I am doing a speech on making the most of a visit to a doctor. I want to emphasize the importance of knowing the proper name for diagnoses. I need some help coming up with unusual, weird, cultural, or just plain improper names for diagnoses...things like "piles" instead of hemorrhoids, "high blood" instead of high blood pressure, or "the sugar" instead of diabetes. I've searched the Internet and am just not finding what I am looking for.
Can anyone help me out? I am not asking people to do my homework for me...LOL...I have been a nurse for a long time...just furthering my education. ?
Green fever or spring fever--anemia, which was often worse at the tail end of winter and the beginning of spring due to lack of meat or other sources of iron, often treated by drinking sassafras tea
Bad blood: some kind of STD--I wasn't supposed to hear about that ;p
Flux--diarrhea
Bloody flux--I bet you can guess
Canker sores
Apoplexy: stroke
Tick fever
Bilious fever--something to do with your liver
Menstruating: "I'm in the flowers." "Aunt Flo is visiting." "My friend is visiting."
Ague: fever with chills
Black lung--emphysema from breathing coal dust
Lockjaw--tetorifice
I cheated--I called my mom and asked her to add on to what I remember my grandma saying :)
I don't think there's anything wrong with calling plavix aspirin or coumadin "blood thinners" when talking with patients. Especially those who aren't very educated. Trying to explain to them that this one's a NSAID or that one's an anti-platelet is an exercise in pointlessness.
I don't think there's anything wrong with calling plavix aspirin or coumadin "blood thinners" when talking with patients. Especially those who aren't very educated. Trying to explain to them that this one's a NSAID or that one's an anti-platelet is an exercise in pointlessness.
Until they stop taking it because their feet are too cold or their blood is too thin.
I don't think there's anything wrong with calling plavix aspirin or coumadin "blood thinners" when talking with patients. Especially those who aren't very educated. Trying to explain to them that this one's a NSAID or that one's an anti-platelet is an exercise in pointlessness.
I didn't say anything was wrong with it. Just that someone said blood thinners = anti platelets. Depending on what med they are speaking of it makes sense.
Pia Mater
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Blood thinners= anti-platelets