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.’"

during a lecture on the menstrual cycle and PMS my professor made this joke...

"does anyone know the difference between a women with PMS and a terrorist?

well,you can actually negotiate with the terrorist..."

On a side note, I wonder if its good or bad that I am getting back into my routine of taking an hour nap each day in the later afternoon. I cant fall asleep at night so I only get about 6 hours of sleep and then by the time i get home from school i am exhausted so i nap but then I cant fall asleep early enough to get enough rest before heading to school at 8 or 9am the next day....its a vicious cycle!

"I knew women were complicated....but learning about the endless pathology associated with their reproductive tract made realize how complicated they really are."
-Nolan

"When your pen runs out of ink, what should you be thinking about?

a) FMMSL
b) I need a new pen
c) bed time
d) where's the gin
e) four of the above"
-Sam

**FMMSL=Fck My Med School Life

Food for thought...

A human egg [oocyte with the surrounding supportive cells, together called a follicle] is the size of a dot a very sharp pencil would make on paper. In contrast, an ostrich egg is the largest and weighs up to 3.5pounds. [and yes, we are talking about the same kind of egg you eat for breakfast...]


“Menstruation are the bloody tears of a disappointed uterus” --an old saying taught in medical school

“The number of oocytes is highest before birth, around 6-7million, lots and lots of eggs, how many at birth? turns into 2 million. How many at puberty? turns into 400,000-500,000, how many of those will ovulate? 400-500. Thus, the overwhelming odds of the fate of an egg is to NOT ovulate. We are all examples of a special egg that has ovulated. Thats how special we all are. And it even gets more impressive when you think about spermatozoa. There are 35-40 million spermatozoa in a single ejaculate, and the odds of one of those spermatozoa meeting up with an egg is astronomically small. So its a way of thinking about how special we really are. We should take the rest of the day off we are all just that special....”
-Dr.G