What the what??

Always_Learning, BSN, RN · Dec 12, 2011

Metoprolol was my downfall for a few weeks. I work a frickin' cardiac floor! I now pronounce it correctly, TYVM. :)
meh TOPE ruh lol
See?

The "meta-PRO-lawl" pronunciation always makes me go "Huh?"...especially since a few of the more experienced nurses on my unit pronounce it this way. ("Meh-TOE-pro-lawl", please! )

Another one that never failed to send me into bouts of laughter came from a former professor. I'm not saying it's incorrect...it just cracked me up. You know that developmental phase that teens go through where they sexually mature? Yeah..."POO-berty." :lol2:

*tee hee*

Cat_RN, ASN, BSN, RN · Dec 12, 2011

The "meta-PRO-lawl" pronunciation always makes me go "Huh?"...especially since a few of the more experienced nurses on my unit pronounce it this way. ("Meh-TOE-pro-lawl", please! )
*tee hee*

I've been trying to find the right way to say this for a while. I've heard MD's and pharmacists say both the ways. I say Meto-PRO-lol and know people who say both the pronunciations.

I even went to You-tube to look for commercials for the drug to see how they say it but couldn't find any! I guess I consider both correct.

Dixielee, BSN, RN · Dec 12, 2011

Orientate is also my pet peeve!! I'm glad there are others who understand :)

I have seen "breast sounds clear". I never knew breasts made sounds!

I also saw that a seizure patient was post dictal. I didn't even want to know what that meant

Flea bitis is not as common as it use to be I suppose (maybe less fleas??)

Have you ever wondered why the word purulent was invented?? Try to explain that a wound has pus coming from it. Somehow ***** drainage just doesn't chart well! You only have to do it once :uhoh3:

I better stop before I am censored for dirty words:lol2:

Always_Learning, BSN, RN · Dec 13, 2011

I've been trying to find the right way to say this for a while. I've heard MD's and pharmacists say both the ways. I say Meto-PRO-lol and know people who say both the pronunciations.
I even went to You-tube to look for commercials for the drug to see how they say it but couldn't find any! I guess I consider both correct.

Yep, I would never say that one is more correct than another, but "meta-PRO-lawl" just seems even harder to say than "meh-TOE-pro-lawl"...I've tried it and I trip over it every time...LOL...so I guess I'll just stick with the latter!

RescueNinja · Dec 13, 2011

So many of these drive me bananas. The worst is O2 Stats. Or the patient is statting at whatever. Those make my skin crawl!

Shortly after I started a new job about an hour and a half from where I live (not far, but *very* different culture) I asked another nurse if she had any pts on Diltiazem so I could borrow. She said "dial-tye-a-zam?" I said, yes "dill-tye-a-zem." She didn't. I asked another nurse if she had any. She said "dial-tye-a-zam?" By the end of the shift they had me wondering if I was saying it wrong. I looked it up, I was right. It's "dill-tye-a-zem."

The Metoprolol one gets me too. If you look it up, it's supposed to be pronounced Meh-tope-ruh-lol, but I'm guilty of saying Meh-top-ruh-lol. I work in emerg so I give a lot of MeTOProlol and DIALtiazAm

Do-over, ASN, RN · Dec 13, 2011

I had a nursing instructor that told you when you needed to be pacific..(specific) It was soooo hard not to bust out laughing and even when corrected she though it was Ok....:)

Did you go to my school? I pacifically remember an instructor that said it that way all the time...

I didn't dare correct her though, had enough trouble deciphering her ridiculous test questions and answers...

Do-over, ASN, RN · Dec 13, 2011

Yep, I would never say that one is more correct than another, but "meta-PRO-lawl" just seems even harder to say than "meh-TOE-pro-lawl"...I've tried it and I trip over it every time...LOL...so I guess I'll just stick with the latter!

I try to just stick with Lopressor...

RescueNinja · Dec 13, 2011

I've been trying to find the right way to say this for a while. I've heard MD's and pharmacists say both the ways. I say Meto-PRO-lol and know people who say both the pronunciations.
I even went to You-tube to look for commercials for the drug to see how they say it but couldn't find any! I guess I consider both correct.

Here you go :) Push the little pronunciation button at the top

http://www.drugs.com/metoprolol.html

Christy1019, ASN, RN · Dec 13, 2011

haha gotta get me some dill uh taters HAHA

Christy1019, ASN, RN · Dec 13, 2011

Try living in 5 different states and a foreign country during the course of your career. Every place has their quirky pronounciations, and slang words as well.
When I lived overseas, the 'p' was pronounced in words like pneumonia. After all we do say it in apnea, don't we? P-neumothorax was hard for me to get used to saying, but it was expected there!
And English has too many choices sometimes -- why is a 'c' sometimes an 's' and sometimes a 'k'. I think we should just drop the 'c' from our language !!!!
Our language is very strange!!!

i respectfully disagree.. If we lose the 'c', my name would be awfully hard to pronounce.. Hristy/Hristine ... i actually just attempted it out loud and i sound like a 3pk/day smoker with a southern drawal... hmm nope i think i'll keep it the way it is, and DON'T suggest I spell it with a K!.. that is a whole other debate btwn us K's and C's you don't even wanna get into lol :lol2:

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Dec 14, 2011

a lot of these are totally regional. after going to school in the northeast and then practicing in california, i finally started saying, "the word for your chest pain is an-jye-nah or an-jinn-uh, depending on whether your doctor went to harvard or stanford." gave people a little smile, too.

pockunit, ADN, RN · Dec 14, 2011

You say anGIna, I say ANgina.

Or MalabREEGO vs MalabriZHEEO. But one is actually right, which is where my beef begins.

Also: holy cats, this thread took off and I just got a notification!