What is a logical fallacy? It is an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid.
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My argument is that medical slang generally can not only be or become disrespectful or ambiguous but also in the case relating to patients themselves, the derogatory descriptions may actually represent an action by the professional to create a logical fallacy. Examples of medical slang as applied to patients include “dirt ball” for a patient who enters the emergency room filthy and smelling badly or “druggie” for patients known or suspected for illicit drug use or “goldbrick” for a patient who demands more attention than their (minor) condition warrants or the acronyms LOBNH for “lights on but nobody home” for a patient with suspected dementia and, of course, GOMER for “get out of my emergency room!”. For example: “baby catcher” for obstetrician or “butchers” or “knife happy” for surgeons.
On the other hand, medical slang can be derogatory even though amusing when applied to medical specialties. Ambiguity can be related to the fact that an acronym or abbreviated word may not be sufficiently distinctive and can be used or interpreted for more than one medical term.Įxamples of medical slang can be as benign as but also potentially ambiguous as the following medical transcription terms: “lytes”=electrolytes, “nitro”=nitroglycerine,”sats”=saturations, “crit”=hematocrit, “mets”=metastases, “osteo”=osteoporosis. Derogatory means that findings or persons are expressed in a disrespectful or degrading manner. Unfortunately, the use of medical slang may lapse into derogatory expression or become ambiguous. Presumably the basis for the use of medical slang is to communicate one’s concept or clinical finding or evaluation or diagnosis to other caregivers in a rapid and concise way. It is expressed either in informal vocabulary as words, abbreviated terms or also as acronyms (words made up of initial letters of the words the acronym represents) related to medical terms or conditions, persons or events.
Medical slang is a form of slang used by doctors, nurses, paramedics and other hospital or medical staff.
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