Medical Pop-Culture
This popular hospital show is famously inaccurate.
What is Grey's Anatomy
This suffix means "the surgical remove of".
What is -ectomy?
This heavy metal used to be ordered as medicine.
What is mercury?
You begin your shift with 6 kinds of these, and end up with 2 by 1900.
What is a pen?
Saying this phrase at 6:45 p.m. virtually guarantees a new admission, a rapid response, and someone pulling out an IV.
What is "it's quiet today".
This role does EVERYTHING in the hospital on medical shows.
What is a doctor?
The word "telemetry" originates from this language.
What is Greek?
These familiar fizzy drinks used to once be considered medication, and were sold out of pharmacies.
What is a soda?
This object is parallel parked around the whole floor, and usually has at least 1 sticky note on it.
What is a WOW?
Saying this will summon an admission, as soon as you acknowledge it.
What is "I have an empty bed"?
Nurses on TV can find this easily, but in reality you spend 15mins just asking coworkers where it is.
What is a bladder scanner/glucometer?
This common diagnosis means "excessive" and "stretching" in Greek/Latin
What is hypertension?
This treatment involved intentionally removing blood to help patients.
What is bloodletting?
This warm object can float right off your patient if you don't secure it in place.
What is a Bair Hugger blanket/Bair Hugger?
You find a code brown after asking your partner this question.
What is "can you help with a boost"?
This happens on TV when you shock asystole.
What is "the patient comes back to life"
This body part name comes from Latin for “little brain".
What is the cerebellum?
This brutal procedure was a last ditch method to treat mental illness, usually while they were still awake.
What is a lobotomy/ice pick method?
You forget what size you are for these by the time you need them next.
What are sterile gloves?
You say this right before you miss.
What is "they've got good veins"?
In movies, you will wake up tied to a chair after being whacked in the back of the head with a pipe. In real life, this would happen instead.
What is death or permanent disability?
This is how you say you don't know the cause of a diagnosis.
What is idiopathic?
This was an ironic treatment for asthma, but now we know better.
What is smoking?
This found in every patient room, isolation carts and probably inside your laundry.
What are (clean, I hope) blue gloves?
What is said moments before you hear a bed alarm?
What is "they're A+Ox4"/"they're sleeping well"/"they'll call if they need anything"?