Funny Names (Seriously!)

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I used to work in Silicon Valley with a Vietnamese guy named Long Dhong, and Dr. Sunshine used to run Stanford's NICU.
 
Today, I saw someone wearing the badge "Uranus I. Peirce"

My brother claims he flew jump seat with Captain Crash (bro's an airline pilot) but he never could provide visual proof.

I couldn't make this stuff up.
 
I've got one for ya. Part of the Psych Dept. at my Med School.

Sex Therapist: William Finger Ph.D. or as we like to call him Willie Finger:wow:
 
Hello,

I'm a psychologist who usually hangs out in my own forum but likes to pop in here to browse these occasionally.

There was a professor at my school named Dr. Nurse.

A colleague and I had a good laugh over a paper written by a Dr. Doctor.

And a friend of mine, a tattooer who used to work in Alabama, SWEARS that he a fellow tattooer convinced a patron to name her baby Sh*thead (shih-theed) and not too long after, an L&D nurse from the nearby hospital came in to get tattooed and told them about "some lady named her baby Sh*thead."
 
Peds patient whose first name was Messiah.

That little guy has some big shoes to fill.
 
Good advice:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A617366

True story...

Actually got in trouble... was in the ER the other day and saw a lady whose last name was "Cucci"... Was with a med student and I asked him what patients he was following... Since I was overseeing his work, I was like:

"So, who do you have left to see?" as he was looking at the computer screen with all the names of the patients in the department.

As he was running down his list of patients, he was reading the names off, and said:

"Well, I've seen this Jones guy and this Wilson guy, but we still have to see this Cucci lady"

And there were two female nurses who were there and they actually got REALLY offended... one said "You know, that's REALLY INAPPROPRIATE!" and stormed off...

Had to do alot of apologizing later. He swore he had no idea what he was saying at the time.

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/cucci-coat-arms.htm

ttac
 
Miami_med said:
His group is Dr. Harry Pepe and Associates (Yes, I know that is worse).
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Heres them pics 😀

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My boyfriend, a peds resident, had a patient named Jesus. It wasn't a Hispanic kiddo who pronounced it Hay-soos, but this was a little white boy named Jesus. Makes you wonder who the daddy is. 😛
 
I hope that we all saw and appreciated the child named ESPN Montana.

That's write, dad named him after a sports network. That'll teach mom to ever let dad think up baby names at the bar with the guys after work. Pure Brilliance!

By the way, it's pronounced "Espin"

Scariest part of the whole story, the parents said "We found out that there are actually several other ESPN's. We're not the first"
 
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My father had a vasectomy by a "Dr. Stop"...and went to a urologist named "Dr. Wee"

(for the life of me I can't remember how these are spelled, so I wrote them how they are pronouced)
 
Sweet Tea said:
My boyfriend, a peds resident, had a patient named Jesus. It wasn't a Hispanic kiddo who pronounced it Hay-soos, but this was a little white boy named Jesus. Makes you wonder who the daddy is. 😛
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I was just talking about that last night with a bunch of graduate students (liberal arts/English/history): why do the Hispanic folks get the monopoly (well, until now) on naming their kids "Jesus"? But, then, I said that "Jesus" is the Aramaic of "Joshua", so, oh well.
 
we have two local medics who are brothers, adam and peter ness.
their name tags:
A. NESS
P. NESS
not kidding.....
 
I woked with a Dr Pepper..
 
For several years my wife worked as an admissions analyst at a university in Ohio. She encountered so many funny and bizarre names that she started making a list of them. One of the funniest stories, though, had to do with the portion of an application where the applicant could voluntarily write a brief summary of his or her interests and goals. One applicant wrote:

"When I finish my undergraduate work I hope to enter pre-med and eventually become a Pedestrian."

We're thinking she probably attained her goal.
 
Just found this thread, thanks to RobKay. Here goes...

I also worked with a "Dr. Pepper" a couple years ago (Ortho resident).

8 year old seen in the ED... "Atheist"

Gynecologist - "Dick Pees, MD"

One of the docs for the recent "smallest infant ever..." in Florida - "Phuket" (first name)

That's all for now... 😀
 
Granted I don't work in an ER, but I do work in a special ed high school for kids with emotional and behavoiral problems. They're the gang bangers that go to your friendly ER's, and a part of thier probation is they must go to our school. We have our fair share of strange names.

This first one, the names aren't funny on their own, but a set of the most identical twins you've ever seen: Antony and Antonio.

We also have a student named Outlaw. That one cracks me up because he's been locked up more times than he can remember. Talk about living up to your name.

But my favorite is a set of twins we had last year. Now, I'm not sure how exactly they spelled their names because they weren't my students, so I'll spell it phonetically. Hose-A (Spanish name Jose) and his twin brother Hose-B. I am not making this up, I didn't believe it at first until I saw their names on the exams and rosters. Talk about creativity.
 
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I do not pretend to be anonymous here on SDN so I will tell you my personal story.

My full name is Chris Reavill. My last name is pronounced RE-vil. I never thought anything of this going into medicine. It wasn't until I was a MS3 and my Filipino intern introduced me to a patient as Dr. that I realized my curse. He rolled the R from Doctor into my last name. I became DOC-tor E-vil. Since then it became a huge joke, but I kind of like it. At least 2-3 times per shift I greet a patient and they give me this wide eyed look. I then have to say "My name is Dr. Reavill, it is like Dr. Evil, but with an extra R". Radio dispatches where they need a name are kind of funny too.

This is also why my screen name is Dr.Evil. It isn't because I like Austin Powers.
 
The physicians I have worked with over the last few months have been quite memorable.

Thoracic surgery with Dr. Doolittle

Urology with Dr. Wood

and last but not least:

Surgical Gynecology with Dr. Yeast (*pronounced correctly as "Yeah-st" :laugh: 🙄 )
 
Of course, there is the classic "Dr. Pain" or "Dr. Payne" I know of MDs with both spellings.

And then there is my friend from college who went into anesthesiology - Dr. Au. Pronounced like 'Ow'.

Heh. Check out her blog at theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com. She's funny.
 
Seen in the Peds ED... Liljames.
And yep, daddy's name was James.
 
Saw Dr Schidt (pronounced, I kid you not, Shi*) on winter break. Dude, if my name sounded like shi*, I'd tell people it was pronounced "shhh id" or something.

I mean, can you imagine being paged in the hospital? "Dr Shi* to ________ STAT" "Dr Shi* please call 2100" etc
 
emedpa said:
we have two local medics who are brothers, adam and peter ness.
their name tags:
A. NESS
P. NESS
not kidding.....
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One of my classmates's last name is Min. He goes by his middle name all the time, which is fine, but when we had our name tags made for the clinical years the administration for some reason said he couldn't use his middle name on his name tag and had to either use his first name or his first initial. So his nametag says: C. Min.

Poor guy.
 
I brought a very pregnant lady into the ED a couple of months ago. During the ride I asked her what she was gonna name the kid, and she said she wasn't sure, but wanted to do something in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. She spent like 20 min in the ED putting off the delivery until she came up with a name. Finally, the OBs told her she HAD to go to L&D, name or no name. I heard the next day that as she was being wheeled into L&D she said "I got it". Her kid's name: Nosmo King ____.
Poor kid, but funny story.
 
I have seen the lemonjello and orangello. Peds clinic lists are the best for it. I thoughti t was a joke until I was telling the story to someone and they new who it was! They said that they new the woman and she just really like jello.

Female was not uncommon, but it had a social issue: many of them were non-english speaking immigrants who didn't realize that indeed, the doctors in fact weren't naming thier child.

also, ESPN (es-pen)

penix (that's pen-eh, its FRENCH!)
 
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I know a pediatrician named Dr. Smiley. Not particularly funny, but cute nonetheless.

My grandmother who taught 1st grade had a foreign-born student, name pronounced "can-a-poo". If I remember correctly she tried to convince the parents they should change her name.

I also had a teacher Mrs. Dick...when her husband died, his obituary revealed his name...Harry.
 
Emergency Medicine so TOTALLY OWNS the humorous threads here at SDN. I've told this story once before, but what the heck. It still makes me smile.

The Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine is all about a holistic, team oriented approach to patient care. On our internal medicine rotations, we included student pharmacists, nurses, and other professionals on the wards. Early one morning, we were rounding on patients in the hospital's progressive care unit. The teams had recently been reorganized, and several members hadn't been introduced. I could barely contain my disbelief and wanted to share the love with everyone. Our throng that day consisted of some M3's, M4's, an attending, and a rotating oral surgeon (very helpful to the group, I might add). I asked the newly assigned oral surgeon if he knew the name of the student pharmacist on rotation. I pointed to her ID badge and asked if he knew how to pronounce the name:

JULIA DICKGRABER

Needless to say, rounds ended early that morning.
It was even worse when she was asked to present a case for morning report.

-Push
 
is it written in stone somewhere that if you deliver your child 1 day before its due date or if you are diagnosed with round ligament pain or have pregnancy induced hypertension then you are supposed to name your child miracle... if its term then its supposed to be princess...? at our county hospital we have at least 3 "miracle"s born per week... kind of ironic huh?? best name: moo cow brown
 
This is no crap, we had a pt in the ICU named Pearly Gates. There was a list of great names, but this is the one that stickes out in my mind.
 
Paws said:
Candace Dick. No lie. Please, I am almost too embarrassed to write this here. How can you do that to a child?
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LOL...Candy Dick. hahah
 
I've just finished a Urology rotation with Dr Kok. He's a sexologist as well and hilariously funny. We also had a patient in outpatients named Pretty. The only thing is that the poor thing was probably one of the ugliest women I've ever seen. She's really sweet though and I guess that there's something to be said for optmism.
 
Real people, I swear:

Dr. Sick

Dr. Desire

Dr. Jack Davidoff
 
I knew a guy in high school whose last name was Wacker. It was funny because he said it was pronounced like 'walker'. Poor guy.
 
I knew a lady named Gay. She was in her 60s, so the word probably just meant happy back when she was named. She was a really sweet, cheerful lady, so I guess she really was gay in the traditional sense.

Makes you wonder though…you could give your child a perfectly nice name and years later the word takes on a completely different meaning. (Not that there's anything wrong with being gay, but you have to admit that any kid named Gay is going to get a lot of teasing on the playground nowadays).
 
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My turn!!!!

Girl at a track meet in high school was Alley Dick. The announcer had a lot of fun with it "A Dick is in the lead by a few feet. Oh now A Dick is in second."

ABCDE...someone told me about this one...pronounced "absidy"

And a friend of mine in undergrad was named Mike Cox. I store his number as Mycox.😛
 
I know a current med student with the last name of Doom... she'll be Dr. Doom soon.

I shadowed a lot in the PICU and once there was a 6yo Filipina girl named Cheese (pronounced cheesy).

I also know a guy from school with the first name Jamon.. nothing too exciting there except that he spent a year in Honduras and in spanish, jamon means ham so the locals got a good laugh whenever they saw his name written on official documents.
 
I have a friend who is a urologist. ... His name is Dr. Funk. 👍
 
bjolly said:
I once met a man named Paul Badmarriage. I can just picture his wedding: I now pronounce you...Mr. and Mrs. Badmarriage.
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That one really made me laugh.

I knew a lady who married a guy with the last name Wimberly. She became Kimberly Wimberly.

I went to school with a Holly Wood.
 
High school classmate: Uma Costa. Straight out, that it's no big deal, but the first period teacher did roll-call "lastname, first name", she was asian with a thick accent, so it came out sounding like 'costumer'

Just now met a lady named Teta Grand... The irony is that she is quite flat-chested. :meanie:
 
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