Word Games
Expanding your vocabulary in some unusual directions.
Archaic
Take this quiz and see how well you understand terms that predate the precursor to ICD.
Cytokine storm
Cytokine storm is poetic for a medical term.
Rounding with the Bard
Shakespeare's words apply to hospital medicine, a fictional physician finds.
The antisesquipedalianist
An intern encounters a patient with something to say.
Monkey medicine
You may feel like you've entered a zoo and your ward has become the primate house, so here are the terms you will need to be a successful hominid hospitalist.
Morbid fascination
Obesity is only one of many conditions that could be called morbid.
Canine colloquialisms
These will help anyone who works in the hospital get to the head of the pack.
Armadillo exposure, subsequent encounter
If there is no code for it in ICD-10, there is no way I could have an armadillo-related disease.
Quattro formaggi
Working in the hospital can be a cheesy experience.
Aphorism-based medicine
Analyzing medical truisms can help us understand how medicine has progressed over time.
Eponymous chest pain
A hectic day is made worse by a know-it-all fellow.
Yiddish for hospitalists
After our Latin primer for hospitalists, it only seems right to explore another language that's likely to be of great help.
Latin for hospitalists
Here are the top 10 useful Latin phrases for hospitalists for 2012.
In like Flint
The Austin Flint murmur was named for a physician who disliked eponyms.
The write stuff
Have you ever been given a prescription from your physician that was completely illegible?