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.

[WV-RN]

Mammiogram. Usually an LOL that says it.

[Dogen]

Someone should write a short story and include as many of the words from this thread as possible. The Most Uncomfortable Story Ever, or, "the moist meatus and the purulent pus of the pannus."

[Lakeshore18]

I hate it when adults use cutesy or baby terms for bodily functions as in "Could you please give my mother the bedpan because she needs to go "cocky." I kid you not....a grown woman, who was at least 40 years old, came to the nurses station and uttered that statement! And she said it with a straight face! My colleague and I were laughing our heads off as we went into the room.

As far as difficult to pronounce words go, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, atelectasis, empyema and exacerbation are a few that some nurses on my floor have trouble pronouncing. And I could probably retire by now if I had a dollar for every patient who asked me for some Ty-nol instead of Tylenol. That drives me nuts!

[FluffyBike RN]

I do like gubernaculum though.

[smf0903]

I hate it when adults use cutesy or baby terms for bodily functions as in "Could you please give my mother the bedpan because she needs to go "cocky." I kid you not....a grown woman, who was at least 40 years old, came to the nurses station and uttered that statement! And she said it with a straight face! My colleague and I were laughing our heads off as we went into the room.

As far as difficult to pronounce words go, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, atelectasis, empyema and exacerbation are a few that some nurses on my floor have trouble pronouncing. And I could probably retire by now if I had a dollar for every patient who asked me for some Ty-nol instead of Tylenol. That drives me nuts!

A couple of years ago my 75 year old mother asked her 72 year old sister if she needed to "tinkle". I swear. My aunt about had a heart attack.

[chopwood carrywater]

Any medication name that is more than 3 syllables or has more than 43.39 % consonants.

All the medication brand names that were created to sound like a cross between a perfume and a fairyland dessert.

[suzie821]

Quiet!!!!

[Farawyn]

"Just hop on the scale..."

[Annie Wilkes RN]

I hate the word "sludge." Makes me want to vomit.

And I hate when co-workers or patients pronounce PHENERGAN as "PHENERGREN." Annoys the hell out of me for some reason.

[Farawyn]

I hate the word "sludge." Makes me want to vomit.

And I hate when co-workers or patients pronounce PHENERGAN as "PHENERGREN." Annoys the hell out of me for some reason.

How about the word HOBBLE, Annie? How ya feel about that one? :)

[mrsjonesRN]

I'm from the south...I hate when people say "warsh" instead of "wash."

Or "she learned me something today" as opposed to "she taught me something today."

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

"Just hop on the scale..."

Guilty. I say that every damn day.