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.

[aqua_clementine]

I hate when nurses/other medical professionals say "Scuds" instead of SCD's. Also, along the same line... "Cabbage" for CABG. [i've actually seen this written out on a report sheet--pt hx: cabbage. Lol!!

[brandy1017, ASN, RN]

Altered mental status! Worst words ever! Dread overcomes me at the sound! lol

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

sharkbacon said:

Orientate, for sure.

Also, completely incorrect, but I see it entirely more than I should when scanning ER charts-- "***** drainage" instead of "purulent drainage." Like, please no.

Also. Stomach flu.

Maybe they did have ***** drainage. Did you ask?

[canigraduate]

Rural.

Try saying THAT with a Southern accent. I sound like half my tongue's missing.

My brother had a speech disability where he would switch l's and r's, and sometimes substitute y's and w's. It was soooo cute, especially when he said "yular." Until his speech teacher got him straightened out and he said it better than me. **Pout**

(He was so stinkin' cute when he was little. Love you, brother-of-my-heart!!)

Here's some more:

Enervate. Pustulent. Rancid. Gobbous. Globulous. Globule. Evacuate. Mayo enema. Ejaculate. Encrusted.

Most of these give me mental images I would love to be able to scrub out of my mind's eye.

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

phlegm

[Toastedpeanut]

I can't stop laughing at these comments! I'm "literally" cryin' ova hea!

[invaindmk]

Blood vein, & moisture whicking(sp?) make me mad & sick.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

"Cabbage" for CABG. [i've actually seen this written out on a report sheet--pt hx: cabbage. Lol!!

We've always pronounced it "cabbage". However, it would appear to confuse the non-medical people in our surgical scheduling department, because they will change the automatic booking procedure of "CABG" to "cabbage".

Nurse: Can you tell me what kind of surgery you're having today?

Patient: Vegetable surgery.

[Julius Seizure]

Any and all "medical" words that patients families THINK they have right, but then you see them write it down and they just totally butcher it.

Saw a parent write down "adovan" today for what we gave her child for agitation.

albootaral for their child's azma

Mersa

IB profan

"When are you going to extabate my baby?"

[Joyel]

Preventative. Somewhere along the line a silly syllable was added. Most of my life the word was " preventive". Have they decided that more syllables make them seem wiser?

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

ICU nurses nightmare LOL

[PrimeRib]

We give quite a bit of metroprolol on our unit. Patients usually don't like being on lasik drips, because they end up being up all night peeing.