PRIVATES: Private doctors of the House of God; 'Double O' Private is one 'licensed to kill.'
Psoriatic: pertaining to psoriasis, a disease producing scaly skin.
PSYCHIATRY: an NPC specialty.
Psychoanalysis: the Freudian technique of psychotherapy.
Pulmonary edema: flooding of the lungs with fluid, often from a backed?up flow of blood during congestive heart failure; along with the bowel run, a specialty of the House.
Pulinonary embolus: bloodclot lodging in the lung; often a sudden event in bedridden patients which produces death.
Putzeled: to be treated as Dr. Putzel, House Double O Private, would treat; colloq.: 'screwed.'
Q.E.D.: Quod Erat Demonstrandum, 'which was to be demonstrated,' 'thus.'
Quadriceps: four large muscles of the thigh.
RAYS: Radiology, an NPC Specialty.
Redhot: hotshot, whizkid, face, young mensch, 'my man.'
Renology: medical specialty dealing with kidney and urine.
Respiratory tech: respiratory technician, in charge of machines to aid respiration of patients.
ROR: Relationship On Rocks; frequent event during internship; cf. MOR.
Rounds: meetings to discuss patients.
Scapula: shoulderblade.
Septicemia: infection of the blood, leading to infection of major organs, and to septic shock, in which the blood pressure falls.
SICU: Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
SIEVE: an intern in the Emergency Room who admits too many patients, who does not BUFF and TURF patients out to the street (the process known as MEET 'EM AND STREET 'EM); opposite of WALL.
Sigmoidoscopy: process of introducing a long, lighted, straight tube, the sigmoidoscope, through the anus into the dark, twisted lower bowel to look at the feces and the pathology; a specialty of the House.
SLURPERS: House Academics, striving to lick their way up the academic medical cone toward the one position at the top?the Chief.
Stasis ulcers: erosion of the skin caused by pressure, often from lying in one position for too long; seen in debilitated patients who are unable to move themselves.
STAT: at once, immediately.
Steatorrhea: foul?smelling and oily diarrhea.
Straight bendover: nursing maneuver in which, legs held straight, nurse bends over bed, flashing ass.
Subarachnoid space: layer of spinal cord where cerebrospinal fluid circulates; aimed at in lumbar puncture.
Superior mesenteric insufficiency: syndrome in which an artery of the gut, the superior mesenteric? artery, becomes blocked, resulting in loss of blood supply to bowel, necrosis, and foul?smelling infected stool.
Systolic: contraction of the heart; opposite of relaxation or diastolic; systolic murmur is one which appears during contraction.
TBC: Total Bowel Control, a concept of the Fat Man's, implying complete regulation of all bowel function.
Tern: Intern, the first of a series of House Staff members, including Resident, Junior Assistant Resident, Senior Resident, Chief Resident, Fellow, Junior Fellow, Senior Fellow.
Thorazine: A drug used to decrease anxiety, especially the severe anxiety related to psychosis; one of a number of mind?bending drugs used by the House Staff, others being Stelazine, Valium, alcohol, Elavil, Dexedrine, etc.
Triage: to sort according to severity of injury, so that the more severe are attended to first.
TURF: get rid of, as TURF a gomer to Urology; often preceded by a BUFF, as in BUFF and TURF; occasionally followed by a BOUNCE, as 'I TURFED my gomere to Urology, but she, BOUNCED back to me'; to BUFF and; TURF, according to the Fat Man, is the essence of the delivery of medical care, the concept of the 'revolving door.'
Uremic: a stage of renal failure in which waste products flood the blood.
UROLOGY: surgical specialty dealing with the urinary tree; 'plumbing'
Vagitch: itch in the vaginal region; nonspecific; common.
V.D.: Venereal disease.
