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 Telemetry, Nursery, Post-Partum.
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I think that's why the Metoprolol struck me as so funny - for the longest time I pronounced it METRO-pro-lol! Never had a problem with Hydrochlorothyazide (sp?;) ), though, go figure!

Oh, this is so me! And so many words are "right" in my head but come out all wrong...like encephalopathy.

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This never happned to me, but my classmates had trouble pronouncing the word "acetaminophen."

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Specializes in Tele, ED/Pediatrics, CCU/MICU.

how about "sphygmomanometer?"

hehehe... I can say it as long as I focus... :p

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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.

Oh goodness - that one drives me INSANE!!!!!

Same as Orientate!

And phenergran!

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Met-RON-izole instead of Metronidazole.

One of my NP preceptors. We had a good relationship so one afternoon I spelled it out for her on the exam-bed paper. Normally I don't correct people but I didn't want the patients getting mixed up if they had to tell another provider what meds they were on.

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.

How about the different ways to pronounce Dilaudid:

dilandid

dilautin

dilauntin

dilaudinum

"that pain shot that starts with d"

So many people love it, so few can pronounce it!

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
LOL! I can't say anesthetist either. I always feel so embarrassed when it happens but my co-workers are used to my problem with it now and know what I am trying to say!

:balloons:

the answer with pronouncing Anaesthetist , paediatrics, haemoglobin etc is to pronounce them as ifthey were spelled properly and oringinally i.e. with the 'ae'

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tye-nol

Prill-osec

Atnenol

Triamcinnomon (Triamcinolone)

Zither-max

Hiker-done (hydrocodone)

Triamertin (triamteren)

Chanted (Chantix)

Pree-marin

Sahma (Soma)(in the north!)

Fetannal (Fentanyl)

And one of my all-time favorite med-name stories....

The diabetic man who would only call his Novolog by it's chemical name...aspart.

"Because that's where you inject it! In your aspart!"

:lol2::lol2::lol2:

Yep. It was funny the first 10 times I heard it. It got a little old, though.

He thought he was the cleverest thing ever.

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

My hubby always says Finnegan for Phenergan.

My aunt and my father still say Ambeeumm for Ambien

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Specializes in Med-Surg, ED.

Kind of brings back the 'an GIN a" vs "AN gina" debate.

I tend to massacre the longer words. One that I absolutely can't say is 'reconciliation' as in the med reconciliation forms. I always sound like I left my tongue at home when I try.

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Specializes in LTC.

A co-worker pronounced dysphagia- dys-faggia! That got some heads rolling but no one had the ump to tell her the right way!

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Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.

I had a patient the other day ask me for his "percentin" It took me a while to figure out that what he was trying to say was "percocet"

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