One of my favourites was a vet's acronym: DMITO. "Dog More Intelligent Than Owner".

@medievalist

3 жыл бұрын

You couldn't have CMITO. Cats are always more intelligent than owner.

@Fists91

3 жыл бұрын

That phenomenon is so much more common than people realise

@Your.Uncle.AngMoh

3 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious. I will endeavour to use it and PRATTFO at least once in the next 24 hours.

@guarddog318

3 жыл бұрын

Y'know, I'm considered a fairly bright fellow. But even for that, I've been outsmarted by more than one dog over the years. 😕 ( Currently have a cat that seems to make a hobby of it. )

@anitadavidson1266

3 жыл бұрын

Priceless... - no acronym was harmed in the typing of that comment 🥴

I think the best medical acronym is FTD, failure to die, used in cases where there's no possible way a patient should still be alive, but is

@ankavoskuilen1725

3 жыл бұрын

What a complete loser that patient: even fails to die. Anybody can do that!

@antisoda

3 жыл бұрын

I have heard FTD referred to as Fixing To Die. As a synonym to CTD; Circling The Drain.

@medievalist

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh sounds like a particularly horrible aunt of mine. Horrible to her only son. Smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish. Should have croaked years ago. Hasn't.

@witherblaze

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't the proper term be "a f---ing miracle"

@victorymansions

3 жыл бұрын

@@ankavoskuilen1725 I mean, even Gerard knew how to ace that one

My favorite ER record was a woman who, after something like her 150th ER visit in a single year, was diagnosed with “inability to problem solve”

@bubbaguy4411

3 жыл бұрын

soo...would that be an "Eye Dee Ten Tee Error" (ID10T)?

Time for everyone’s favourite show - ‘The Internet melts down in the comment section of a QI video’

@witherblaze

3 жыл бұрын

It's usually just people circle-jerking and making references to other QI clips here.

@ikarikid

3 жыл бұрын

And then it’s IRATTFO?

@rocketforthree4479

3 жыл бұрын

@@witherblaze I mean, thats normal and okay. Sometimes you get some nice anecdotes. but times like now, people are slinging insults around.

@brianm6337

3 жыл бұрын

#@3bears There- I offended everyone. ;D

@ryshow9118

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually my second favorite, 8 Of 10 Cats is my favorite

I can tell you that 'chronic biscuit toxicity' is not the CBT I am concerned with in the least

My favorite term is without doubt when someone is said to have died from “impairment of wellbeing.”

@columbus8myhw

3 жыл бұрын

Just stopped being healthy

Imagine if they'd filmed Sandi doing more than one end card. That'd be pretty sweet

@bobinpune

3 жыл бұрын

Sandy is ok. Not as good as Stephen though. 😄😄😄

@0ceanicify

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Sandi ended

@dax4258

3 жыл бұрын

0ceanicify According to cast, she’s unbearable behind the scenes

@mikegrace7151

3 жыл бұрын

@@dax4258 Never been able to stand her since No. 73

@grmpf

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they did, but couldn't pick one.

Cariad Lloyd's; "Anybody who reads a tweet and doesn't understand it immediately, is offended by it," is the quote of the century.

@zbr76

3 жыл бұрын

She's right on the money with that quote, it has to be said! And this is coming from someone who has met her.

@zbr76

3 жыл бұрын

@@madisntit6547 Far from it! She was absolutely lovely.

@waynemarvin5661

3 жыл бұрын

What did she mean by that? Was it rude? Was it about me? Think I'll be offended just to be on the safe side.

@GarioTheRock

3 жыл бұрын

It is a pity you think that that quote is worth anything. Twitter is obviously a vapid, shallow and degenerate application and website and only a blind alcoholic gibbon could fail to see that.

@lmm2103

3 жыл бұрын

@@GarioTheRock "degenerate" lol

I've heard of GFPO being used somewhere, which was used to describe a motorcyclist that had been in a bad accident and wasn't going to make it; "good for parts only".

@gordonlawrence1448

3 жыл бұрын

If the "urban legend" I heard is true that was started by a UK battlefield medic who ended up in the NHS A&E.

@nagualdesign

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a story I think I heard on QI from Stephen Fry, talking about how doctors refer to motorcyclists as 'donors'. There was a guy in hospital waiting for a transplant and he asked the doctor when he might expect a compatible donor to come along, and the doctor replied, "Well it's raining, so it shouldn't be long now." 😮😂

@frolickinglions

3 жыл бұрын

@@nagualdesign I've heard motorcyclists in Au called "temporary Australians" as they're more likely to die prematurely.

@harrybetteridge7532

3 жыл бұрын

In some US states there are no helmet laws for motorcyclists and patients requiring a replacement internal organ have allegedly been advised by their doctor to relocate to one for these for their health.

@kellydalstok8900

3 жыл бұрын

@@nagualdesign I think it was Jo Brand who said it. She used to be a nurse.

A euphemistic acronym to note the patient's death: ART - assuming room temperature.

@numbereightyseven

3 жыл бұрын

Now that's dark. I hope I remember it.

@menachemsalomon

3 жыл бұрын

@@numbereightyseven It's not original. I saw it back in the '90s, as an expressions doctors had been asked not to use anymore, supposedly in real life.

I'm offended by Sandi's repeated exasperation with my indecisiveness.

@BumMcFluff

3 жыл бұрын

I'm offended that you're offended. How dare you?

@ryklatortuga4146

3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure?

@HammerDownUnder

3 жыл бұрын

I used to be indecisive but now I am not so sure

@barbarajoseph-adam8337

3 жыл бұрын

I’m offended that no one has issued a public apology for offending you!

@BumMcFluff

3 жыл бұрын

Furthermore, I'm offended that my being offended did not cause offense. I'm also getting dizzy.

Twitter is the medium Tweet is what you send Twit is what you show yourself to be

@tomaszskowronski1406

3 жыл бұрын

and a Twat is what you usually end up as.

I love these acronyms that sound official or serious but actually stand for hilariously mundane-yet-specific phrases, like the military acronyms SNAFU (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up) and FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition); the former entered common use, while the latter made into programming terminology.

@lordomacron3719

3 жыл бұрын

SSDD is a fav of mine Same Shit Different Day

@lemonferret

3 жыл бұрын

I long for the day I can use SNAFU in an actual conversation.

@lordomacron3719

3 жыл бұрын

@@lemonferret I use SSDD in my Daily life when ppl ask me how are things?

@KhronicD

3 жыл бұрын

PEBKAC is another one I quite like, having worked in a call center for a bit. Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

@elaineb7065

3 жыл бұрын

There's a club in Stirling, Scotland called the Fubar!!!

I worked in a doctor's office doing the filing, and overweight patients were described as "well-nourished" in their eval notes

@spelcheak

Жыл бұрын

I feel like “highly nourished” would be better but I’m no doctor.

I worked for an ambulance service and we had a few: CATS, cut all to shit, which is self explanatory. CCFCCP, cuckoo for cocoa puffs, for psych patients. Pharmaceutically gifted for those on certain chemical substances, the kind you're not likely to have a prescription for. And we were once told to stop referring to the hazmat crews as glow worms.

@gordonlawrence1448

3 жыл бұрын

Were you in the UK? If so did you get many RIG's? Random Item in Genitals. A friend used to work in A&E and his record was 3 people in 1 week that had all "sat on" light bulbs.

@shinget

3 жыл бұрын

i am going to try to use the phrase "pharmaceutically gifted" from now on.

@nagualdesign

3 жыл бұрын

Surely "cuckoo for cocoa puffs" should be CFCP.

A nurse once told me that a patient with two broken elbows was admitted as a victim of FDD...... fell down drunk 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and yes it was written on her patient check list.

@Kropikovo

3 жыл бұрын

She lied, drunk people never get hurt... :P

@lgerback34

3 жыл бұрын

I dated a doctor who told me a few good ones: PFO - Pissed, Fell Over and FLK - Funny Looking Kid. I can’t remember the rest. I DO remember all the mind games she played on me tho... Fun times.

@oscardog6719

3 жыл бұрын

lgerback34 yes I heard the PFO one from a paramedic who was talking about having to go on duty at schoolies week here in Australia. Love it!

@Theonevidz

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I swear to god this happened to me. Fell over and broke both elbows while drunk! Was it in the uk?

My wife is a nurse, and when a patient hasn't been able to have a bowel movement for a long time they use the acronym FOS

@triumphstagdriver

3 жыл бұрын

Some years ago I had to get a PET scan. The doctors asked when I had last crapped as they noted that it could be seen on the scan. Keeping things lighthearted despite the severity of my ailment, I merely said that people have often said I was full of shit....

I used to work as a nurse in a nursing home and we had a lot of cases of Morbus Meise. Morbus of course being the latin word for disease, Meise is the german name for a tit (the bird, not the body part). It references the german expression "einen Vogel haben" ("to have a bird"), meaning not being quite right in the head or imagining things. So "Morbus Meise" meant that someone was a hypochondriac.

literally my only complaint for the entire show is that some times people are very quiet when they are talking so i have to turn it up and then the audience laughs and then it becomes way to loud

Another acronym is DFO, Done Fell Over (unknown cause of death). There are also the O-sign ( a dead person having their mouth open) and the Q-sign (same thing with tongue hanging out). I am not a medical professional. I have also heard the the Spanish influenza probably started on the US, but Spain was the only country willing to admit it was seriously affected, because of WWI.

@anitadavidson1266

3 жыл бұрын

Alvin Belt Just recently learned of Spanish Flu and tru origins, and yes, I do believe it was first report in the US, but then hushed up world wide until they could point a finger at the only country to mention it daily in the newspapers and try to get the world to listen - yep, Spain! Talk about a bad wrap...

@kmlammto

3 жыл бұрын

Recent information says they do not accurately know where the 1918 flu originated, but it can be traced to military personnel from North America or, at least, passing through. First location is a Midwest US Army camp which spread to others as men were redeployed. The second is Chinese troops transitting Canada in closed boxcars due to prejudice in Canada at the time. Both groups arrived in Europe at about the same time and spread the disease to other military personnel. It is thought more men died from the flu than the actual war. However, all the allies agreed to suppress this information to not dishearten their citizens. This slowed the response to the flu until it spread to neutral Spain. Once acknowledged there, everyone could publicly react. Back here in the US, some idiots refused to follow medical advice that included masks, staying home and washing one’s hands. My aunt listened to the mayor of Philadelphia and attended a rally or parade he said would be safe. She like thousands of other caught the disease and died.

@AHBelt

3 жыл бұрын

@@kmlammto I had a grandpa who had it but survived/

@piyam5948

3 жыл бұрын

DFO is drunk, fell over You don't really need an acronym for sudden death the cardiac arrest record and coroner's referral does that

@gordonlawrence1448

3 жыл бұрын

@HaB22 It certainly spread like wildfire in the trenches. I read somewhere that WWI would have ground to a halt in another 8 or so months due to flu deaths. The only issue is that was patient zero in the trenches or was patient zero a new troop to the trenches. I'm not 100% convinced it started in the US. It had to start somewhere but given the time and the fact there was a war on I really don't think patient zero is trackable.

2:53 My heart skipped for a second there.

@jkl3937

3 жыл бұрын

COCK AND BALL TORTURE

@MyNameIs8Ball

3 жыл бұрын

from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

@Dan_G.R.S.

3 жыл бұрын

Cock and ball torture Dr. Freeman

There's one in Mansfield for when someone comes in with a really weird injury called NFM which means Normal For Mansfield

@decodolly1535

3 жыл бұрын

They've copied that from East Anglia. "Normal for Norfolk" is a more widely known expression.

@handlesarefeckinstupid

3 жыл бұрын

Having worked in Mansfield, I agree. The streets outside where I worked could be described as a zoo.

@richardlloyd2589

3 жыл бұрын

Used to work in a clean-room, and we nicknamed the other shift, “the Star Wars bar”.

@hughjarrse

3 жыл бұрын

@@decodolly1535 Stephen Fry mentioned Normal for Norfolk on QI

Best one I have is from the world of IT PICNIC Problem In Chair Not In Computer

@JustSomeCanuck

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard a variation of that: PEBCAK. Problem exists between chair and keyboard.

@adamstyles4699

3 жыл бұрын

i heard an IT technician before use the term ID 10 plus error... the person didn't understand and was told to write it down (ID10+).

@JimT.Pirate

3 жыл бұрын

How's about the RTFM error? Read The F'kin Manual.

@GGsorensen

3 жыл бұрын

We call it an Error40 in Danish. Means that the error was caused by something approx 40 cm away from the computer

@Statalyzer

3 жыл бұрын

Usually though, it's the chair of the designer of the software or the system.

I used to work in a radiology clinic, and a patient was referred for a gall bladder X-ray. Her referring doctor listed the provisional diagnosis as 4F Syndrome. I couldn’t find it in my medical dictionary and had to ask the doctor what it meant so I could process the insurance paperwork. He told me it stood for Fat, Female, Flatulent, and Forty.

@yippee8570

2 жыл бұрын

I heard it as fertile, not flatulent

While not an acronym, I was once at a meeting with some paramedics and firies who told me they had a 'Suzanne's Bag'. They used it at major accidents when they had to find parts of people. They'd have one bag for each person and call them Suzanne Bags, because "This goes with this, goes with this goes with that".

@rosiefay7283

2 жыл бұрын

I don't get it. Googling Suzanne Bags brings up references to handbags.

@rachelcookie321

Жыл бұрын

Is that a quote from something?

As usual, watch the video, then frantically pause it while reading the comments before Sandi makes me feel like I have to reevaluate my life decisions.

PFO Pissed and Fell Over (in Australia anyway)

@spiralpython1989

3 жыл бұрын

Mathew Hale yes, i have actually heard an ambo tell triage at a Melbourne hospital, ‘possible fractured (bone name) PFO, King st’.

@brianm6337

3 жыл бұрын

Gee- in AUS, wouldn't they PFRSU? Pissed and Fell Right Side Up

@jeffreysdavis

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not a real one since there's an actual heart condition with the common acronym PFO... Probably wouldn't want to cause such confusion

@oscardog6719

3 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Davis yes it’s a real one in Australia. Heard it from a paramedic.

@jeffreysdavis

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscardog6719 ahh I see, yeah there's sometimes different uses depending on prior to hospital or already admitted

The acronym that comes to my mind is RUD and stands for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. When anything supposed to go to space blows up! Marvelous!

@1969Kismet

3 жыл бұрын

I'll think of that one when I want an example of understatement ; )

The comments sections of the QI videos are just great. The only ones I read.

My favourite astronomy professor once told us a funny story. He met one of his students years after university, who said "Professor! I made very good use of astronomy." The professor was very curious how exactly that happened and asked for an explanation. The student had to do his compulsory military service, and officers all hated the ones coming from university. (e.g. While marching on a field, if they saw a heap of cow sh*t on their left side, they shouted 'Nuke from the right!' which meant a compulsory jump face down to the left.) This ex-student didn't like it, and just before the next 'training' he went to the doctor and said: "Doctor! I have anomalous angular momentum distribution!' The doctor looked at him in silence for a few seconds and said "Oh, that's bad!" and signed him off for three days.

@kusanagi-no-tachi5303

3 жыл бұрын

Well what does that mean? Angular whatchamacalllit

@zoltanposfai3451

3 жыл бұрын

@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303 Just a bodies moving in space have momentum (e.g. you car), rotating bodies have this rotational momentum called angular momentum. When you spin a ball, it rotates as a rigid body and the momentum is evenly distributed according to the geometry of a sphere. The Sun's surface rotates faster at the equator (about 24days/rotation) than the polar region (about 35days/rotation). The Sun is of course not a rigid body, but the mechanics of spinning fluids would actually result in an opposite difference (conservation of angular momentum, but I don't want to get too technical here). This is why astronomers say that the Sun has an anomalous angular momentum distribution. Which of course is not an illness but "sounds bad" if you have it. The student was not sure whether the doctor got the joke or was suddenly unsure what it was, but he did not push and potentially reveal his lucky trick. Instead he told the professor of the practical worth of his astronomy studies.

@DavidLee-vi8ds

3 жыл бұрын

@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303 He feels a bit dizzy when he spins.

During covid... when u say WHO we think of world health organisation haha

I'm surprised humorous gene names like swiss cheese and cheap date didn't come up. Can you imagine explaining to a distraught mother that her child's cancer is due to a mutation in the sonic hedgehog gene, and you recommended an experimental treatment with robotnikinin?

@rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven

2 жыл бұрын

Wikipedia has a bit on this. "The problem of the "inappropriateness" of the names of genes such as "Mothers against decapentaplegia", "Lunatic fringe", and "Sonic hedgehog" is largely avoided by using standardized abbreviations when speaking with patients and their families."

A doctor told me I have whitecoat tachycardia. I think that's a great name for a relatively innocuous thing. My heart rate and blood pressure goes up in the presence of doctors.

@alexandercanella4479

3 жыл бұрын

That makes sense. It's kind of like, doctor dick. For some reason, our dicks shrivel up when we have to drop our pants around doctors like we just got out of cold water.

@lancer525

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandercanella4479 My urologist refers to that as PIPR. Physician Induced Penile Retraction...

@ValeriePallaoro

2 жыл бұрын

@@lancer525 your blood pressure goes up, cause your weiner is shrunk due to embarrasment? Original is talking about a recognised problem when having your blood pressure taken. If they think it exists they wait a bit and then take your BP when you have calmed down. Sometimes you have to do breathing exercises. Lots of people have been diagnosed with High BP inaccurately when Drs don't take this into account.

No comments about CBT?

@lepidotos

3 жыл бұрын

strange

Well, I'm afraid you've got SBI... -But... how long do I have to live? Ten. -Ten what? Nine Eight ...

@TheMultiGamerOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

SVBI*

One of my favourites is an IT acronym: PEBCAK. "Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard"

As someone who suffers from ODD (Offense Deficit Disorder), I can't help but feel I've been unfairly excluded by this video.

In some TV series the doctors gave a hysteric patient a medicine called Obecalp, which is "placebo" reversed.

Cariad Lloyd is just perfect ...

Fun fact, the first case of the “Spanish Flu” strain of infulenza was actually recorded in Kansas

Getting strong Disneyland "Treasured Guest" vibes

On the topic of things having unnecessarily frightening names: Exploding head syndrome is a very violent-sounding name for a harmless syndrome (unless it's extreme to the point where you miss hours of sleep) in which the affected is woken up during the night by a perceived loud noise which never actually happened.

@rachelcookie321

Жыл бұрын

That happens to me frequently. Funnily enough, I usually sleep through real loud noises but I get woken up by ones from my dreams.

Just off to request access to my medical notes...🥴

Love that Phil is representing City Lights in San Francisco! I bet he had a great time there.

When I was in law enforcement 20+ years ago, a common acronym was DRT. "Dead Right There". By the way, I'm not offended by words. People shooting at me is an entirely different matter though.

My favourite medical acronym is one from Stephen's tenure, which was NFN - Normal For Norfolk.

Old computer repair term PEBKAS Error Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Seat

@oenrn

3 жыл бұрын

It's like the mechanic who said the problem with the car was "a loose nut holding the steering wheel."

@malcolmmarshall4371

3 жыл бұрын

Had the and BDS( blue death screen)

That @3Bears genuinely caused me to cackle xD

You cant name a disease sudden-death syndrome. SIDS: allow me to introduce myself.

@keithmills778

5 ай бұрын

The comedian Steven Wright once pointed out that every death is sudden. You're alive, you're alive, you're alive, you're dead.

One that medical professionals were actually told to stop using was NFN, Normal For Norfolk which was used to describe issues likely to be from inbreeding originally but just became something generally derogatory. Having worked with medical data some of which was about the impact of inbreeding, I understand the need to have this flagged, but apparently without evidence they are now not even allowed to suggest it's an issue. One brother and sister who were children of cousins, and being encouraged to marry, I really wish I was making this up, had so many health issues medical staff were trying to intervene and see them together as much as possible to explain what had gone on. The parents saw no issue, despite their own medical problems, likely again from inbreeding in their lineage and had threatened to sue the medics for interfering in the intended match, even though this would never be deemed legal in the UK. I was weapons grade stupid in my youth but more approachable and realistic to medics who saved me a few times from dying due to risks I took in the name of competitive dangerous sports. One prognosis I will always remember was a doctor telling me my body hadn't figured out how to die, and that I needed to be more careful before it caught on. This was after requesting and being granted permission to be wheeled to the start of an event in a chair so that I was there and wouldn't lose all of my points by failing to start too many. I don't know what the acronym was, but it shouldn't have been polite.

@clockworkkirlia7475

2 жыл бұрын

"weapons grade stupid" is so evocative. Great comment, really interesting!

A good friend was conscious but going downhill very fast and heard one of the medical staff say "we're losing the sun"... Not a very good code if you ask me. For the record, he made a full recovery, but knew exactly what they meant, and I'm sure you do too ;-)

We Dutch do that differently: we offend people with diseases. We use names of diseases as swearwords.

@brianm6337

3 жыл бұрын

Insults from the Dutch come from their tulips. :D * * * * "2 lips".. bwahahaha. *Sees hat hurled at me*

@gwishart

3 жыл бұрын

That happens in English too, a lot of insults are medical terms. For example: Moron, Cretin, Imbecile, Idiot are actually medical terms for people with IQs in specific ranges.

@tamfuwing1

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwishart Better use past tense before you trigger someone. Were medical terms ...

Almost spit my food out at the "at three bears" comment.

I remember Michael Crichton years ago telling about one that doctors would share amongst themselves, FLK; Funny Looking Kid.

Ebola is one of those names - it's a tributary of the Congo. In 1976, the doctor who named the disease (rightfully) decided NOT to name it after the town it was discovered in (Yambuku), for fear that the people living there would somehow be punished for it. Instead, he named it after the river, which was 70 miles away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_River

There's also CTD - "circling the drain," and DRT - "dead right there," at the scene of an accident. (Loved the "patient told to eff off one. Tee hee!) Oh yeah, and some of us suffer from CRS - "can't remember sh-t."

Apparently a doctor wrote "PBBB" on a patient's chart, meaning "Pine Box By Bedside". The family saw the acronym and actually knew what it meant, and sued the doctor (What? How did you guess it was in America?!). Probably an apocryphal story, but I was told it in Nursing School.

@alexandercanella4479

3 жыл бұрын

You're right. Probably bullshit. Also, I've only heard another version of this before, it was PBAB. Pine Box At Bedside.

@alfnoakes392

7 ай бұрын

Worked with someone who had been in at a consultation when the mother of child patient saw the FLK on her offspring's file and knew that it meant Funny Looking Kid. She was not happy.

I work in IT and we use PICNIC - Problem in chair not in computer ;)

@lqtmn

3 жыл бұрын

We refer to a PEBCAK error here--problem exists between keyboard and chair.

In vet med instead of SBI we have ADR which stands for "Ain't doin right" lol

my favorite medical acronym TMB, to many birthdays.

A common acronym in the veterinary field is ADR, "Ain't Doing Right." It almost always ends up meaning a vaguely less energetic animal maybe eating less than usual.

PRATFO.... that’s a keeper.

my mum used to work in the ER and they would use the acronym DFO or 'drunk and fallen over'

CTD: Circling the drain

There's a disease in Japan that was named after me. True story. Not what you expect to learn when googling your name during 10th grade study hall.

@Hiperruimteindustriee

2 жыл бұрын

I have the same name as a crater on the moon, I won't say my real name, but the crater is near Beer crater and I am not old enough to drink. I found it on Google Moon (like Google earth, but for its moon.)

@rachelcookie321

Жыл бұрын

Well, you got to tell us what the disease is now.

The Cambridge University Netball Team decided not to adopt an acronym.

@allenjenkins7947

3 жыл бұрын

In Australia, we have the Swan Hill Irrigation Trust, also Swan Hill Institute of Technology and the Northern Territory tourism campaign "CU in the NT".

In the performing arts we use the term Goomar. “I had a total Goomar in today.” [Get Out Of My Audition Room.]

I do get a chuckle out of NFN - Normal for Norfolk

Lovely

WNYC's On the Media has an incredible episode about the 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic and how it may have even played a part in triggering WWll because the American president was afflicted while at the peace negotiations which led in part to Germany getting such a raw deal

A really morbid one told to me by a paramedic was FORD - found on road dead. For hit and runs when a police officer talking to loved ones might have their radio on he told me. Another was a 'coastguard duty' or DTS for danger to shipping, both for the obese patients.

Another old medical notation for someone who wasn't especially bright was NFN, normal for Norfolk. Webbed feet or hands was SB, Sheppy Baby.

"Chronic Biscuit Toxicity". And here I thought CBT stood for something else.

@moogthedog2816

3 жыл бұрын

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, of course. What else could it be...?

@SteviePonder123

3 жыл бұрын

Can't be transgen- NOPE

@The_Jzoli

3 жыл бұрын

CBT from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at en dot wikipedia dot org.

@handlesarefeckinstupid

3 жыл бұрын

Compulsory Basic Training, for motorbikes in the UK. 😂

@stephensun611

3 жыл бұрын

Cock and ball torture (CBT) is a sexual activity involving application of pain or constriction to the male genitals. This may involve directly painful activities, such as wax play, genital spanking, squeezing, ball-busting, genital flogging, urethral play, tickle torture, erotic electrostimulation or even kicking.[1] The recipient of such activities may receive direct physical pleasure via masochism, or emotional pleasure through erotic humiliation, or knowledge that the play is pleasing to a sadistic dominant. Many of these practices carry significant health risks.

MERS may be the final disease named for a geographic region. Spanish Flu was so named because Spain could take the political bullet for the USA, where it originated. Most thusly named diseases are misnomers, such as "The French Disease" (aka "The Spanish Diesease") which also came out of North America 250 years before the USA existed.

@Maerahn

3 жыл бұрын

I'd quite like Donald trump and his administration to see this comment. Except he'd probably be too dumb to understand it anyway.

I've actually seen GOMER (Get Out of My ER) charted... And "Two Dudes Syndrome." I was standing there, minding my own business and these Two Dudes came up and kicked my tookus...

sorta similar to IT, with the PIBKAC. "Problem is between keyboard and chair"

Haha, I suffer from SADS (sudden adult death syndrome) and have an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) - "defib" in my chest. I find this hilarious. :)

@alexandercanella4479

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Arrhythmia

For computer problems we have: PEBCAK - Problem exists between chair and keyboard

My favorite medical acronym is SOB, which stands for shortness of breath not what you would think! I was working as a secretary on a medical unit and overheard one nurse telling another. “ He was a little SOB overnight.” I later told her he’s always a little SOB. She laughed and then explained to me that it stands for short of breath..

Abbreviations used by nurses include MFC for a patient who won't live long - measure for coffin.

Phil knew what cbt really stands for

Another good one, from A and E Doctors on a saturday night, is PAFO. Pissed And Fell Over.

So how old is this clip? If anything it proves that the "I take offense" disease has been among us for quite a while.

Do you tweet? Such a sweet and innocent time that was.

all the more relevant nowadays! at my place of work, we ended up with quite a bit of confusion wrt. internal- and external-facing documents and interfaces cause this exact thing happened with the 'rona. it was no longer ok to say "new uk" or "brazil variant" etc cause they associated places in the world with diseases, so the new naming scheme of just doing the greek letters meant that the delta variant - the rona variant that was discovered first in i think india? - got confused with the local "delta-pcr" test - which is a much faster alternative to whole genome sequencing for finding out which variant a covid sample is, *_as long as it's already a known variant being tested for._*

Big up to sandi for being hip and down with kids

Sounds like most of these acronyms fall under MSU (Making Shit Up), which also leads to DHTP (De-Humanising The Person).

@annmitchell4663

3 жыл бұрын

One of the old common ones was FFFF...female,fertile,fat,fourty.

I was expecting something to do with the Abbot and Costello routine.

My fave acronym is TLA: Three Letter Actonym

ADR: ain’t doin’ right. Used in our vet practice for patients that just aren’t themselves for some unknown reason

well, Legionnaires disease actually effected Legionaries they started it with stagnate water in the a/c units

Patient Reassured And Told To ... That was me ... Turned out those "lumps" on my tongue were taste buds. 😜

Written on a child's notes VGLM very good looking mother

I've heard of NFN - Normal For Norfolk.

"So you're offended, so fucking what?" - Stephen Fry

My buddy that works emergency medicine has FDGB - fall down go boom

There is a reason why Dr.'s don't want patients to see their notes _ they'll discover how much contempt is held for The patient.

@redelfshotthefood8213

3 жыл бұрын

I would think malpractice lawsuits are the overarching reason for doctor’s to hide notes. Also, at least in Canada, your medical records are the doctor’s property. You can ask they be sent to your next regular doctor, but you can’t get them yourself.

@thetowerstillstands

3 жыл бұрын

@@redelfshotthefood8213 Yes. Also Canadian. I have still had to go to the College of Physicians and Surgeons to get one to release my file to me. He said he would give it to my next Dr. but not me. Within a week, the College called him & reminded him that he didn't have that choice. Since then, I have kept my own file.

SEP. Someone else's problem. Nurse: DOA (date of admission) Doctor: DOA (dead on arrival)

So is the name Ebola offensive given that it's named after where it came from?

Med students I knew spoke about CTD (circling the drain) and UBE (unnecessary breast examination)...

@nathanglover8437

2 жыл бұрын

@@capturedflame absolutely spot-on.