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I can't stand the word "expire" when someone dies. Humans are not loaves of bread....we don't expire! Ticks me off when people say it or when I read it. I will NEVER say that about somebody.
I agree, my husband was watching this show, something Choppers, Sr. vs. Jr. Anyway, a man died and the state trooper tells the TV that the man fell and unfortunately expired. or something along those lines, but he used the word expired. I was like WHAT!!!! He isn't a carton of milk.
The hospital where I did clinicals puts it as the patient was discharged :|
~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN
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I was just attempting to study and came across a word that makes me cringe. I know it's probably weird. Some words just evoke something in me, not all medical, I can't stand the words curd or moist.
Anyway, I was curious what some of yours were, or if it is only me that cringes at certain ones.
Since starting nursing school, Fistula is one I can't stand. Makes me want to gag just seeing it!