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Jackie thanks for alerting me to that article. It is a good thing that doctors are now expected to be more respectful of their patients, or at least avoid expressing their contempt. This line caught my eye:
DBI refers to "Dirt Bag Index", and multiplies the number of tattoos with the number of missing teeth to give an estimate of the number of days since the patient last bathed.
I had a professor who was a big fan of Moby Dick, and often referenced it in the wards to hilarious effect. His version of the "DBI" was the Queequeg Award, which was for the patient with the highest tattoo-to-tooth ratio. Of course, this often could not be assessed if a patient were completely edentulous, in which case having a single tattoo would make their T-T ratio infinity.
One of the most inappropriate (and therefore one of the funniest) expressions I have heard is the "Emmerson-Biggins sign," sometimes described by radiologists reviewing a woman's chest X-ray. I have also heard radiologists describe a belly-button piercing as a "P.I.D. marker."
While not exactly chock full of doctor's slang, a highly entertaining novel full of this type of humor in general is The House of God, by Samuel Shem. Think Catch-22 meets M*A*S*H.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Another Endangered Language latishya 09/24/08 12:08 AM Re: Another Endangered Language Jackie 09/24/08 02:09 AM Re: Another Endangered Language twosleepy 09/24/08 03:01 AM Re: Another Endangered Language Jackie 09/24/08 03:10 AM Re: Another Endangered Language tsuwm 09/24/08 03:37 AM Re: Another Endangered Language The Pook 09/24/08 04:08 AM Re: Another Endangered Language morphememedley 09/24/08 04:44 AM Re: Another Endangered Language Alex Williams 10/01/08 04:51 PM
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