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Irreverent Medical Acronyms

Irreverent Medical Acronyms

Medical slang nowadays tends to be restricted to oral use and to informal notes that do not form part of a patient’s formal records. Read on and you'll realise why.

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Doctors use a variety of acronyms and other medical slang terms to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and other medical situations.

In hospitals, morbid humour, irreverence and euphemism is a way of coping with daily exposure to injury, disease and death, so many of those terms are pej…

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