Learn To Say It Correctly!!

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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.

Specializes in Med Surg.

The English are known for this kind of truncation. To wit, Worcestershire becomes Wistasheer and Cholmondoley becomes Chumley.

Don't forget "lefttenant" for lieutenant

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i hate it when nurses say 'phener-GRAN', it makes me embarassed for them.

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Specializes in Medical.
Don't forget "lefttenant" for lieutenant
Here and in NZ, too - a legacy of our British heritage.
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Dang, every time I hear angina I am going to think lady parts now!!!! The patient had frequent lady parts attacks- oops! I meant angina attacks. Couldn't you have said Carolina? How do I clear that thought from my head?

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Specializes in Home health care, CNA (nursing home).

It annoys me when people say, "I have an ideal" rather than, "I have an idea"~

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It annoys me when people say, "I have an ideal" rather than, "I have an idea"~

how about i-deer?

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Specializes in Home health care, CNA (nursing home).
how about i-deer?

Yes, that is just as annoying! "I have an i-deer, go and warsh yer hands!" LOL!:twocents:

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Specializes in Med Surg.
Yes, that is just as annoying! "I have an i-deer, go and warsh yer hands!" LOL!:twocents:

Sounds like New England to me. If you want to hear some wild pronountiations try Maine. Ihayah.

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Specializes in Home health care, CNA (nursing home).
Sounds like New England to me. If you want to hear some wild pronountiations try Maine. Ihayah.

I actually went to Maine and a few other places, and they thought I had an accent (I'm from Michigan)! I had a difficult time understanding many people there!

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I had a nursing instructor who went through the entire semester pronouncing Guillain-Barre Syndrome as Jillian Bar Syndrome. You had better believe the staff laughed hysterically when I mispronounced that one in clinicals.

Luckily, we really liked this instructor and gently let her know. She had a good laugh too! Who the heck is Jillian Bar???

On a side note I met a guy named Theodore Hose a few years back and can't stop laughing about it. We called him Ted against his wishes...couldn't resist.

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I'm with most of you- it doesn't really bother me when people who don't work in the medical field (family members or something) make mistakes with these words, but it really irks me (and kind of scares me sometimes!) when my co-workers butcher these words!

How about "anti-psycho" drugs (I'm still not sure whether the nurse was just fooling around or mistaken, but I've heard her say it several times)? "Anti-depressives"? O2 STATS really does bug me...

It's kind of cute, though- I had a little lady tell me the other night, "be careful taking care of my new roommate, she's psycho-phrenic!"

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And the generally accepted rule is to capitalize'God', but to be p.c.,people are writing g-d,for cripes sake! Anyone know where the word 'cripes' came from?

cripes is a disguised word for Christ which is short for Jesus Christ (basically disguising an exclamation of that name to announce dismay or shock). For further interpretation it's basically calling that deities name in vain.

Same with heck=hell,

gosh is actually a double nasty for deity and fecal combined.

, golly=god,

geez=Jesus

darn, dang, dern=damn, etc.

shoot, sheitz, sheister, shucks = fecal material,

any form of frig, frick, frang, = fornicate

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