Miss pronounciations of medications and medical terms!Way to Funny!!!!!!!!

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today i went in to work to my office seeing as how im the sup. to grab some paperwork i forgot the other day, and anyways we have this new nurse whojust moved herefrom alabama, anyways i overheard her talking to one of the docs, they had this patient who had migraines who is an ff, anyway she was like shouldnt we give thisguy some cafe'goat suppositories, yes she pronounced the cafe'-as in resteraunt, goat as in animal, i know she meant cafergot, but this was the funniest thing ive ever heard, i had a mouth full of pop, which went flying across my desk.lol, what are some of the funniest things youve heard-lol-:lol2::chuckle:hpygrp::nurse:

Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

Good luck! Hope you're feeling much better by this time tomorrow! :flowersfo

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Specializes in ER/PDN.

okay, so I guess everyone driving me crazy with the word "Phenergran" is mild compared to everyone else here. It drives me crazy when even the paramedics can't pronounce Phenergan!

rgroyner1rnbsn, I hope your surgery goes well!

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Hey all I just got home everything went well, Im feeling much better, and they got the stone. Thanks all!

Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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hey all i just got home everything went well, im feeling much better, and they got the stone. thanks all!

wonderful!!:yeah:

now rest and hydrate...:smiletea2:

Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

glad you are feeling better!

i had a cute one a patient wrote on his health history a while back, under previous surgeries, he wrote "exploding pendicks removed 1990"

i finally figured out if meant ruptured appendix.. but it took me a minute. :)

Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

Thanks all! I am feeling way better!

Specializes in ED staff.

I frequently triage patients who have vomickin and direaer which is made worse by their bleebin heemeroids. "they usually gimme that finnegan when I comence to vomickin."

"scuse me ma'am, he dunn throwed up allovah the place."

I done got this here place under my arm, I gues itsa risin....... also known as an abscess. I done taped fatback to it an eveythin to try to make it come to a head, do you know of anything that can be done to make it go away?

(you mean besides scrubbing it with betadine, numbing it up, draining it, culturing it and putting a drain in it?)

Lil ole lady talking to me when my daughter was a baby and had a bad cough... "I know how to cure that younguns misery." she says nodding. "How?" I ask. "Take ya a straw and dip it down in some turpentine and then dip it in her bottle." Yeah I'm thinking she won't cough aymore cause it'll probably kill her~!!!

Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.
I frequently triage patients who have vomickin and direaer which is made worse by their bleebin heemeroids. "they usually gimme that finnegan when I comence to vomickin."

"scuse me ma'am, he dunn throwed up allovah the place."

I done got this here place under my arm, I gues itsa risin....... also known as an abscess. I done taped fatback to it an eveythin to try to make it come to a head, do you know of anything that can be done to make it go away?

(you mean besides scrubbing it with betadine, numbing it up, draining it, culturing it and putting a drain in it?)

Lil ole lady talking to me when my daughter was a baby and had a bad cough... "I know how to cure that younguns misery." she says nodding. "How?" I ask. "Take ya a straw and dip it down in some turpentine and then dip it in her bottle." Yeah I'm thinking she won't cough aymore cause it'll probably kill her~!!!

Yep it'd probabley do just that!!:coollook::chuckle:banghead::nurse:

Patients say the funniest things, but nurses are equally guilty.

I crack up every time a nurse tells me, "They have an 18g IV in their left anti-cubicle."

When my first child was born, the nurse was sitting in the room talking to us about the different tests they had to do to the baby and everything. Well, my SO wasn't really paying attention, but something had caught his interest. Next thing I know he jumps in the conversation and says, "Wait a minute! Who is Billy Reubin and what is he doing to my son's blood?" The nurse and I both couldn't help but to laugh at that one! :lol2:

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