YOYO | Youre On Your Own | - | NASA |
YMRASU | Your Medical Records Are Screwed Up | - | NASA |
YAVIS | Young, Attractive, Verbal, Intelligent, Successful. | - | NASA |
WWI | Walking While Intoxicated (and Fell Over) | - | NASA |
WOMBAT | Waste Of Money, Brains And Time | - | NASA |
WNL | Will Not Listen; Patient Won't Take Medical Advice | - | NASA |
WNL | (Ambulance/casualty) Within Normal Limits, But More Often Interpreted As We Never Looked | - | NASA |
WITPOMS | Why Is This Patient On My Service | - | NASA |
WFFAD | Will Follow From A Distance - Will Check Your Lab Results, But Will Never Set Foot In Your Room Again | - | NASA |
WAFTAM | ("woff-tam"): Waste Of F***ing Time And Money | - | NASA |
WADHAO | Weak And Dizzy And Hurt All Over | - | NASA |
VTMK | Voice To Melt Knickers (the Voice Deliberately Cultivated By Some Doctors) | - | NASA |
VOMIT | Victim Of Modern Imaging Technology (i.e. Try Treating The Patient, Not The Report From Radiology; Particularly Referring To Invasive Procedures For False Positives. | - | NASA |
VIP | Very Intoxicated Person | - | NASA |
VD | Veak And Dizzy; Older Person Feeling Vaguely Unwell And Presents At ER At 2am Complaining Of Feeling "weak And Dizzy" | - | NASA |
VBT | Very Bad Thing | - | NASA |
VBA | Valuable Breathing Air; I.e. What Some Patients Or Doctors Are Wasting | - | NASA |
VAC | Vultures Are Circling (dying) | - | NASA |
UPF | Un-Passed Fart (gaseous Distended Abdomen) | - | NASA |
UNIVAC | Unusually Nasty Infection, Vultures Are Circling | - | NASA |
ULPP | Unlicensed Pharmaceutical Provider (drug Dealer) | - | NASA |
UGLI | Ugly: A Patient (usually A Child) Who Looks A Bit Odd But Has Nothing Wrong With Them | - | NASA |
UFO | Unidentified Frozen Object: Unidentified Dead Homeless Person In The Winter | - | NASA |
UDI | Unidentified Drinking Injury | - | NASA |
UBI | Unexplained Beer Injury | - | NASA |
TYFTIC | Thank You For This Interesting Consult - This Is Complete B*llsh*t | - | NASA |
TWSAM | Trash Will Survive And Multiply | - | NASA |
TWA | Third World Assassins. Slang For The Allegedly Poor Medical Care Delivered By Physicians Who Went To Medical School In Foreign Countries | - | NASA |
TVTP | Tried Vancomycin, Try Prayer (Vancomycin Is Anti-MRSA Drug) | - | NASA |
TUBE | Totally Unnecessary Breast Examination (might Happen To A GLM / MILF) | - | NASA |
TTTR | Tooth To Tattoo Ratio - Visual Determination Of Basic Intelligence. A Positive Ratio (more Teeth Then Tattoos) Is Generally Better Than A Negative Ratio, Which Is Bad. | - | NASA |
TTR | (US) Tattoo-to-Tooth Ratio (Dirtbag Ratio) | - | NASA |
TTOAST | Take Them Out And Shoot Them | - | NASA |
TTJ | Transfer To Jesus | - | NASA |
TTFO | Told To F*ck Off | - | NASA |
TSS | Toxic Sock Syndrome (often Related To The Homeless) | - | NASA |
TSL | Too Stupid To Live | - | NASA |
TRO | Time Ran Out | - | NASA |
TOI | Trans-occipital Implants - Bullet Wound To The Head | - | NASA |
TOG | Tears Of Gratitude | - | NASA |
TOBP | Tired Of Being Pregnant (especially Patient Demanding Caesarian) | - | NASA |
TMI | Three Meaningless Initials (e.g. John Smith, TMI - Applied To Medics With Qualifications Rather Than Ability) | - | NASA |
TMB | Too Many Birthdays: Person Dying Of "old Age" | - | NASA |
TLR | Two Legged Rat - Refers To A Patient Undergoing Experimental Or Extreme Treatments | - | NASA |
TLGP | Two Legged Guinea Pig - Patient Undergoing Experimental Or Extreme Treatments | - | NASA |
TLC | Tube, Lavage & Charcoal (given To Poisoning Victim) | - | NASA |
THC | Three Hots And A Cot; Sought In A&E By The Local Homeless | - | NASA |
TFTB | Too Fat To Breathe | - | NASA |
TFO | Too F*cking Old (person Dying Of Old Age). | - | NASA |
TF BUNDY | Totally F*cked, But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet | - | NASA |
TEETH | Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy | - | NASA |
TEC | Transfer To Eternal Care I.e. Dead | - | NASA |
TDS | Terminal Deceleration Syndrome (e.g. RTA Death, High-rise Syndrome, Jump-suicides And Parachute-failed-to-open) | - | NASA |
TCS | Toxic Confusional State - Confused, Usually Elderly, Person Whose Problem Is Due To Constipation (toxic Build Up In Body) | - | NASA |
TCLT | Transcranial Lead Therapy - Gunshot Wound Passing Through Head | - | NASA |
TBP | Total Body Pain | - | NASA |
TBD | Total Body Dolor I.e. Complains Of Pain Everywhere | - | NASA |
TBC | Total Body Crunch: Multiple Injuries | - | NASA |
TATT | Talks All The Time (also "Tired All The Time") | - | NASA |
TARFU | Things Are Really F*cked Up | - | NASA |
TAPS | Thick As Pig Sh*t | - | NASA |
SYB | Save Your Breath (for Patients Who Don't Take Advice) | - | NASA |
SWW | Sick, Wet And Whiny (infant) | - | NASA |
SWI | Something Wrong Inside | - | NASA |
SWAG | Scientific Wild Ass Guess | - | NASA |
SVRI | Something Very Wrong Inside (usually Terminal) | - | NASA |
SSDD | Same Sh*t Different Day | - | NASA |
SRI | Something Wrong Inside (undiagnosable Problem) | - | NASA |
SPAK | Status Post Ass Kicking | - | NASA |
SOG | Sick Old Guy (male Version Of LOL (Little Old Lady)) | - | NASA |
SODDI | Some Other Doctor Did It (when One Medic's Botched Jobs Must Be Put Right/answered For By Someone Else) | - | NASA |
SOCMOB | Standing On Corner Minding Own Business (when Inexplicably Injured) | - | NASA |
SOB | Sitting Out Of Bed / Sitting On Bed | - | NASA |
SOB | Silly Old Bugger / B*stard / Bitch | - | NASA |
SOB | Short Of Breath | - | NASA |
SNUD | Sick Nigh Unto Death | - | NASA |
SIO | Sleeping It Off | - | NASA |
SIG | Stroppy Ignorant Girl | - | NASA |
SHS | Sullen, Hostile, Stupid (often An Inner City Drug/alcohol Addict) | - | NASA |
SHPOS | Sub-Human Piece Of Sh*t | - | NASA |
SHAD | Syphilitic, Hypochondriac, Alcoholic Degenerate | - | NASA |
SHA | Ship His Ass (when Patients Refuse To Be Discharged). | - | NASA |
SFSF | Sphincter Factor Scale: 1 To 10 Scale Indicating Degree Of Bowel-loosening In Response To An Emergency | - | NASA |
SFS | Stinky Foot Syndrome (often Related To Homeless) | - | NASA |
SEP | Somebody Else's Problem (not To Be Confused With Sepsis) | - | NASA |
SBOD | Stupid Bitch / Bastard On Drugs | - | NASA |
SBLEO | (pronounced S-B-Leo) Suicide By Law Enforcement Officer | - | NASA |
SBI | Something Bad Inside E.g. Undiagnosed Cancer/unexpected Serious Condition Found When Performing Surgery | - | NASA |
SBA | Silver Bracelet Award - Patient Is A Prisoner Brought In Wearing Cuffs | - | NASA |
SAS | Sick As Sh*t | - | NASA |
S2 | Sit The F**k Down And Shut The F**k Up | - | NASA |
RUTUS | Rounding Up The Usual Suspects - Ordering A Set Of Tests For A Given Set Of Symptoms | - | NASA |
RTTL | Running Towards The Light - Dying | - | NASA |
RTTBBB | Rat-a-Tat-Tat With A Baseball Bat (hit With Blunt Instrument). | - | NASA |
RT | Room Temperature (dead) | - | NASA |
RR | Rocket Room - A Ward/unit Where There Are Many Deaths (many Transfers To Heaven) | - | NASA |
RPVU | Relative Porsche Value Unit: Surgical Index Of Potential Income From The Repair Of Patient Injuries, Usually Orthopaedic In Nature. Fractured Finger = A Windscreen Wiper; A Fractured Hip = New Tyres Etc. | - | NASA |
RLI | Rapid Lead Infusion - Obnoxious Patient Ought To Be Shot | - | NASA |
RHS | Rocking Horse Stool - Even Rarer Than Hen's Teeth | - | NASA |
RBS | Really Bad Shape | - | NASA |