Words You Hate

[OyWithThePoodles]

Is there a medical word that you absolutely hate? Or one that you can never seem to pronounce correctly?

Hate:

• Meatus. (Eww)
• Gargle.

Mispronounce:

Prophylaxis. I ALWAYS say prophylaxicks.

I have a co-worker that says Cefazolin wrong and is convinced she is right. Drives me nuts.

[dec2007]

Different reason, but I hate the phrase "skill set", the new buzz-word of management. The phrase "it is what it is" is a close second!

[dec2007]

"Axe" instead of "ask" and " nuc-u-ler" instead of "nuclear"!

[irishicugal]

Hello! I'm on the other side of the Atlantic and I find "oriented" as infuriating as "orientated" seems to rile you guys, it just doesn't sit well with me (a bit like aluminum, it's alluMINium ********* lol)

I'll second "smegma" *shudders

Flaccid

Purulent

Necrotising

And I can't hear "fournier's gangrene" without wanting to cross my legs, even though I haven't got a scrotum!!

[Loracs72]

Prophylaxis is a good one ! Flatulence, Flatus are my dislikes

[maxov]

Orientate is correct English. It's wrong American.

[dsevier]

Secretions

[rubynrse, ADN, RN]

Expired. No, milk expires, patients do not!

Mixing and mispronouncing dysphasia & dysphagia.

Not using the words: SOB & dyspnea, correctly.

Mucus! Not only do I dislike the word, I just can't "do" it. I'll clean up poop, blood, bodily fluids, emesis, etc., but please, please someone suction that trach, blow that kid's nose, get rid of that slimy sticky goo!! Please! 

[tkostas]

I hate the word phlegm or anything related to sputum.

[Cheri174evr]

Mispronounce: Phenergan. I hear it mispronounced as Phenergran. It really irks me that college educated nurses can't pronounce it correctly.

[SmilingBluEyes]

parabens

[Farawyn]

parabens

LOVE parabens.

[babyIT]

When someone refers to a woman's pregnant abdomen as her stomach.” I have heard that from both patients and clinicians.