Thursday, December 27, 2007

Medical slang

I was doing some blog surfing yesterday and was reading Healthbolt. There, I learned about Doing a Hasselhoff. You can read more here.

I can honestly say, that these were new to me!

News for Today:

Honey-drenched dressings touted as the bee's knees for wounds
Bevacizumab found to improve survival for patients with advanced breast cancer
Brief intervention helps emergency patients reduce drinking
Stimulating muscles may improve musician's dystonia

3 comments:

  1. They were new to me too.

    Hope you had a lovely Christmas, Marijke.

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  2. I saw the same post and wrote one (that I'm going to post later in the week) cribbing from the same list. Some of the terms really are amusing but some could be pretty offensive if seen by a patient!

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  3. Thanks Dawn - you too!

    Crabby, we're going to have to start getting together on these.
    ;-)

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