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LOAD THE BOAT
— call in senior medical staff as ass-covering exercise
TACHYLORDYOSIS (WITH THE JUNCTIONAL JESUS)
— Usually a middle-aged to older black female American with a complaint of 'lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy', occasionally with the interspersed 'Jesus' i.e. 'lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy, Jesus help me, lordy, lordy'
EATING THE BILL
— (USA) providing care for indigent patients lacking insurance i.e. 'We ate the bill on that guy.'
RUNNING TOWARDS THE LIGHT
— dying
NECTAR OF THE GODS
— coffee; without which many hospital services would shut down
BLINKY THE FISH
— radiologist (The 3-eyed, mutant goldfish from The Simpsons is the mascot of many radiology depts).
BUGS IN THE RUG
— pubic lice
WIN THE GAME (OR YAHTZEE)
— to discharge all of the patients from your service, so that you have no inpatients (i.e. no ward rounds) next day.
THE FISH PLANT
— Gynaecology/Obstetrics Ward (from Newfoundland, where fisheries is the main industry)
MOW THE LAWN/TRIM THE HEDGE
— remove a long line of sutures
SUCKING THE PEACE PIPE
— intubated
SPIN THE PATIENT
— CT scan
NOT EVEN IN THE BALL GAME
— confused, senile patient
ROUNDING UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
— Ordering a set of tests for a given set of symptoms
THE
— The Human Element
DOING THE TWIRLY
— circling the drain (about to die)
THE PROMISED LAND
— private practice/final year of medical school
ICING ON THE CAKE
— lethal tumor discovered in the X-rays of a heart attack victim.
BULL IN THE RING
— blockage in the large intestine
BURY THE HATCHET
— accidently leave a surgical instrument inside a patient.
SENT OVER THE HEDGES
— sent to radiology
SMOKE THE ANAESTHETIC CIGAR/SMOKE THE CAMEL
— intubated
FIREBALLS OF THE UTICAS
— fibroids of the uterus
THE
— Toronto Health Economics
THE GARDEN
— neurological ICU where the vegetables (coma patients) live
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