Medical slang
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Medical slang
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Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem, Bodies by Jed Mercurio, and A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson Examples of pejorative language include bagg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_slang
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2024-03-26T01:18:20Z
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