Medical words that make you cringe.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN]

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!

[TiddlDwink]

Wait till you smell a stage 4 pressure sore...something you never forget!!!

yeppers! I usually do OK with words (except smegma and purulent)... it's odors that make me gag.

Infected, draining pressure ulcers, a GI bleed, and pseudomonas... all odors I have to drag out the peppermint oil for.

[NurseYee, BSN, RN]

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.

Agreed. It comes off as inhumane.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

yeppers! I usually do OK with words (except smegma and purulent)... it's odors that make me gag.

Infected, draining pressure ulcers, a GI bleed, and pseudomonas... all odors I have to drag out the peppermint oil for.

Super sensitive to smells here. (I know, why did I pick nursing right?) I have had people tell me I have a super human sense of smell. lol, I also will instantly start gagging at times. The girls bathroom in school is terrible. THANK GOODNESS FOR PEPPERMINT OIL!!!! Doesn't completely work but for sure takes the edge off.

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

This is a funny thread ...

I seem to have issues with skin words: I don't like the word "flesh" (couple that with the adjective moist and it sounds X-rated, LMAO!) ... I also hate it when human tissue is referred to as "meat."

[enchantmentdis, BSN, RN]

Pseudo-cyst. Is is a fricking cyst or not? Hydrocele. pleurodesis. some of the ugliest words. I also refuse to use the words extremities or bilateral in my documentation. I say both legs, both arms, rt arm, lft leg--why would i want to use a longer word than a shorter word?

[newmissRN]

What the heck do you work in? Hippy substance abuse rehab?

No I work in oncology. We see the patients so often during treatment that we get to know them. When they come back for hospice care and finally do die its seems more respectful to say it that way.

[macalania54]

"Polyp" blehh

[bubblejet50]

esophagogastroduodenoscopy---it's a long word that makes me cringe because a questions showed up on a test once...."What does EGD stand for (spelling counts)?" ever since then that word makes me cringe. i didn't know it on the test but now i know what EGD stands for! lol

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

"grntea, it's your turn to float." used to make me cringe every time.

now, it's, "my client can't pay your fee," (after i've already put 20 hours into the case). (the atty hires me, the atty pays me. he can get it out of the client, not my problem.)

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

When the new mom decided to give her daughter a "most beautiful name" ...

Melena Therese

!!!!!!

[FORTHELOVEOF!!!!]

The doctor laughed, and said, "DMF stands for dumb....."

I love it! While I do love caring for people and try my hardest to treat them like I would my own family members.

[FORTHELOVEOF!!!!]

Scrotum, hemorrhoid, when anything is described using a food like cheesy, or my favorite when a patient saw a huge clot of blood by the bed and said, ewww it looks like hamburger:barf02::barf01:

Oh and I know it's words we are talking about but I hate when people use what I thought were good smells (like cinnamon or peppermint) to cover the odor of C-Diff, there is NO COVERING THAT SMELL, so it ruins cinnamon and peppermint for me.