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so what are some of the abreviations used informally in your institution to describe patients.
there are the old ones from Samuel Shems book "House of God"
GOMER get out of my ER
LOLNAD little old lady in no apparent distress
Then the appropriated military ones.
FUBAR f'd up beyond all recognition
SNAFU Situation normal all f'd up
Then there are the ones I have learned since nursing school
TFBUNDY totally F'd but unfortunately not dead yet
JPFROG just plan f'n ran out of gas
AMF kind of like AMA, only Adios Mother F'r (very good for some er pt's.)
care to add some more to the list?
Just hysterical this bunch of acronyms!
In London we also use Code Brown (too regularly!).
FLK has also been heard, closely followed by JLATM (Just look at the mother!).
In one of my old jobs we also had two distinct categories:
PFH and RFH - namely, Patients From Hell and, yes, you guessed it.....Rellies From Hell.
Keep smilin' people.
semstr
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In German this means: leck mich am Arsch, need a translation? OK
Kiss my a$$.
So first time I saw, LMAO, I thought, wow, people have a very rude attitude here! Till I learned that this meant something absolutely different!!
Take care, Renee