Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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Car-dee-ya-zem.

It's car-di-zem. Or dil-ti-ya-zem.

Cardiazem isn't a real thing.

Can I get an amen?!

All from my mother:

Choir Practer = chiropractor

Paramecium Cheese = parmesan cheese

juraft = giraffe

Drown did = drowned

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Specializes in Med-Surg ICU.

I can't believe how many nurses can't pronounce metoprolol!

Metopolol, metropolol, metroprolol.

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I can't believe how many nurses can't pronounce metoprolol!

Metopolol, metropolol, metroprolol.

I always imagine it pronounce metopropol

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I was in charge one night and got a page for an incoming patient with "Shortness of Breast". Ha ha ha. I also had to correct a HUC who entered an order for "Due Battle May Citrate" instead of "One Bottle Mag-Citrate". Computer order entry has really ruined the game of trying to decipher MD handwriting.

Unless they're free-texting. I've gotten some interesting orders when they were free texting: "Flush feeding tube hourly with Pro-Stat." Ummmm -- that's usually just given once a day.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I can't believe how many nurses can't pronounce metoprolol!

Metopolol, metropolol, metroprolol.

You forgot "Men-tope-o-laal."

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

The one that drives me nuts ( and I hear it from health professionals) is " All Timers" instead of Alzheimers.

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Medical transcriptionist for 14 years, plus looking for my first RN job, so I hear a LOT of fun stuff. What irritates me - 'or-oh-fair-NIX' instead of 'or-oh-fair-INKS.' My grandpa, Lord love him, has also had a few doozies - his Atrovent is "Astrovent" and his HMO is an "HBO," among others.

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My dad, in the hospital and under the influence of narcotics from his open cholecystectomy (and he rarely takes anything stronger than Tylenol), called the urologist the "pissologist."

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
My dad, in the hospital and under the influence of narcotics from his open cholecystectomy (and he rarely takes anything stronger than Tylenol), called the urologist the "pissologist."

I am in pretty regular contact with urology lately...it's going to be darn near impossible not to hear "pissology department" and giggle when they answer the phone tomorrow.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

One of the second year residents pronounced hemoglobin as hee-MOG-luh-bun instead of HEE-muh-glo-bin. Anyone ever hear it pronounced that way? Is it legit?

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
One of the second year residents pronounced hemoglobin as hee-MOG-luh-bun instead of HEE-muh-glo-bin. Anyone ever hear it pronounced that way? Is it legit?

Never heard it…but I have learned on AN that almost every pronunciation is legit somewhere.

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Old timers disease in lieu of Alzheimer's.

Peanut butter balls in regards to a popular anti-convulsants.

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