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The Secret Language of Doctors|Brian Goldman

The Secret Language of Doctors : Cracking the Code of Hospital Culture

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Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781629370927
  • ISBN-10: 1629370924
  • Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
  • Publish Date: April 2015
  • Dimensions: 8.79 x 6.54 x 0.73 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.08 pounds
  • Page Count: 368

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