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Author Goldman, Brian, author.

Title The secret language of doctors : cracking the code of hospital culture / Dr. Brian Goldman.

Publication Info. Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  610 GOLDMAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  610 GOLDMAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  610.73 GOLDMAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  610.73 GOLDMAN    Check Shelf
Description 351 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television. In The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient. What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of "incarceritis"? What are "blocking" and "turfing"? And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma"? Dr. Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients, situations, and medical conditions--including those they don't want you to know. Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture."-- Publisher's web site.
Contents The bunker -- Slangmeister -- Code brown and other bodily fluids -- Status dramaticus -- Failure to die -- Swallowers -- Caesarean section consent form -- Incarceritis -- Harpooning the whale -- Frequent flyers -- Blocking and turfing -- Cowboys and fleas -- Horrendomas -- Circling the drain -- Slang police.
Subject Medicine -- Terminology.
Communication in medicine.
Physician and patient.
Communication -- Popular Works.
Physician-Patient Relations -- Popular Works.
Terminology as Topic -- Popular Works.
ISBN 1629370924
9781629370927
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