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 ER, 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!

Diladapin

Some of us in the ER I used to work in came up with, in the spirit of Caduet, some other "combo" drugs that would make our lives easier:

"Dilaudegan"

"Toraflex"

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

A couple more I thought of:

"love-knocks" Lovenox

I once had a CPR instuctor tell us to: "...squeeze their nipples together before giving rescue breaths..." (I think he was thinking of drawing a line between the nipples, and squeezing the nostrils. But maybe we should try this "nipple squeezing" technique)

He didn't catch it; I was dying laughing!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

My mom calls darvocet "darbocet". Drives me crazy.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I have also had nurses say "The pt is being admitted with a acute exasperation of asthma/copd/ms" The word is exacerbation.

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Specializes in Rehab, Neuro, Travel Nurse, Home Care.

One time I was working at this hospital that had a nickname for ducolax tabs. They called it dook tabs (like dooky...I know nasty). So I was a brand new nurse and I was copying off the experienced nurses. Everybody knew what you was talking about when you called them that. I looked up the real name the first time I gave it., but since I never called it that, it erased from my memory.

Fast Forward..So a couple years later I work at another hospital and I asked the resident if he could order dook tabs for my patient. He said what is that? I forgot the real name. I felt so stupid.:uhoh3: After a few min, I remembered the name, but the resident left and I was too embarrassed to page him about it.

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Specializes in Med Surg, Case Management, OR.

Rozerem:

ROSER-um (and this was even when they were running commercials about it on TV!)

Viagra:

That Man pill

Verapamil:

Vrap-imill

Lortab:

Low-trab

Ondansetron:

Ahn-dawns-eh-tron (no, they were not European English speakers)

Albuterol:

Albutrol

:lol2:

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I work with a nurse who calls a mammogram, a "mammbogram". Well, you know those mammbos need checked once a year!

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Specializes in Pedatrics, Child Protection.
Well, in my book there is Lopressor and Dilantin...lol

You and me both! Thank god for trade names!:yeah:

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

Ondansetron:

Ahn-dawns-eh-tron (no, they were not European English speakers)

This sounds like a Transformer.

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Specializes in Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology..

I've heard a few different variations for Quetiapine,and have one nurse that just can't get her tongue around Bendroflumethiazide at all.

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Specializes in NICU, School Nursing, & Community Health.

My second month as a nurse, I said to my preceptor, "you still need to show me how to use that MAN-O-METER." I was the butt of that joke for months =)

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Try-locks or De-locks (red capsule)

Demberil

Dah-va-cette' dahling (Genteel Southern Lady)

Arm-beans for sleep

d'law-deed (slurred sleepily)

Here's an old one Fletcher's Cafeteria ( castoria laxative from the 50s)

I have a poor cath in my chest and I need my Big D

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