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

[stillpressingon]

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?

[lil' girl, LPN]

And how about Daavocet?

[morte, LPN, LVN]

And how about Daavocet?

now, if you were from bahston, you would be perfectly correct!...lol

[SylviaC]

I have to agree with you. I'm always asking them what the order says, or if they are not quickly available another nurse and I have to try and figure it out. If we are still just guessing I WILL NOT give the drug until the Doc tells me what it is.

[Virgo_RN, BSN, RN]

Me TROP olol. From a nursing instructor. Consistently.

[SylviaC]

Isn't that the way you are suppose to pronounce it. Me TROP olol; at least that's the way I hear the Docs pronounce it. It is a difficult one to pronounce.

[Virgo_RN, BSN, RN]

No. It's Me TO Pro Lol. The r is after the p.

[tiggerforhim]

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

My crazy psych professor for general psych (college) pronounced acetylcholine as

assy-TOO-ka-lene! Drove me nuts! She also vaccumed her house naked (don't ask how I know), would tell her classes about her love life with her professor-at-the-same-college husband, came dressed up to a Halloween party as the 'moment of conception', and would make her students in the Marriage and Family class start out the semester giving all the slang words they'd ever heard for sex, male, female body parts, etc. She was nuts!!!! And they didn't fire her!!!!:bugeyes:

[tiggerforhim]

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

Same as Orientate!

And phenergran!

Just FYI - Orientate (while driving me crazy too, like STATs, arrrgh) is actually the British english version of our word orient. Don't ask me how it got started in nursing!!!

[Woodenpug, BSN]

Usually I pronounce it low-press-or.

One bio prof, with a PHD lectured on the human in-test-tine-all tract. Took me 15 minutes to realize that this wasn't a new body system.

[MiaLyse, APRN]

I have difficulty with some medication names. One that I hear mispronounced is Risperdal, they will say, "Risperidol" and I'm thinking No, that would be Risperidone.

[Ohmygosh]

I had a psych instructor who called cannabis - cannon balls, and hallucinogens --hal loose no jeans. Took me half an hour of lecture to figure out what the heck she was talking about. Me thinks she might have smoked a couple of "cannon balls" before coming to class.

[crb613, BSN, RN]

I have difficulty with some medication names. One that I hear mispronounced is Risperdal, they will say, "Risperidol" and I'm thinking No, that would be Risperidone.

I am so guilty!!!! I have done this more than once & as soon as I do...

I know the correct way but for some reason the brain & mouth does not always work together! I am so glad I came up on this thread because I am terrible at pronouncing many many drugs! It makes you feel so stupid. I just about die when I have to call a Dr or give report & look down & see something like Trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole!!!!! :imbar Why the crap can they not just write Bactrim That is just an example...a lot of trade names I cannot say either! I am just so glad I am not alone in this! & while I am at it my spelling is horrible too!