Ways I have heard Metoprolol pronounced...by medical personnel.

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Was on the phone with a nurse today getting a pt's med list and she said one of the meds the pt was on was "MET-rol-pol"...Uh...Metoprolol?? "Yeah, okay." Oh brother!

So what have you heard meds called - by MEDICAL personnel...who theoretically should know better?

Specializes in Critcal Care.
I suffer from LYS-DEX-IA....

My tang gets all tungled up....and oh well, it's just ugly sometimes....

Ya know that "look alike/sound alike" list that the pharmacy is always alerting us about....like LUNTESTA and NUELESTA....etc???

I think drug names are just another sinister plot.....

I also have a question:

Why is it that nurses are required to dot every i and cross every t, and make sure their notes are legible.....but DOCTORS can slop their pens all over a chart so that it resembles something akin to a cross between artwork by a chimpanzee and a four year old on a sugar high, and somehow THAT'S OKAY???

I guess different initials after your name entitles you to sloppiness privilege.

ugh.

Your comment here made me laugh out loud! And after the day I've had, that is no small feat! You are so right about the docs! I've spent as much as 45 min of my day trying to decipher an order, calling to verify, etc. I don't like charting everything on a computer, but I do wish these docs had to type out everything. It would make my life so much simpler. :lol2:

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Had a biology professor of all people who insisted that it was chLo-lesterol. Used to drive me nuts!

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Specializes in Nursing Ed, Ob/GYN, AD, LTC, Rehab.

I always say Impetigo incorrectly and for the life of me I cannot say famotidine!!! Its a tounge twister for me!

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does anyone know the correct pronunciation of duodenum?

i've heard it du-o-denum and duo-de-num.

just curious. :)

leslie

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Specializes in Adult Hematology/Oncology.

Okay, I have to ask... which way is correct? I've heard MeTOProlol and MetoPROlol. *laughs*

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Heard one of the clinical instructors come into my room, and tell the student that the pt was on Prof-fo-fol...

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Specializes in Nursing Ed, Ob/GYN, AD, LTC, Rehab.
does anyone know the correct pronunciation of duodenum?

i've heard it du-o-denum and duo-de-num.

just curious. :)

leslie

the dictionary says "[color=#880000]doo-uh-dee-nuhthinsp.pngm"

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Specializes in onc, M/S, hospice, nursing informatics.
does anyone know the correct pronunciation of duodenum?

i've heard it du-o-denum and duo-de-num.

just curious. :)

leslie

Depends what part of the country you are from. In CA, I learned it as

duo-de-num and in LA I heard it as du-od-enum.

I also had an instructor who said colon-scopy with a southern twang that would not quit!

:lol2:

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Well, in my book there is Lopressor and Dilantin...lol

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Specializes in Pulmonology/Critical Care, Internal Med.

My pharm professor says bar-bi chur-ates for barbituates, and a$$ e teal choline for acetylcholine. Drives me NUTS !!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

I can't even pronounce metoprolol and I take it!

I have a problem with the word rural as well. Go figure. And too many others to mention.

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Ok, not a drug, but makes my teeth grit EVERY time I hear a nurse say the patient "is on O2 2L and is STATTING 92%". Oxygen saturation is an O2 SAT. Not a STAT. Grrr.

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