That sounds like your ambulance service needs a shake up. The very idea that ambulances need to drive out and then back means they are stationed in the wrong place. If it happens a lot the something needs to be done to protect the patients.
"Bagged" is well known to anyone who watches ER, 'cos they say it, too.
'Bag him' and 'central line' are about the only comprehensible words in the programme. 90% of the medical jargon and a lot of the ordinary conversation is either mumbled or spoken so fast I can't understand it. SWMBO listens using headphones, but says it doesn't help all that much.
What about "CBC, Chem-7 - STAT!!!!"
David
The police also use the term bag him, or he has been bagged in respect of the breathaliser.
Dave
I used to be a biologist, so much of the jargon is comprehensible.
I'm struggling a bit with "House", though. I keep having to Google the diseases.
That's easy - CBC is a "complete blood count", and "stat" is an abbreviation for "statinum" meaning "now" or "immediately" in Latin. (Of course...)
"chem 7" I had to look up. (More blood tests).
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Huge saying something like:
Tagged and bagged is the next step, where things haven't worked out too well, of course.
Tsk - yes I knew that ;-) - was just giving an example of something shouted out with sufficient frequency and clarity for the OP presumably to be able to discern!
David
I'm only just mastering ambulance speak! That's A&E speak!
Blood count, serum analysis, now.
Um if you want something to happen 'now', what's wrong with the real word?
tim
The patient might understand, and they wouldn't want that.
Allegedly, bored EMT's play a game where one of them has use a silly word without anyone else (patient, relatives etc) realising. For example 'knobulate'. The object of the game is to get in a phrase like 'we need to knobulate this lady as soon as possible' unnoticed by anyone but your crewmate.
Only played in non serious situations when bored. Keeps them sane I suppose.
Or proves that they are already insane.
Fun to try that in Newcastle - the ambulance crew would need an ambulance if she did notice
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:-)
Doctors? Using real English? Leave it out. Then us mundanes would know what they were talking about, and that would never do.
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