Learn To Say It Correctly!!

[SheriLynnRN]

Doesn't it just drive you insane when someone tells you that Mr. Smith's O2 STAT is 96%?

It's O2 SAT people! Sat, short for saturation. I even hear respiratory therapists saying this. I am sooooo tempted to say something next time, but I know it's just petty, so I needed to vent here. Thank you.

[MadisonsMomRN, BSN, RN]

Here is another one...

prostrate (should be prostate!) :)

Sorry if I repeated this... I didn't read all the posts! Its just the first thing that came to my mind.

[jallen5]

I'm a transcriptionist, too. If I don't type things exactly right, I can lose my job. A dictation is a legal document that has to be perfectly correct so it can withstand in a court of law. When dictators mispronounce words and use incorrect grammar, it is very difficult especially when the dictation is in a specialty area, and you have to determine if he meant "x" thingie or the other "x" thingie. After a full day of it every day for weeks and then months getting hammered on our reports if we misplace a comma, it starts to crawl all over you that someone who can get paid more in a day than I will get in a week will say "oldtimers" or "phenergrin" or something like that. Ai yi yi. I have had doctors change the sex of the patient a dozen times, change the broken arm to a broken leg, change the kidney to from the right to the left, change the age of the patient, make him allergic to something and then not allergic to anything, and so on and so forth. When someone is in a position of authority on a subject and is supposed to have our faith in their ability, it is just not professional to pronounce words incorrectly such that even a lay person knows better.

[lil' girl, LPN]

Ah ha! My pet peeve too! I hear ya!

[Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN]

I'm a transcriptionist, too. If I don't type things exactly right, I can lose my job. A dictation is a legal document that has to be perfectly correct so it can withstand in a court of law. When dictators mispronounce words and use incorrect grammar, it is very difficult especially when the dictation is in a specialty area, and you have to determine if he meant "x" thingie or the other "x" thingie. After a full day of it every day for weeks and then months getting hammered on our reports if we misplace a comma, it starts to crawl all over you that someone who can get paid more in a day than I will get in a week will say "oldtimers" or "phenergrin" or something like that. Ai yi yi. I have had doctors change the sex of the patient a dozen times, change the broken arm to a broken leg, change the kidney to from the right to the left, change the age of the patient, make him allergic to something and then not allergic to anything, and so on and so forth. When someone is in a position of authority on a subject and is supposed to have our faith in their ability, it is just not professional to pronounce words incorrectly such that even a lay person knows better.

.....let alone trust their spelling of medical words.... :)

(Just heard "carotid 'enderectomy.'")

[Valerie Salva, BSN, RN]

HIPPA instead of HIPAA (see that one on AN every day!)

Halter moniter instead of Holter! It's not a halter!!

[Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN]

HIPPA instead of HIPAA (see that one on AN every day!)

Can I hear an amen on that one?!? That drives me bonkers!!!

[Valerie Salva, BSN, RN]

I confess--it cracks me up every time I hear someone say "I'm really nauseous" when they really mean to say they are nauseated. It's the equivalent of saying, "I'm really sickening." (Big smile!)

Guilty!:sofahider

[rngolfer53]

I think everyone has little stuff like that that urks them.

I had a client the other day that had "cadillac" surgery on his right eye.

Also had one that had "suggestive" heart failure.

It takes all types. Just drives you nuts though. :chuckle

My aunt, long since passed on, used to refer to the abdomen as the "abominable cabinet." :nuke:

Lord only knows how she would have addressed the Abominable Snowman had she encountered him.

[Valerie Salva, BSN, RN]

I worked in a hospice unit where we were to chart that our pts were there for symptom management or "sx mgmt."

I worked with a nurse who charted "system mange" day after day, year after year.

We treated out pts' symptoms, not their systems, and none of them had mange!

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Umm.....no, it is not!

Now, bell peppers can be red, orange, green or yellow. I honestly don't know the correct term for them; I've always called them bell peppers. And they're a vegetable.

A mango is a mango and it's a fruit.

Bell Peppers:

Mangoes:

[jallen5]

"abominable cabinet!" I am going to laugh about that one for years to come and quote it frequently--no offense to your grandma--it is just so cute!

[prmenrs, RN]

When I was 5, my dad got orders, so we moved from CA to MD. That made me late for the start of school (1st grade). Already a bit disoriented, when the teacher called the roll, I said "here" @ my name. But I realized that the other kids were saying something different. Over the next few weeks, I kept trying to figure out what the word was, but for some reason I could not get it.

One day, I screwed up my courage. When she called my name, I took a deep breath and said, "PRESIDENT!!" And everybody laughed @ me. :chair: The correct word, which I eventually learned, was "present".

It took me a while to get over the trauma! (The trials of being a 1st grader!)