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FTD fixin to die

"Incarcaphobia" for the patient who'd rather wait in the ED (by ambulance, of course) instead of the cozy holding cell where she was being held FOR MURDER.

Positive chart sign: the chart's so big you strain something carrying it; usually means you can count on hypochondria, malingering, or some other similar problem.

I live in Texas. I too understand the Hysterical Hispanic Female/Status Hispanicus one, too. A cop I knew in a small town called it a Hispanic Heart Attack.

I like to use the term PDSD...Pre-Detention Stress Disorder!

Oh, Mr. Police Officer, my chest hurts, can you take me to the emergency room, before we go through the whole booking thing...please...it really hurts...

we use drt- dead right there

or rfd really-f**** dead

or (most popular in our er)- FN f***** nuts:D (respectfully, of course.)

OK, I did live in New Mexico for 7 years, but I am from Tennessee and have no idea what the Hysterical Hispanic stuff is all about. Can someone please explain that to me? In return, I offer the following information on "done fell out".

This is a tried, true, and no-questions-asked accepted diagnosis in the South. It is an equal-opportunity diagnosis, with no regard to age, race, or religion, but my personal experience has provided me primarily with rural whites suddenly overcome with the Spirit at all-day revivals, most of which take place in hell-hot temperatures with 98-99% humidity thrown in to weed out the wusses. I've never seen one younger than mid-30-ish, but anyone older than that is fair game.

I LOVE the "intubating junior"! What a classic!

"Chrome induced ischemia "- when someone gets handcuffed/arrested and they start having chest pain

We give suspiciously unconscious patients "vit A" (ammonia) - one in each nostril works MIRACLES!!

Heard the MD tonight order Dopamine as "no hopeamine"

(I guess he didnt want to "leave em dead" with levophed)

DOA = dead on arrival

I like the "no hope-amine"; I can't tell you how many times I've felt the same way.

Leave-'em-dead levophed?

Where can I get a "no pressors" tattoo for my forehead?

JPS--Just plain stupid (this was coined after a 34 y M tried to ski off of his roof, and no traces of any drugs or alcohol was found in his system)

chocolate hostage = constipation ( stole it from another post) but love it