Words that make you go "Duh-OH!"

[9D4]

Why? Don't you ever drive the ambulance?

What if they got hired in a non driver status?

 

[mycrofft]

SHER-bert..

It's SHER-bet..

chi-POLT-tay..

No, it's chi-POAT-lay..

And angina rhymes with vagina?? .. and prostrate with an extra "R".

And bar-bit-u-ate.. There's an "R" in there..

Silicone? No, it's silicon.

And when people say "bob wire". Or dialate (dilate)..

And perscription..

I could go on forever.

Merriam Webster. that busybody, says either way is OK for anigina.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angina

 

[mycrofft]

Had a CPR student from Knoxville who pronounced the state as "Mizzippi" when trying to count seconds. Since everything in ARC CPR is now "…or after than", he passed doing 25% more than he needed.

 

[mycrofft]

EDIT:

Had a CPR student from Knoxville who pronounced the state as "Mizzippi" when trying to count seconds. Since everything's rate in ARC CPR is now "…or more than", he passed doing 25% more than he needed.

 

[mycrofft]

Remembered some today:

"pope-LITeal" (popliteal).

"IN-tuss-sushion" (intussusception)

Oh, and :
"Compound fracture": right there by "paraneoplastic syndrome", meaning "bad break", often but not always diagnosable without X-ray.

In the hands of language obfuscatinator, it can mean any of the following:

• open fracture
• limb angulated at more than one spot
• comminuted fracture seen on X-ray
• a common angulated fracture

 

[Ewok Jerky]

ExasTURBation, as in acute COPD exasturbation.

 

[Medic Tim]

ExasTURBation, as in acute COPD exasturbation.

Lol haven't heard that one yet... If it was said around here the medic would never live it down.

 

[mycrofft]

Sounds….dirty.h34r:

 

[SandpitMedic]

This word makes me go "doh!!"

Dilaudid

 

[SandpitMedic]

From a patient of course.


Oh and:
Am-buh-lance
Am-buh-lant
Am-ma-lances
Am-bah-lan
Am-ber-lant
E-M-Teases
Am-lance driver
Medicaid

 

[mycrofft]

I found myself using this word:

"naso-oro-tracheaophayngeal" instead of "upper airway".
Duh-oh ME!

 

[Rialaigh]

"I take peanut butter balls every day"

"You take what ma'am?"

"Peanut butter balls, you know, that medication"

"uhmm...Do you have the bottle"

"Sure right here"

"Ah...Pentobarbital..."



Peanut Butter Balls...

 

[Handsome Robb]

From a patient of course.





Oh and:

Am-buh-lance

Am-buh-lant

Am-ma-lances

Am-bah-lan

Am-ber-lant

E-M-Teases

Am-lance driver

Medicaid

You forgot Amberlamps

 

[mycrofft]

AMBERLAMPS! So THAT's the ephemeral "Code 2"!

On another note:

 

[Ewok Jerky]

This word makes me go "doh!!"

Dilaudid

I had a professor (MD) pronounce it die-loud-ed.

 

[mycrofft]

"AAH-se-TEEL" versus "ah-SEE-tyl" (for "Acetyl").

 

[SandpitMedic]

AMBERLAMPS! So THAT's the ephemeral "Code 2"!

On another note:

I think # 10 is correct though.

I learned it like this:

Lions can't lie, but they can always lay.

 

[mycrofft]

I think # 10 is correct though.

I learned it like this:

Lions can't lie, but they can always lay.

I lay down my rifle then l lie down to sleep.
I tell my men to lay themselves down and do likewise. (proper then)

 

[Rialaigh]

Health Care Professionals who say things like

HE-MAWWWW-GLA-BIN (Hemoglobin....)

 

[jzero652]

mozzarella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGLDvZryiFo

Caribbean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNew0aXjEEc