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?!

What I don't like are mispronunciations that cause medical errors. What's in a drug name?

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That's a mouthful.

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Anna S, RN said:
It's Phen-er-gan, not phen-a-grin.

It's a Holter monitor, not a halter.

Spelling- it's HIPAA, not HIPPA.

When I see it as "HIPPA", I picture this:

hippo.jpg

YESSS PhenerGRIN is my biggest pet peeve LOL I'm like do you see an "R" in GAN LOL Drives me nuts LOL

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
lilhemc said:
I cannot, for the life of me, pronounce "sphygmomanometer"  . I am glad that now they use the electronic one called "blood pressure machine".

I love this word!! I love saying it!

As well as glomerulonephritis

And a few other tongue twisters!!

They're fun!

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Makes my back teeth hurt when nurses chart "easily aroused"...oh, really?

How about "easily roused" instead?

Arouse vs. rouse - Grammarist

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

Instead of saying "he drowned" saying "he drownded."

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Specializes in Hospice Nursing.
I love this word!! I love saying it!

As well as glomerulonephritis

And a few other tongue twisters!!

They're fun!!!

My favorite word is schistosomiasis!!

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Specializes in critical care.

We have a doctor who is Asian, first generation in America, and when I encounter a note that she fills with grammatical errors, I automatically read it in her voice in my mind.

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Specializes in critical care.
My favorite word is schistosomiasis!!

What is this?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
ixchel said:
What is this?

Snail fever: CDC - Schistosomiasis

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Rose_Queen said:
Snail fever: CDC - Schistosomiasis

Wow! I can't believe it's so common and I hadn't heard of it before. Unless maybe I'm just living under a rock? I've been known to do that from time to time. 

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ixchel said:
Wow! I can't believe it's so common and I hadn't heard of it before. Unless maybe I'm just living under a rock? I've been known to do that from time to time.

Better have yourself checked.....don't snails squeeze under rocks sometimes?

Well, speaking of mush-mouth, when I came home I was telling my hubs about the place I did PD 7a-7p today; they put out 9 heaps of cracked corn for the wild turkeys and deer, songbirds and squirrels.

Most of the day there was a squirrel sitting amidst their very own pile of cracked corn, eating-eating-eating-eating......for HOURS. And I was saying how I did not know how they had room for one more bite of cracked corn in their stomachs......."you'd think their butts would be gusting!" 

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