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, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

HEY! I resemble those Alabama remarks! LOL. Seriously, those home remedies are as alive and well as they ever were, and they did not kill anyone in my family. Although I did get accused of "being too big for my britches" when I snatched the kerosene can away from my grandfather as he was about to pour it on his six-year-old grandson's cut. Of course, it might have been the fact that I did accompany the snatching with the phrase, "Are you brain damaged or something?!?!?!" I love my grandfather, but that scared the devil out of me.

And don't be making fun of the accent, I twang just as much as the next person, I am about to graduate with a Master's, and I think it helps me relate to all those LOLs and LOMs with the "vomikin" and risins"(although that does set my teeth on edge). We can't help the way we talk.

OTOH, my hubby wanted to know why they could not liposuction out my cellulitis the last time I got stung by a bee.:D

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The nurse manager in our E.D. is very strict and a real stickler for details, (to be honest she's a great nurse and sometimes I wish she was my boss) Anyway when I saw the sign she posted for this months skills development; "how to properly evaluate entitle CO2" I just cracked up. I went to the meeting and was asked to leave when I asked her if we are all entitled to end tidal CO2?!?! She is a good sport and laughed about it afterward.

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Specializes in ED.

How many of you folks have heard of the all too common techness shot?

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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~!!!

Turpentine was once used as a cough remedy. The stuff you buy in a hardware store has toxic additives, but at cough syrup doses, the old stuff was relatively safe. Terpin hydrate, which is no longer available in the U.S., is a slight modification of the turpentine molecule.

When I was a retail pharmacist, I got lots of requests for "Zorcor, atenol, Norvasec, and Isorbride." :chuckle They would apologize for mispronouncing their drugs, but we replied that we knew what they meant. Some of them said, "If you can read the doctor's handwriting, you can understand us!" :D

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Every time I say I take Allegra for my allergies some one makes a joke about Viagra("Did you say you take Viagra for you allergies", ha ha so funny I forgot to laugh). It has happened about 1000 times and is getting a little old. When someone ask me what I take for my allergies I don't want to answer.

Tell them you take fexofenadine. You wouldn't be lying, and it is available generically.

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I love Paula Dean but I watched her for 6 months before I knew that strange word she was saying was OIL.

One of our graduate students was from Thailand, and the Thai language does not have the "L" sound and she really mangled that word even though she was otherwise fluent in English.

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Specializes in Plastic Surgery, ER.

I saw a CC documented as a 'sinkable' episode just last week!

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these are all good!! Here's a few that I hear.

"I fell out" = fainted

"I caught a seizure"

"technical shot"

"vomicking"

"my heart is beeping fast"

"MO-feen"

and once, one of our techs put on the the tracking board "belly ribbon" for a CC, that was supposed to be biliruben.

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What about nurses who can't pronounce medications?? Loritab?? Loratab?? Phenergrin?? Or how 'bout Prostrate?? Old timers?? I cringe everytime I hear a coworker mangle medical words!

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