dilauda (I was informed by a pt that it is the liqued form of Dilaudid), or Finergin.

Specializes in Staff nurse.

Hm-m-m, "mycoxaflopin", would that be the sexual harassment drug?

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Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.
We call Ativan 'Vitamin A' and we also have one called the 'silver bullet' that we give to psych pts. who are totally out of control...it is 2 shots...one shot is 50 mg of Benadryl...the other shot is the Ativan/Haldol combo...usually 2 mg Ativan and 5 mg Haldol.

is that also known as a 'whammy shot' or am I thinking of something else

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

If I was the doc in the first post, I'd be very wary of harrassment complaints. Speaking of one's ''cox'' at work is rarely smiled upon in HR circles. Lots of the other meds names are amusing, though. There's been several threads over the years of how patients sometimes mishear and/or mispronounce things.

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Specializes in critical access, including ER.

We also call Ativan "vitamin A" and also "captain Ativan".....a dulcolax suppository is called "the silver bullet" and xanax is "madam x"!!! We have a poster up for a "new anti-anxiety" med called "Dammitol"!! Hope it gets FDA approval really soon!!:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

My hubby (paramedic) once calmed a psych pt in the back of the ambulance after establishing an IV, and when the pt asked what drug he was giving him answered 'norm-os-aline'...which is a fancy way of saying normal saline! LOL, the pt calmed right down an acted better! LOL!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

A doc in the community health ctr where I used to work used to make up songs about the meds he was prescribing

"Deltasone, what's that flower you have on...." (a la Tanya Tucker)

"Shadrach, Meschach and Mebendazole..." (he was Jewish, which made it funnier...)

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We have a prof here that says Metro-knee-dazzle instead of metronidazole.

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Thanks for the laughs, some days we really need a good one. Some people need to lighten up a little. Nothing wrong with a little humor if it's done in private and in good taste. The Dr that said it is a cardiac thoracic surgeon, arn't they always a little creepy ?

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Specializes in Psychiatric.
We also call Ativan "vitamin A" and also "captain Ativan".....a dulcolax suppository is called "the silver bullet" and xanax is "madam x"!!! We have a poster up for a "new anti-anxiety" med called "Dammitol"!! Hope it gets FDA approval really soon!!:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

I'd be all for putting some Dammitol in the air vents around here...sounds like good stuff!! LOL

:smiley_ab

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
Some people need to lighten up a little. Nothing wrong with a little humor if it's done in private and in good taste.

Gee, how interesting. That's been the response of everyone I can think of that's been brought down by sexual harrassment complaints!

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Thanks to everyone who is using this thread to laugh a little. Heaven . knows our jobs are difficult . Most other professions have know idea what kind of things we deal with. (death, dying, short staffing, life and death issues ). We are professional , caring and deticated. The same goes for many of the other professionals we work with. So any way, thanks for the laughs.....most of us really need it. Some could use a little more.:rotfl:

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I work really hard to provide med education with my psych patients, and some try really hard to sound like they've learned something, many times much to my embarrassment. These are some things I've heard:

Haldol=hound dog Wellbutrin=welluterine Depakote=Defecate

Restoril=restawhile Lexapro=lexicon Seroquel=Sir Rockwell

Atarax=anthrax

One pts mother wrote me a note saying her son needed a refill on his "klopine"

Remeron=ramrod

The best one is a pt prescribed generic Xanax, which she calls "altroplasma" (alprazolam).

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