The Resource The secret language of doctors : cracking the code of hospital culture, Dr. Brian Goldman
The secret language of doctors : cracking the code of hospital culture, Dr. Brian Goldman
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- 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."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 351 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781629370927
- Label
- The secret language of doctors : cracking the code of hospital culture
- Title
- The secret language of doctors
- Title remainder
- cracking the code of hospital culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Dr. Brian Goldman
- Language
- eng
- 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."--
- Assigning source
- Publisher's web site
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Goldman, Brian
- Dewey number
- 610.1/4
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- R123
- LC item number
- .G653 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Medicine
- Communication in medicine
- Physician and patient
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The secret language of doctors : cracking the code of hospital culture, Dr. Brian Goldman
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9781629370927
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn892432472
- (Sirsi) o892432472
- (OCoLC)892432472
- Label
- The secret language of doctors : cracking the code of hospital culture, Dr. Brian Goldman
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9781629370927
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn892432472
- (Sirsi) o892432472
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