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One of my favourites was a vet's acronym: DMITO. "Dog More Intelligent Than Owner".

I think the best medical acronym is FTD, failure to die, used in cases where there's no possible way a patient should still be alive, but is

My favorite ER record was a woman who, after something like her 150th ER visit in a single year, was diagnosed with “inability to problem solve”

I've heard of GFPO being used somewhere, which was used to describe a motorcyclist that had been in a bad accident and wasn't going to make it; "good for parts only".

Imagine if they'd filmed Sandi doing more than one end card. That'd be pretty sweet

Cariad Lloyd's; "Anybody who reads a tweet and doesn't understand it immediately, is offended by it," is the quote of the century.

I can tell you that 'chronic biscuit toxicity' is not the CBT I am concerned with in the least

I love these acronyms that sound official or serious but actually stand for hilariously mundane-yet-specific phrases, like the military acronyms SNAFU (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up) and FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition); the former entered common use, while the latter made into programming terminology.

My favorite term is without doubt when someone is said to have died from “impairment of wellbeing.”

A euphemistic acronym to note the patient's death: ART - assuming room temperature.

I worked for an ambulance service and we had a few: CATS, cut all to shit, which is self explanatory. CCFCCP, cuckoo for cocoa puffs, for psych patients. Pharmaceutically gifted for those on certain chemical substances, the kind you're not likely to have a prescription for. And we were once told to stop referring to the hazmat crews as glow worms.

Time for everyone’s favourite show - ‘The Internet melts down in the comment section of a QI video’

I worked in a doctor's office doing the filing, and overweight patients were described as "well-nourished" in their eval notes

Twitter is the medium Tweet is what you send Twit is what you show yourself to be

I'm offended by Sandi's repeated exasperation with my indecisiveness.

A nurse once told me that a patient with two broken elbows was admitted as a victim of FDD...... fell down drunk 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and yes it was written on her patient check list.

My wife is a nurse, and when a patient hasn't been able to have a bowel movement for a long time they use the acronym FOS

I used to work as a nurse in a nursing home and we had a lot of cases of Morbus Meise. Morbus of course being the latin word for disease, Meise is the german name for a tit (the bird, not the body part). It references the german expression "einen Vogel haben" ("to have a bird"), meaning not being quite right in the head or imagining things. So "Morbus Meise" meant that someone was a hypochondriac.

Another acronym is DFO, Done Fell Over (unknown cause of death). There are also the O-sign ( a dead person having their mouth open) and the Q-sign (same thing with tongue hanging out). I am not a medical professional. I have also heard the the Spanish influenza probably started on the US, but Spain was the only country willing to admit it was seriously affected, because of WWI.

There's one in Mansfield for when someone comes in with a really weird injury called NFM which means Normal For Mansfield

2:53 My heart skipped for a second there.

I used to work in a radiology clinic, and a patient was referred for a gall bladder X-ray. Her referring doctor listed the provisional diagnosis as 4F Syndrome. I couldn’t find it in my medical dictionary and had to ask the doctor what it meant so I could process the insurance paperwork. He told me it stood for Fat, Female, Flatulent, and Forty.

literally my only complaint for the entire show is that some times people are very quiet when they are talking so i have to turn it up and then the audience laughs and then it becomes way to loud

Best one I have is from the world of IT PICNIC Problem In Chair Not In Computer

While not an acronym, I was once at a meeting with some paramedics and firies who told me they had a 'Suzanne's Bag'. They used it at major accidents when they had to find parts of people. They'd have one bag for each person and call them Suzanne Bags, because "This goes with this, goes with this goes with that".

PFO Pissed and Fell Over (in Australia anyway)

The acronym that comes to my mind is RUD and stands for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. When anything supposed to go to space blows up! Marvelous!

My favourite astronomy professor once told us a funny story. He met one of his students years after university, who said "Professor! I made very good use of astronomy." The professor was very curious how exactly that happened and asked for an explanation. The student had to do his compulsory military service, and officers all hated the ones coming from university. (e.g. While marching on a field, if they saw a heap of cow sh*t on their left side, they shouted 'Nuke from the right!' which meant a compulsory jump face down to the left.) This ex-student didn't like it, and just before the next 'training' he went to the doctor and said: "Doctor! I have anomalous angular momentum distribution!' The doctor looked at him in silence for a few seconds and said "Oh, that's bad!" and signed him off for three days.

As usual, watch the video, then frantically pause it while reading the comments before Sandi makes me feel like I have to reevaluate my life decisions.

No comments about CBT?

I'm surprised humorous gene names like swiss cheese and cheap date didn't come up. Can you imagine explaining to a distraught mother that her child's cancer is due to a mutation in the sonic hedgehog gene, and you recommended an experimental treatment with robotnikinin?

One of my favourites is an IT acronym: PEBCAK. "Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard"

On the topic of things having unnecessarily frightening names: Exploding head syndrome is a very violent-sounding name for a harmless syndrome (unless it's extreme to the point where you miss hours of sleep) in which the affected is woken up during the night by a perceived loud noise which never actually happened.

A doctor told me I have whitecoat tachycardia. I think that's a great name for a relatively innocuous thing. My heart rate and blood pressure goes up in the presence of doctors.

The comments sections of the QI videos are just great. The only ones I read.

Well, I'm afraid you've got SBI... -But... how long do I have to live? Ten. -Ten what? Nine Eight ...

As someone who suffers from ODD (Offense Deficit Disorder), I can't help but feel I've been unfairly excluded by this video.

Cariad Lloyd is just perfect ...

During covid... when u say WHO we think of world health organisation haha

In some TV series the doctors gave a hysteric patient a medicine called Obecalp, which is "placebo" reversed.

When I was in law enforcement 20+ years ago, a common acronym was DRT. "Dead Right There". By the way, I'm not offended by words. People shooting at me is an entirely different matter though.

Getting strong Disneyland "Treasured Guest" vibes

Fun fact, the first case of the “Spanish Flu” strain of infulenza was actually recorded in Kansas

Just off to request access to my medical notes...🥴

One that medical professionals were actually told to stop using was NFN, Normal For Norfolk which was used to describe issues likely to be from inbreeding originally but just became something generally derogatory. Having worked with medical data some of which was about the impact of inbreeding, I understand the need to have this flagged, but apparently without evidence they are now not even allowed to suggest it's an issue. One brother and sister who were children of cousins, and being encouraged to marry, I really wish I was making this up, had so many health issues medical staff were trying to intervene and see them together as much as possible to explain what had gone on. The parents saw no issue, despite their own medical problems, likely again from inbreeding in their lineage and had threatened to sue the medics for interfering in the intended match, even though this would never be deemed legal in the UK. I was weapons grade stupid in my youth but more approachable and realistic to medics who saved me a few times from dying due to risks I took in the name of competitive dangerous sports. One prognosis I will always remember was a doctor telling me my body hadn't figured out how to die, and that I needed to be more careful before it caught on. This was after requesting and being granted permission to be wheeled to the start of an event in a chair so that I was there and wouldn't lose all of my points by failing to start too many. I don't know what the acronym was, but it shouldn't have been polite.

Ebola is one of those names - it's a tributary of the Congo. In 1976, the doctor who named the disease (rightfully) decided NOT to name it after the town it was discovered in (Yambuku), for fear that the people living there would somehow be punished for it. Instead, he named it after the river, which was 70 miles away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_River

You cant name a disease sudden-death syndrome. SIDS: allow me to introduce myself.

Love that Phil is representing City Lights in San Francisco! I bet he had a great time there.

Old computer repair term PEBKAS Error Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Seat

We Dutch do that differently: we offend people with diseases. We use names of diseases as swearwords.

My favourite medical acronym is one from Stephen's tenure, which was NFN - Normal For Norfolk.

I work in IT and we use PICNIC - Problem in chair not in computer ;)

There's also CTD - "circling the drain," and DRT - "dead right there," at the scene of an accident. (Loved the "patient told to eff off one. Tee hee!) Oh yeah, and some of us suffer from CRS - "can't remember sh-t."

A good friend was conscious but going downhill very fast and heard one of the medical staff say "we're losing the sun"... Not a very good code if you ask me. For the record, he made a full recovery, but knew exactly what they meant, and I'm sure you do too ;-)

"Chronic Biscuit Toxicity". And here I thought CBT stood for something else.

PRATFO.... that’s a keeper.

I remember Michael Crichton years ago telling about one that doctors would share amongst themselves, FLK; Funny Looking Kid.

In vet med instead of SBI we have ADR which stands for "Ain't doin right" lol

That @3Bears genuinely caused me to cackle xD

Apparently a doctor wrote "PBBB" on a patient's chart, meaning "Pine Box By Bedside". The family saw the acronym and actually knew what it meant, and sued the doctor (What? How did you guess it was in America?!). Probably an apocryphal story, but I was told it in Nursing School.

CTD: Circling the drain

Another old medical notation for someone who wasn't especially bright was NFN, normal for Norfolk. Webbed feet or hands was SB, Sheppy Baby.

I've actually seen GOMER (Get Out of My ER) charted... And "Two Dudes Syndrome." I was standing there, minding my own business and these Two Dudes came up and kicked my tookus...

WNYC's On the Media has an incredible episode about the 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic and how it may have even played a part in triggering WWll because the American president was afflicted while at the peace negotiations which led in part to Germany getting such a raw deal

The Cambridge University Netball Team decided not to adopt an acronym.

A really morbid one told to me by a paramedic was FORD - found on road dead. For hit and runs when a police officer talking to loved ones might have their radio on he told me. Another was a 'coastguard duty' or DTS for danger to shipping, both for the obese patients.

In the performing arts we use the term Goomar. “I had a total Goomar in today.” [Get Out Of My Audition Room.]

my favorite medical acronym TMB, to many birthdays.

There's a disease in Japan that was named after me. True story. Not what you expect to learn when googling your name during 10th grade study hall.

Almost spit my food out at the "at three bears" comment.

my mum used to work in the ER and they would use the acronym DFO or 'drunk and fallen over'

A common acronym in the veterinary field is ADR, "Ain't Doing Right." It almost always ends up meaning a vaguely less energetic animal maybe eating less than usual.

MERS may be the final disease named for a geographic region. Spanish Flu was so named because Spain could take the political bullet for the USA, where it originated. Most thusly named diseases are misnomers, such as "The French Disease" (aka "The Spanish Diesease") which also came out of North America 250 years before the USA existed.

Sounds like most of these acronyms fall under MSU (Making Shit Up), which also leads to DHTP (De-Humanising The Person).

"So you're offended, so fucking what?" - Stephen Fry

Abbreviations used by nurses include MFC for a patient who won't live long - measure for coffin.

Big up to sandi for being hip and down with kids

Written on a child's notes VGLM very good looking mother

Phil knew what cbt really stands for

For computer problems we have: PEBCAK - Problem exists between chair and keyboard

SEP. Someone else's problem. Nurse: DOA (date of admission) Doctor: DOA (dead on arrival)

sorta similar to IT, with the PIBKAC. "Problem is between keyboard and chair"

well, Legionnaires disease actually effected Legionaries they started it with stagnate water in the a/c units

ADR: ain’t doin’ right. Used in our vet practice for patients that just aren’t themselves for some unknown reason

Patient Reassured And Told To ... That was me ... Turned out those "lumps" on my tongue were taste buds. 😜

My favorite medical acronym is SOB, which stands for shortness of breath not what you would think! I was working as a secretary on a medical unit and overheard one nurse telling another. “ He was a little SOB overnight.” I later told her he’s always a little SOB. She laughed and then explained to me that it stands for short of breath..

I do get a chuckle out of NFN - Normal for Norfolk

all the more relevant nowadays! at my place of work, we ended up with quite a bit of confusion wrt. internal- and external-facing documents and interfaces cause this exact thing happened with the 'rona. it was no longer ok to say "new uk" or "brazil variant" etc cause they associated places in the world with diseases, so the new naming scheme of just doing the greek letters meant that the delta variant - the rona variant that was discovered first in i think india? - got confused with the local "delta-pcr" test - which is a much faster alternative to whole genome sequencing for finding out which variant a covid sample is, *_as long as it's already a known variant being tested for._*

Another good one, from A and E Doctors on a saturday night, is PAFO. Pissed And Fell Over.

Haha, I suffer from SADS (sudden adult death syndrome) and have an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) - "defib" in my chest. I find this hilarious. :)

Spanish flu was never considered offensive until a certain someone said chinese flu about covid-19.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is quite rare but I think it's more common in the UK than anywhere else. It's basically extremely accelerated Alzheimer's and it's remarkably scary.

My buddy that works emergency medicine has FDGB - fall down go boom

I've heard of NFN - Normal For Norfolk.

My fave acronym is TLA: Three Letter Actonym

I was expecting something to do with the Abbot and Costello routine.

There is a reason why Dr.'s don't want patients to see their notes _ they'll discover how much contempt is held for The patient.

CBT? Thought this was "Naming Names", not "Kinky"

So most people's palms have three creases. Rarely some people are born with two of the palm lines merged. This is known as simian crease. Now professionals call it single transverse palmar crease STPC.

CTD -Circling The Drain.😆