02-09-2009, 04:52 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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Originally Posted by Brianna
We used to say FLK (funny looking kid) when a kid was ugly but not necessarily medically deformed. The kidjust looked weird. The parents, inevitably, looked weird, too.
Medicine uses a lot of military jargon---Fubar, snafu, stfu...
Here's some more I found:
Some others....
ART = The patient died. Stands for "Assuming room temperature."
CC = Also used when the patient has died. Means "Cancel Christmas."
WUD = Woke-up dead.
GDA = "Gonna die anyway." Sometimes written as "F BUNDY" (@#$%ed, but unfortunately not dead yet.)
FDGB = "Fall down, go boom"
GOMER = It stands for "Get out of my emergency room", e.g. used in reference to junkies trying to scam drugs from the ER.
CCFCCP = Used when the patient is obviously not mentally cogent. It stands for "Coo-coo for coco puffs."
EMS = Of course this really stands for "Emergency medical services" but the joke is that it stands for "Earn money sleeping."
TMB = This is the cause of death indicated when the patient is very old. It stands for "Too many birthdays."
Heme = A slang term for blood, used when the patient or family is listening and it might upset them.
Occipital Implant = A gunshot wound in the head.
Terminal deceleration = Fatal car crash.
FLB = "Funny looking bumps", a way to describe an abnormal EKG.
MUH = Another nondescript way to indicate a coronary condition. Means "messed up heart."
WNL = It's supposed to stand for "Within normal limits", e.g. "BP WNL" is "blood pressure within normal limits", but the joke is that it really stands for "We never looked."
PAFO - "Pissed And Fell Over
Rule of Five - means that if more than five of the patient's orifices are obscured by tubing, they have no chance of survival.
UBI - "Unexplained Beer Injury.
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These're great!
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