Biggus Dickus
One thing I hate about medicine is the use of words that patients won’t understand. This is ostensibly so that we can talk about them in the most unflattering terms right under their noses. We talk about myocardial infarctions instead of heart attacks, refer to high BMIs instead of obesity and talk about ethanol intake instead of alcoholism. This secret language is all part of the priest-like culture of doctoring where you need a “vocation” to join.
But today I wish I had used the lingo. I met a lady with cancer and was asked to comment on her general appearance. Instead of sounding professional and referring to “alopecia” I described her as having recently got “a very short haircut.”
Then my lecturer cunningly called me the Latin for “dickhead”.
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distorte said:
Saying BMI instead of obesity and ethanol instead of alcohol is like spelling out S-E-X and hoping the fourteen-year-old in the room won’t understand you.
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