Do doctors like to mispronounce words?

SDN Members don't see this ad. (About Ads)

Originally Posted by SpecterGT260

Hush now. Bed time

For you...its early here. I don't have OR cases until noon anyway, so I can stay up as late as I want!

You in the Texas area? I spent just shy of 3 hours on one of your lovely tarmacs waiting to get de iced. While we waited the ice melted anyways and they still de iced us .

No, my dad lives in Dallas and his FB pictures from today show only a little bit of snow which was melting. I'm in AZ.
<---------- see my location under my Avatar?

Luckily Tampa airport has a built in hotel. Long freaking day. I want a Mulligan on Christmas

I hear ya.

Sometimes holidays need a do over. Sorry you had a bad day trying to get home.

Originally Posted by SpecterGT260

http://www.favething.com/uploads/ima...eb_funny-1.jpg

I thought that applied more to chat rooms.

Most people here assume I'm male because I'm a surgeon.

I am only aware of your activity in here when you tell us underlings to keep it in line but fair enough

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Good. Keep it in line underlings!!

I suppose I'll give you a break since you've been here less than one year Newbs.

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

I thought that applied more to chat rooms.

Most people here assume I'm male because I'm a surgeon.



Good. Keep it in line underlings!!

I suppose I'll give you a break since you've been here less than one year Newbs.

I also didn't know you are a surgeon



Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

For you...its early here. I don't have OR cases until noon anyway, so I can stay up as late as I want!




No, my dad lives in Dallas and his FB pictures from today show only a little bit of snow which was melting. I'm in AZ.
<---------- see my location under my Avatar?



I hear ya.

Sometimes holidays need a do over. Sorry you had a bad day trying to get home.

I am on mobile so I have to click extra stuff to see that. Phoenix is next on the itinerary. If we get another Mayan curse snowpocalypse in 6 days I will lose it

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

Good idea. I haven't banned someone in a very long time. Good for him I'm on call and not feeling drunk with SDN power and bourbon.



"Law of the internet" = posters are assumed to be male until otherwise proven? Interesting.

Interesting especially since my profile has my picture, my gender, I am listed as "Cougariffic", my sig file has my real name and I frequently talk about shoes, glitter and other such girl type stuff. Oh and then there's the fact that most people here know who I am. I am almost affronted that you have not spend such time figuring this out.

You Mr. Specter will be a horrible Doctor because of your lack of attention to small details.

Seriously, 6K SDN posts and thinks WS is a man?

Burnett's law has been invoked for this faux pas, better watch out!


Dilatation is a very common word in medicine, FWIW. Especially in surgery, GI and radiology fields (among others).

OK. I have sufficiently creeped on you now. Surgeon, lots of cities, no Y, hates twitter. I shan't make such a mistake again. (That was a-gain, not a-ghen. Hail to the queen. Cheerios and such)

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

2 female surgeons! My oh my.

Originally Posted by Smurfette

Seriously, 6K SDN posts and thinks WS is a man?

Burnett's law has been invoked for this faux pas, better watch out!


Dilatation is a very common word in medicine, FWIW. Especially in surgery, GI and radiology fields (among others).

And I even hesitated with the generalization before posting and then went for it anyways

Faux pas? Speaking of pronunciations. This is how my brothers and I entertained ourselves while stuck in oil country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZVBT...e_gdata_player



Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Originally Posted by SpecterGT260

And I even hesitated with the generalization before posting and then went for it anyways

Smurfette is a female surgeon as well, FWIW. You'd be better off around here assuming female.

Faux pas? Speaking of pronunciations. This is how my brothers and I entertained ourselves while stuck in oil country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZVBT...e_gdata_player



Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

My brother and I used to say, "fox paws" as it drove our French teacher insane.

Cheerio and all that sort of rot.

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

Smurfette is a female surgeon as well, FWIW. You'd be better off around here assuming female.



My brother and I used to say, "fox paws" as it drove our French teacher insane.

Cheerio and all that sort of rot.

Ok ok ok. But I'm citing you as soon as that bites me in the butt. Where is Ms. Prowler by the way?

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Originally Posted by SpecterGT260

Ok ok ok. But I'm citing you as soon as that bites me in the butt. Where is Ms. Prowler by the way?

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Uh yeah...HE is one for whom the Internet Rulz work. Hopefully he's not on call and is spending holiday time with the wife and kids.

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

Good idea. I haven't banned someone in a very long time. Good for him I'm on call and not feeling drunk with SDN power and bourbon.



"Law of the internet" = posters are assumed to be male until otherwise proven? Interesting.

Interesting especially since my profile has my picture, my gender, I am listed as "Cougariffic", my sig file has my real name and I frequently talk about shoes, glitter and other such girl type stuff. Oh and then there's the fact that most people here know who I am. I am almost affronted that you have not spend such time figuring this out.

You Mr. Specter will be a horrible Doctor because of your lack of attention to small details.

A mod/admin droppin' Burnett's Law on a poster? Isn't that like dividing by zero?

Originally Posted by SpecterGT260

Ok ok ok. But I'm citing you as soon as that bites me in the butt. Where is Ms. Prowler by the way?

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You called me a girl. Prepare to die.

Originally Posted by TheProwler

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You called me a girl. Prepare to die.

That's polydactyly-ist!

Originally Posted by TheProwler

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You called me a girl. Prepare to die.

Do you have Netflix? There is a documentary from about 08 called "the moment of death" (or something) and a doctor in there literally uses Billy Crystals "mostly dead" line. It was awesome

Sent from my DROID RAZR using SDN Mobile

Originally Posted by MiracleforMD

One word. Dilatation.

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

Again, not a mispronunciation but an acceptable alternative (and yes, from the Queen's English).

Dilatation is the original word, first seen in Chaucer and is from the Latin noun dilitatio (the verb: dilatare). The OED sticks with dilatation as the preferred form, but in practice either are acceptable.

Oh you are definitely right as usual. But you and I both know that some physicians use dilatation to purposely exude what they think is superiority, but smells more like douche to me.

Originally Posted by MiracleforMD

Oh you are definitely right as usual. But you and I both know that some physicians use dilatation to purposely exude what they think is superiority, but smells more like douche to me.

Perhaps. There will always be people like that, in every profession. But I am more concerned about real mispronunciations by educated people.

That, and poor table manners. Is teaching this in the home out of fashion? Over the last three weeks I have seen more than my share of people holding their forks in the manner of a two-year-old or talking with their mouths full. Forks are not supposed to be grabbed in the fist as if they're a shiv and you're ready for a cellblock C assault.

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

Perhaps. There will always be people like that, in every profession. But I am more concerned about real mispronunciations by educated people.

True. Sometimes I feel like people pretend the % of *******s in medicine is somehow inexplicably unequal (less) to the % in the general population. To be honest when I hear a pronunciation that sounds foreign to me, I never know if it is an alternate form or true MISpronunciation.

Originally Posted by Winged Scapula

That, and poor table manners. Is teaching this in the home out of fashion? Over the last three weeks I have seen more than my share of people holding their forks in the manner of a two-year-old or talking with their mouths full. Forks are not supposed to be grabbed in the fist as if they're a shiv and you're ready for a cellblock C assault.

Lol.

Originally Posted by MiracleforMD

True. Sometimes I feel like people pretend the % of *******s in medicine is somehow inexplicably unequal (less) to the % in the general population. To be honest when I hear a pronunciation that sounds foreign to me, I never know if it is an alternate form or true pronunciation.

Oh no, there are just as many, if not more *******s in medicine, as in the general public. Tje bottom line is: if you are secure in yourself and who you are, you don't need to make other people feel bad.