This is from another blog on the internet i found. It applies because of #1-- for some reason our professors say SONTI-meter instead of CENTI-meter and it it the most mind-boggling and irritating thing i have ever heard. At first I thought it was just one doctor but then other ones that say it the same way kept coming out of the woodwork!! ahhhhh

I kept the other ones in just cause they are pretty funny...

"Top 5 Most Annoying Medical Terms
Day to day life in the hospital can be frustrating for so many reasons: tests don’t get done, patients won’t go home, interns won’t stop crying, etc, etc. These are all predictable and acceptable obstacles that go along with being a housestaffer. However, there are certain unacceptable annoyances that should not, and cannot, be tolerated. Signing out IV placements/rectals/NGTs to the covering resident. Clinic patients who come an hour late. And, doctors who “fancify” commonplace medical terms for unknown reasons, or, use silly medi-slang. Share your own with us and we’ll add them to the list.

1. “Sontimeter”- (aka centimeter) Hated for both its pretentious nature and the frequency with which we hear it, this term remains a mystery to all housestaff below the age of 35. Were all of these docs schooled in Old England? Well, throw another shrimp on the barbie, ’cause we’re not taking it any more! The word is CENT-i-meter. Like, red cent. Not like idiot-savANT.

2. “Labs are cooking”- What? If one phrase can get me to freak out, it’s this one. Why can’t you just say ‘pending’ or ‘not done yet’? Let’s get this straight- it’s not cooler or funnier to say ‘cooking’- it’s just dorkier. And G-d help the medical student that whips out this phrase; before you know it they’ll be telling their MS3 buddies how they were “droppin’ NGs” and “throwin in lines.” Stop them before it’s too late. Please.

3. Deh-breed-mahn(dbrd-mä) - aka: debridement. Commonly used by older surgical attendings and their tortured residents, who want to glorify the very unglamorous task of removing dead tissue from a sacral decub, by adding a french accent. For example: “My PGY2 attempted the de-breed-mahn of the stage IV decub, but had to stop midway through when the patient crapped all over it.” If they want to make the procedure seem more special, they should take the patients to their service.

4. “Goombah”- (Also see: “ditzel,” “fascinoma”)- Slangy terms that are used to describe an unidentified lesion on an imaging study. When I think of these words, I think of a 45 year old radiology attending who loves to be the guy that reads the films with the floor teams. He’s got, like, 8 canned jokes that he tells every time, 3 of which are somewhat inapproprite. Is there any reason to call a mass or lesion anything else but that? Trying to spice up a CXR report with slang is like calling cancer the “Big C.” It is just unnecessary.

5. “Thank you, doctor.” - Let me clarify before you freak out. This phrase is excellent and gratifying 50% of the time when uttered by a patient or a patient’s family member. Unfortunately the other 50% of the time it’s used by patronizing nurses; and in that case, ‘thank you, doctor’ really means ‘F you, doctor;’ or, ‘I told you so,’ or even, ‘Have a good 10 minutes of sleep, before I page you again, doctor.’"