{"id":1795,"date":"2007-12-22T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2007-12-22T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:34:22","slug":"demystifying-doctor-speak-old-wives-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Demystifying doctor-speak, old wives&#8217; tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/la-sci-bmj22dec22,0,383930.story?coll=la-home-center\">From the LAT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is a &quot;Hasselhoff&quot; in doctor-speak? Does eating turkey really make you unusually sleepy? Why is it better to celebrate a big victory with champagne rather than beer?<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the questions addressed in the British Medical Journal&#8217;s Christmas issue, which collects some of the more arcane reports the journal received during the year.<\/p>\n<p>A Hasselhoff is a patient who shows up at an emergency room with an injury and a bizarre explanation, said Dr. Paul Keeley of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in a short compendium of newly minted words used by doctors. The term comes from former &quot;Baywatch&quot; star David Hasselhoff&#8217;s bizarre 2006 shaving accident in which he struck his head on a chandelier; the broken glass severed four tendons and an artery in his right arm, requiring immediate surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Even snarkier is the term &quot;Ringo,&quot; after Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, which refers to a member of a team who is expendable. Draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Other new terms include: &quot;disco biscuit,&quot; another name for the drug Ecstasy; &quot;Jack Bauer,&quot; a doctor still up and working after 24 hours; and &quot;testiculation,&quot; &quot;the holding forth with expressive hand gestures by a consultant on a subject in which he or she has little knowledge.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the LAT: What is a &quot;Hasselhoff&quot; in doctor-speak? Does eating turkey really make you unusually sleepy? Why is it better to celebrate a big victory with champagne rather than beer? Those are some of the questions addressed in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}