Words You Hate

And your senior team agreed to the use of "juicy cough" in the documentation? Very odd.

Productive cough. Wet cough. Those are better. Juicy cough makes me giggle!

"excubate" instead of extubate

The word "flaccid" always makes me giggle. For some weird reason.

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Pendulous (it's hanging and it could theoretically swing? oh no, uh-uh )

Ha! For some reason, this reminds me of when my badge clip had a retractable string, and I put a few too many keys, cards and the like on it.

When I would lean over a patient to turn or clean, my ID had a tendency to pull down, hang, and swing. Usually near or *in* something it had no business being close to.  I finally wised up and fixed it.

(Yes, it also made me think of other "things") 

"excubate" instead of extubate

How about "incubate" instead of "intubate"?

This is usually the family's mistake, but it's still hilarious. "They incubated Gramma last year!" It would be nails on a chalkboard for me if someone in healthcare said it, though.

Sometimes people in their speech will form an imagined verb from orientation and say orientate. At best, orientate is a back-formation used humorously to make the speaker sound pompous. The correct word is the verb orient. 

Sputum and feces lol

Cream and affidavit

Actually heard a surgeon tell a postop patient they were going to check his tummy. Like really?

I use words like tummy and potty frequently. But then, I'm a pediatric nurse.

That pronunciation of meto-prolol drives me nuts too!

"Go live" used for everything from new computer system to the rollout of a new bandaid