8 ways doctors secretly insult you.

[mamasaurus]

www.cracked.com/article_16302_8-medical-terms-your-doctor-uses-to-insult-you.html

Some of these are sad/cynical, but I am LOLing at "brothel sprouts."

[dixeedeluxe]

This does not happen IRL! Is this site like The Onion? Meaning, are these fake articles?

[monkeybabe]

Jan 2, 2013 12:56:28 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

This does not happen IRL! Is this site like The Onion? Meaning, are these fake articles?

Most of the stuff on cracked is meant to be amusing.

[spaghetticat]

I'm sitting in the waiting room at the gyn and I'm afraid to read this.

[spaghetticat]

Yeah, just read it and I found it pretty sad and disturbing. Cletus the Fetus?

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Cracked is like Mad, ladies!

Sent from the future.

[bellewithablade]

Don't worry, those aren't real. I have heard donorcycle used by a variety of people, and we do say a patient is circling the drain when they are actively dying. Those two aren't meant as insults. The other stuff is nonsense

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 2, 2013 14:44:58 GMT -5 @pcloadletter said:

I was hoping one of our medical people would chime in. I'm guessing there may be doctors out there that do say things like that, but it isn't widespread.

Since 2003, my job has been to read medical records. I've NEVER seen these acronyms. A day doesn't go by that I don't see a new one that I have to Google or one of our 80 docs come to me and ask me what an acronym is (then I just Google it for them, ugh). I can say with confidence that this isn't real!

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 2, 2013 14:48:28 GMT -5 @pcloadletter said:

Jan 2, 2013 14:46:50 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

Since 2003, my job has been to read medical records. I've NEVER seen these acronyms. A day doesn't go by that I don't see a new one that I have to Google or one of our 80 docs come to me and ask me what an acronym is (then I just Google it for them, ugh). I can say with confidence that this isn't real!

They may not put it on the chart, but there might be some jackwagon out there that says stuff like that.

Welllll, I can also say with confidence that I've dealt with doctors who think patients are just complainers. Ugh.

[mamasaurus]

The only one I heard before was "cut and paste," by a friend who is a nurse. She hasn't used it mockingly, though. More like, "We thought it was operable, but it turned out to be a cut and paste situation." Since I heard it before, I was hoping "brothel sprouts" was real.

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 2, 2013 14:56:17 GMT -5 mamasaurus said:

The only one I heard before was "cut and paste," by a friend who is a nurse. She hasn't used it mockingly, though. More like, "We thought it was operable, but it turned out to be a cut and paste situation." Since I heard it before, I was hoping "brothel sprouts" was real.

This one isn't insulting, though. So, this one doesn't bug me if it's real.