Funny Names for Nurses

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An Accident and Emergency Department in Birmingham boasts a Nurse Payne

Nurse Hacker scrubs regularly in a London Operating Department

Sister De'Ath walks the corridors of a hospice in Victoria

Does Annie Beaver still work in Obstetrics in New York?

Mrs. Ake, a retired RN, was a specialist nurse in rheumatology

Kathy Foley was the head of the Catheter Insertion Team (back when they had those in the old days).

Dr Hui (pronounced "Wee") was a urologist whose wife, a nurse, worked as his office manager. Her name was Pi (pronounced "Pee"). Nurse Cox worked for a different team.

Chris Feely always favoured complementary therapies - especially therapeutic massage, while Nurse Fang was more at home with Cosmetic Surgery.

Ed worked with a nun who's last name was Fuchs. He did not know how to pronounce her name - so he asked. And he wanted to die.

Mary Slaughter could never get a post on the Surgical Unit, and Nurse Cutts was never the 'First Pick' Midwife.

Sharon Ward - when she gets promoted - will be Sr. Ward.

Not forgetting Melina, who works on a general medical ward and Nurse Nurse - she goes where she's sent!

laugh said:
An Accident and Emergency Department in Birmingham boasts a Nurse Payne

Nurse Hacker scrubs regularly in a London Operating Department

Sister De'Ath walks the corridors of a hospice in Victoria

Does Annie Beaver still work in Obstetrics in New York?

Mrs. Ake, a retired RN, was a specialist nurse in rheumatology

Kathy Foley was the head of the Catheter Insertion Team (back when they had those in the old days).

Dr Hui (pronounced "Wee") was a urologist whose wife, a nurse, worked as his office manager. Her name was Pi (pronounced "Pee"). Nurse Cox worked for a different team.

Chris Feely always favoured complementary therapies - especially therapeutic massage, while Nurse Fang was more at home with Cosmetic Surgery.

Ed worked with a nun who's last name was Fuchs. He did not know how to pronounce her name - so he asked. And he wanted to die.

Mary Slaughter could never get a post on the Surgical Unit, and Nurse Cutts was never the 'First Pick' Midwife.

Sharon Ward - when she gets promoted - will be Sr. Ward.

Not forgetting Melina, who works on a general medical ward and Nurse Nurse - she goes where she's sent!

:chuckle :rotfl: Birmingham, AL Dr. Fix/Plastics and Specialized Ortho and Dr. Job/Physician Recruiting. :chuckle :rotfl:

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This is not a nurses name but true story In Los angelus Califorina the head's of the Dept of water and power was MR Powers and MR waters story was in an airplane magizine I read.

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happthearts said:
This is not a nurses name but true story In Los angelus Califorina the head's of the Dept of water and power was MR Powers and MR waters story was in an airplane magizine I read.

Where I grew up there was a dentist by the name of Dr. Toothacker (don't remember how it was spelled.)

One of my dentists when I was a kid co-owned a candy company.. :idea:

When I was growing up, there was a physician, Frank Slaughter, who wrote medical novels--great stuff, he was always talking about what was current practice at the time (like, when ICUs came in), etc. Great medical history. I think his first novel started out with someone getting a coffee enema, I think for a suicide attempt.

My PCP is Dr. Man; one day I looked at the name of the doctors in that clinic: Ho, Lee, etc. I think the longest name was Greene. I did have Dr. Lee for my PCP at one time and also had an Ophthalmologist Dr. Ly (pronounced the same.)

NurseFirst

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Specializes in hospice, pediatrics.

Not really a doctor name, but I went to elementary school with a girl named Billy Jo Dick and her nickname was B.J. At the time I didn't understand that B.J. Dick was something funny.

Angie

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I know of a urologist, Dr. Ick and a dermatologist, Dr. Rash!

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Specializes in NICU.
fiestynurse said:
At the University of Wisconsin Hospital there was a Dr. Doctor. When they overhead paged him they had to remember to add his first name, because if they paged just Dr. Doctor, every doctor in the hospital would respond.

There is a Dr. Doctor where I work in Toronto, Canada as well.

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We have a Dr. Gross who is a Gen. Surg... and I was also delivered by an OB named Dr. Gross... Dr. Payne is a local ortho

My name is pronounced All-Knee and I tore my ACL this summer... the funny part was that I was dating a guy at the time who's last name was Payne... my sister (and my physical therapist) all thought if funny that I could have been Alnee (all-knee) Payne after having had ACL surgery...

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Many years ago, in my first job out of school, I worked at a hospital that prided itself on being v. tasteful and low-key about unpleasant emergencies taking place in the house, and the polite euphemism for code blues over the overhead paging system was, "Paging Dr. Heart ... Paging Dr. Heart to" (ICU, Ortho, wherever the code was). They had done this for many years and it had worked just fine. Then a Dr. Hart joined the medical staff ... :chuckle I was always amused to hear the hospital operators paging overhead, "Paging Dr. William (or whatever his first name was) Hart, umm, errr, that's Dr. WILLIAM Hart to Ortho" (or wherever) ... That was the only case in which they used a doc's first name in a page. Of course, they couldn't just change the code page to "Code Blue" like everyone else -- it would have been too unpleasant to admit to patients and visitors that there was a bad thing happening somewhere in the hospital ... :)

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I know a female physician named Dr. Pusey......never heard her paged over any sort of PA system though, LOL.

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Specializes in CCRN, CNRN, Flight Nurse.

My husband used to see Dr. Bonebrake - chiropractor. :chuckle

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NurseFirst said:
Where I grew up there was a dentist by the name of Dr. Toothacker (don't remember how it was spelled.)

One of my dentists when I was a kid co-owned a candy company.. :idea:

When I was growing up, there was a physician, Frank Slaughter, who wrote medical novels--great stuff, he was always talking about what was current practice at the time (like, when ICUs came in), etc. Great medical history. I think his first novel started out with someone getting a coffee enema, I think for a suicide attempt.

My PCP is Dr. Man; one day I looked at the name of the doctors in that clinic: Ho, Lee, etc. I think the longest name was Greene. I did have Dr. Lee for my PCP at one time and also had an Ophthalmologist Dr. Ly (pronounced the same.)

NurseFirst

Dr.Slaughter passed away about a year and a half ago,he was not only a great surgeon and great writer he had a magnificent sense of humor about his name

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My Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer about a year ago ... the urologist who has been treating him is named Dr. Winkle :roll

If thats not bad enough, hes also being treated by an ocologist who's called Dr. Swindle!!

We all had a good chuckle at that one!

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