That was masterful writing! (as well as a sensibly hopeful message.)
Some of my favourite acronyms/abbreviations, cooked up mostly by nurses:
VSA: vital signs absent. (Never a good sign.)
HBD: has been drinking
FTC: failure to cope
NFW: not feeling well. (As with ADR, some truly bizarre and memorable diseases have evolved out of this presentation.)
"Geri-ogram": ECG, chest X-ray, and comprehensive panel of blood tests in hopes of finding something fixable in a deteriorating elderly patient who is NFW and ADR with FTC, typically done by ER nurses before the doctor sees the patient in hopes of making his task a little easier. (It does!)
There are a number of others that, while clever and funny and not exactly mean are not really kind enough to share with a general audience.
ADR is general malaise with a broad differential diagnosis, so interesting that you were able to cure that coon dog. God help America and the rest of western civilization survive November 5.
As one of my daughters likes to say when a bit of chaos is happening: "It's a hot mess" and we are definitely in a hot mess in both countries.
That was masterful writing! (as well as a sensibly hopeful message.)
Some of my favourite acronyms/abbreviations, cooked up mostly by nurses:
VSA: vital signs absent. (Never a good sign.)
HBD: has been drinking
FTC: failure to cope
NFW: not feeling well. (As with ADR, some truly bizarre and memorable diseases have evolved out of this presentation.)
"Geri-ogram": ECG, chest X-ray, and comprehensive panel of blood tests in hopes of finding something fixable in a deteriorating elderly patient who is NFW and ADR with FTC, typically done by ER nurses before the doctor sees the patient in hopes of making his task a little easier. (It does!)
There are a number of others that, while clever and funny and not exactly mean are not really kind enough to share with a general audience.
I'm glad you were able to cure the dog!
ADR is general malaise with a broad differential diagnosis, so interesting that you were able to cure that coon dog. God help America and the rest of western civilization survive November 5.
ADR , love it. Shared this with Jeff who sees his fair share of that