The Secret Language Of Doctors

Dr. Brian Goldman

ISBN 10: 1443416029 / ISBN 13: 9781443416023

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2015

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The Secret Language of Doctors: Cracking the Code of Hospital Slang. HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Great condition with minimal wear, aging, or shelf wear. Signed by author on Title Page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Language Of Doctors
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443416029
• ISBN 13: 9781443416023
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

All of us have visited the doctor or sat in the emergency room for long hours awaiting treatment. When we finally do reach the other side of the swinging doors, we enter into what seems like another world, with practitioners in white coats and scrub suits speeding from patient to patient, consulting with one another amid controlled chaos. Beneath the cacophony of medical equipment and routine codes announced over the loudspeaker, doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, usually out of earshot of their patients but sometimes in front of them. The words you'll learn in this book are not expressions that you'll likely find in a medical textbook or even hear on a television show. In fact, most health professionals would rather you didn't know that this underground language exists at all.

In The Secret Language of Doctors, bestselling author Dr. Brian Goldman pulls back the curtain to reveal some of medicine's darkest modern secrets, decoding the colourful and clandestine expressions doctors employ to describe difficult patients, situations and medical conditions—and sometimes even other colleagues. You'll discover what it means to exhibit the symptoms of "incarceritis," what "blocking" and "turfing" are, and why you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma." In the process, you'll gain profound insight into what doctors really think about their patients' personalities and even their chances of making it out of the hospital alive.

Highly accessible, biting, funny and entertaining, The Secret Language of Doctors reveals modern medical culture at its best and all too often at its worst.

About the Author

DR. BRIAN GOLDMAN is an ER doctor and a bestselling author. His CBC Radio show and podcast, White Coat, Black Art, has been on the air for over a decade. A sought-after speaker, he is also the host of The Dose, a CBC podcast about personal health. Brian Goldman lives in Toronto with his family.