Guess the mispronounced medical term

[EricJRN]

After a recent EMS run where I was momentarily stumped by a patient's condition, I thought it might be fun to see if it stumps anyone else.

The term: Sack-a-docious

Hint: Patient's chief complaint is, "My lungs be painin' me because of my sack-a-docious."

Anyone?

[Fonenurse]

WE get a lot of typos where I work, with inexperienced staff mis-spelling medical words - often we get puss in wounds, various mis-spellings of diarrhoea (that's the uk spelling - it's not misspelt - lol), sarcy dosus and rashes on peoples gentles - genitals. I just wish I could remember them all - maybe we should write a book about the mis-pronounciations and mis-spellings - especially if we could get a cartoonist to draw some of them - felines in surgical wounds, whatever next?

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

Oh, don't get me going on spelling errors and typos!

A few classics:

COPD exasperation

Armenia

Sincopy

Phenergran

and my personal pet peeve, made by docs as well as nurses and secretaries:

aggitation

(It's ONE g, folks!)

[Quickbeam, BSN, RN]

Prostate/Prostrate! I must hear that daily!

[flashpoint]

I once reviewed an EMS run sheet of a patient with a sinkable episode. I also read an EMS run sheet that said, "And then he took a crap, right there on the cot."

I love rookies!

:)

[Wise Woman RN]

"My bajabba be so..." the docs couldn't figure that one out at all...

(my lady parts is sore)...

"colonestomie" a test for polyps...

"metro moosil" the stuff you drink for fiber...

"no shoes" when you feel sick to your stomach...

"peebot" pivot transfer...

I could go on.... LOL

[ER/ONCRN]

That is such a pet peeve of mine: PHENERGRAN ugh...

[suzy253, RN]

I had another nurse give me report recently on a patient with bilateral pneumonia.....only the RN said double ammonia. OMG

[rn500]

I work in L&D in an inner city hospital, so you can imagine some of the stuff I hear....

My favorite was a woman who came in clutching her crotch yelling "Oh my pee-pie, my pee-pie!"

[Always Learning, RN]

mil called me, up set because her doctor called her an "idiot and said she had throbbing cystic pen-nas." she also wanted to know where and what her pen-nas was.

finally, after some questioning i figured out idiopathic thrombocytopenia.

i swear that woman is wonderful practice for figuring out supposed ailments and medication names! wish i could remember them all.

___________________

graduate this december!

woo-hoo!

[ChadleyNC]

Please refill my Comedy and my Privacy.

ah, scuse me?

Oh, you're Coumadin and your Prevacid...

I'll send the message back, and have it called in for you.. what pharmacy?

"Carry Drugs" Carry? Oh, Kerr? ok, no problem..

This took place some years ago when I worked in a GI office. I also truly enjoyed explaining what it was in Marinol that increased a patient's apetite to her husband. I live in NC and rural people think some things are just plainly evil. LOL

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

I hear you, Chadley. I'm from NC also & totally understand what you're saying...

[fleur-de-lis, BSN, RN]

I had a patient tell me his last hospitalization was for "sore hoses" - that one took me a while...

he meant cirrhosis!