Derogatory Slang in the Hospital Setting

Abstract

In the on-call lounge late one evening, two residents compared notes on their respective rotations, with four medical students listening in."I am totally fried," said Jane, a second-year resident in general surgery. "We spent three hours in the hole digging for an appendix on a 22-year-old woman." "Why did it take so long?" asked Mike, a resident in internal medicine. "Let's just say she was a bit fluffy," said Jane. "Exactly three clinic units fluffy. She has a Milwaukee goiter so huge it took two of my students to keep it from getting in the way. We've got her on megadose vitamin C. The over-under on her bounceback for wound infection is six days." "Sounds like a horrendoma," said Mike supportively."Be glad you aren't a surgeon," said Jane."IM has its charms," said Mike sarcastically. "I've already admitted three walkers to the floor. Two dyscopias and a selfie who keeps yanking on his food snorkel. The latter is full code, by the way."