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Originally Posted by kjc  As for medical lingo... my MIL came to me one day wanting some Ibupropane as she felt 'off' and thought her electric lights were out of balance. |
Electric lights were out of balance! Oh, my, love it!
My old boss told of a patient's mother in the Parkland ER where he was interning as a young doctor who told him her 20-something son he was treating had Smilin' Mighty Jesus as a teenager when giving the young guy's Past Medical History. When he said he didn't know what that was, she described symptoms of Meningitis and she was trying to say the long term - Spinal Meningitis. Since then I've learned that more than a few people in the South used call to Meningitis Smilin' Mighty Jesus! You can even find that term on the Internet.
Medical mispronunciations and spellings are some of the funniest. Lots of our patients listed staff infections and arthuritis. So many women talked about having a positive mammiogram.