OMG Say it correctly!

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Supervisory, HEDIS, IT.

There is just somethings that really bother me, specifically mispronunciation of words. The specific abbreviation that realllllly grinds my gears is when a nurse or CNA/PCT says " O2 STATS" O2 "stat"uration?

Anyone have anything else that people misspell or mispronounce that gets them going??

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There have been a few threads like this and it seems everywhere somebody says O2 stats!

It always irks me when people say amNiodarone instead of amiodarone, or the multiple ways in which people butcher metoprolol.

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"Orientated". I got 'orientated' to my job today. Mrs. Smith is alert and 'orientated'. . .

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There have been a few threads like this and it seems everywhere somebody says O2 stats!

It always irks me when people say amNiodarone instead of amiodarone, or the multiple ways in which people butcher metoprolol.

My mom took metprolal for her essential tremors!

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Specializes in Oncology.

This isn't medical related but every time someone says "pitchers" when they are speaking of "pictures" I want to scream.

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orientated is a perfectly fine word....you just aren't used to hearing it.

"Orientated". I got 'orientated' to my job today. Mrs. Smith is alert and 'orientated'. . .
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regional dialect.....? like axed instead of asked?.

This isn't medical related but every time someone says "pitchers" when they are speaking of "pictures" I want to scream.
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Specializes in Med/Surg,Cardiac.
regional dialect.....? like axed instead of asked?.

Ohhhh that one hits me hard. Along with using the wrong words like "she don't be wanting that medication." I dislike it.

Dilaudid gets mispronounced frequently as well.

"A lot" has that space.

I see charting sometimes with missing a missing "g" that makes it sound like I'm living in Sweet Home Alabama.

Then the infamous spelling of purulent that had a pervasive meaning.

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Epidural- epidermal, epiderbal, epigermal. That's patients though :)

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

Two that really get to me:

Cardiazem (for Cardizem)

Vancomiacin (for Vancomycin)

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Not medical per se, but here are my pet peeves of pronunciation (how alliterative of me :) )

Feb-YOU- ary instead of FebRUary

Temp-a-chur instead of tempERature

Lit-a-chur instead of litERature

ELL-inois instead of ILLinois

My late mother was a stickler for these types of things. If you want to hear someone who pronounces words correctly every time- listen to Alex Trebek (the host of Jeopardy).

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
If you want to hear someone who pronounces words correctly every time- listen to Alex Trebek (the host of Jeopardy).

I would probably pronounce everything correctly too if I got a 2nd (or 3rd, etc.) take every time I pronounced something incorrectly. ;)

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