The secret language of doctors
Subtitle: cracking the code of hospital culture
By: Dr. Brian Goldman
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781629370927
Subjects: Medicine; Physician and patient; Communication in medicine; Terminology
Description: Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television. In The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient. What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of "incarceritis"? What are "blocking" and "turfing"? And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma"? Dr. Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients, situations, and medical conditions--including those they don't want you to know. Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture.--
Table of contents: title: The bunker; title: Slangmeister; title: Code brown and other bodily fluids; title: Status dramaticus; title: Failure to die; title: Swallowers; title: Caesarean section consent form; title: Incarceritis; title: Harpooning the whale; title: Frequent flyers; title: Blocking and turfing; title: Cowboys and fleas; title: Horrendomas; title: Circling the drain; title: Slang police.