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.

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

I'm thinking with this writing display, he is not mistaking you for Dumas.

(Hardy har har har)

luckily he had a great sense of humor huh? now the next time i talk to him i have to fess up my ignorance, lol. he'll LOVE that, lol.

[LuLu2008]

luckily he had a great sense of humor huh? now the next time i talk to him i have to fess up my ignorance, lol. he'll LOVE that, lol.

You have a wonderful sense of humor, and it's great to work with doctors who understand and can laugh, too!

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

i've been sitting here saying "lEEEEvaquin" over and over. it doesnt even sound right! i think the manufacturer must have made a serious typo. i'm quite sure they meant for us to say "lEHvaquin". just rolls of the tongue better.... :)

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

You have a wonderful sense of humor, and it's great to work with doctors who understand and can laugh, too!

aw thanks!

i cant stand to work with people, esp. docs, that have no sense of humor. i will do things just to drive them nuts then....just for the fun of it

(evidently me sitting here trying to learn the correct way to say lEEvaquin is driving my husband craxy, lol...he told me to hush, lol)

[LuLu2008]

If you think LEEvokwin is hard to say, just try

levofloxacin

It almost sounds obscene!

[Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN]

luckily he had a great sense of humor huh? now the next time i talk to him i have to fess up my ignorance, lol. he'll LOVE that, lol.

Ah, his medical transcriptionist probably hollers at the computer when he mispronouces other stuff. At least that's what I do. :)

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

If you think LEEvokwin is hard to say, just try

levofloxacin

It almost sounds obscene!

kinda turns me on....

say it again

[LuLu2008]

kinda turns me on....

say it again

So... you look coyly at the cute doctor and say huskily, "do you recommend levo FLOX a-cin?"

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

So... you look coyly at the cute doctor and say huskily, "do you recommend levo FLOX a-cin?"

(thats my coy look...how'd i do?)

[adoyo]

It does not pay to laugh at someone who does not pronounce a word correctly. Let us not have the 'holierthan thou' attitude as in this case the doctor might have wrongly pronounced or spelled the drug's name but definately there are loads of medical stuff that he knows more than the one laughing her head off on a single distorted word. We all have different ethnic background and this makes it quite difficult to pronounce some of the letters for example, I have always struggled to pronounce words with 'sh' because we do not have a single word with sh in our language ,so aword such as 'shame' to me would be something like'same' dependig on the context!! So please do not kill yourself with laughter when I struggle to come up with such words!! let us learn to accommodate each other instead of condemning over flimsy reasons. My spellings are usually good despite my pronounciations.

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

me thinks that thou should let us learn to laff at ourselves and others in a good natured way and that thou should let us learn to laff at posts on a message board that are not meant to be taken very seriously.

[Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN]

It does not pay to laugh at someone who does not pronounce a word correctly. Let us not have the 'holierthan thou' attitude as in this case the doctor might have wrongly pronounced or spelled the drug's name but definately there are loads of medical stuff that he knows more than the one laughing her head off on a single distorted word. We all have different ethnic background and this makes it quite difficult to pronounce some of the letters for example, I have always struggled to pronounce words with 'sh' because we do not have a single word with sh in our language ,so aword such as 'shame' to me would be something like'same' dependig on the context!! So please do not kill yourself with laughter when I struggle to come up with such words!! let us learn to accommodate each other instead of condemning over flimsy reasons. My spellings are usually good despite my pronounciations.

I don't ever consider an ESL's inability to pronounce a word a mispronunciation. ("V" is an example of a big problem for some ESLs.) I also know that words will be changed and/or left out, depending on the speaker's native language. (The words "the" and "he/she" come to mind.) I also don't care about the long E or short E in Levaquin, or the difference in syllable emphasis in metoprolol. Those aren't mispronunciations to me. The intent of the speaker is clear when he or she says those drugs either way.