A little pet peeve

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OK, I just gotta say this, but I know it's really petty:

WEITLANER!!!!!!!! It's called a WEITLANER!!!!!

W-E-I-T-L-A-N-E-R!!!!!!!

So why do even experienced nurses persist in adding a "D" to it and calling it a "weitlanDer?"

That has bothered me for over 25 years.

OK, now I feel better.

Thanks for letting me vent.

my fav from pts...."VOMIKIN AND DI-REAR"

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We used to have so many patients asking for "Phen-uh-grin" that one of the nurses I worked with started writing it that way in the nurses' notes, just to be funny. :D

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ideal instead of idea

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Specializes in CVOR,CNOR,NEURO,TRAUMA,TRANSPLANTS.

ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Well Stevie lol I pronouce it correctly but with my southern twag it sounds as if I put a D in it but I do not , but atleast I know what to hand when its said. lol .Hey I can even pass it before the Dr thinks he needs it ROFLMAO

So does it get on your nevers when the Dr asks for the "thingamajig"?

Zoe

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(i thought it was weitlander too...but I've only ever heard it from one doc and one tech, so at least it's only 2 people that i've heard it wrong from....)

I hate it when people say orientated, too. Or defibulator or abdomum.

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stevierae,

I think the "D" was added because it is easier to say that way. You are right, many people think that the correct pronunciation/spelling includes a "D".

Some of my favorites--

where I work, one of our pick room techs calls the arterial tray the "artillery tray". Many of us have picked up on this, and now I even think of it as the artillery tray!

Hewson suture passers - many people call them "Houston" suture passers.

Ferris Smith forceps = "Ferris Bueller" pick-ups

Patients often say - "the doctor is going to fix my "rotary cup"

Once when on call, the hospital operator called me in for "a reproduction of a hip"--after pondering several minutes I realized she meant reduction of a dislocated hip.

And Zoe - what about when the surgeon asks for "give me an uh, uh, uh..."

-or- "give me a Whatchamacallit...No, not that one!"

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Specializes in CVOR,CNOR,NEURO,TRAUMA,TRANSPLANTS.

Yes I usually give the surgeon the Thingamabob and hopes that what he wants.......

Had a PA once ask me for the castanetts... , the castros, the ferris buellers, and the thing over there with teeth.

How I love those

Zoe

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(warning--not politically correct...)

One doc asks for the "West Virginia clamp"--you know, the one WITHOUT teeth!!

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Originally posted by NurseGirlKaren

(warning--not politically correct...)

One doc asks for the "West Virginia clamp"--you know, the one WITHOUT teeth!!

That's a good one!!

I used to workwith an Arabic doctor who called Israel rakes "Palestinian retractors."

And a vascular guy who could never remember Castroviejo, so he called it "Garcia y Vega" (like the cigar.)

I think since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" almost everybody has taken to callling Ferris-Smiths "Ferris-Bueller's."

Also non-PC, but common: calling Ferris-Smith's "Polish Adsons."

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That orientated thing irritates me to no end too!! One of our instructors even included that error in a lecture once and warned us that if she ever heard any of us say it she'd wring our necks!

Also "prostrate" gland - prostate

Or how about "auldtimer's" instead of Alzheimer's

I know there are more, but I can't think of them at the moment - probably a defense mechanism :D

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How about idear instead of idea.

Marijke

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nurseshell, I've heard all of those!

Another one I hear occasionally, "O2 Stat" instead of Sat.

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