12 Words To Never Say In The Hospital

If you look around disability communities you will see that not everyone prefers person first language (person with a disability vs disabled person). To me personally "person with a disability" suggests that you must remind yourself that I am a person in order to consider me as such. People's individual preferences and opinions on this differ.

The most important is the “Q” word. Never, ever say, wow it is really quiet today. 😂

Excellent. A much needed advice for not just interns but all doctors who forget these simple things, in hospital or in their clinics.

Hi Dr. Strong, I just wanted to say that I really respect and appreciate that you are using your platform to emphasize the importance of our language in medicine. Medical terminology already evolves to better describe certain diseases, so I would hope that professionals are receptive to adopting more humanizing and empathetic language to communicate with and about their patients.

I've learned to not say "It's quiet tonight!"...

Great , helpful and truely ethical ! Thank you ,Dr Eric ✨

Agree with all points and appreciate you choosing this topic for the intern series. Well done as usual.

Ugh I realize how often I use many of these terms, and also how I really should not be. Got to work on being better. Thank you so much for this Dr. Strong.

Some terms I've heard during medical school are Oligophrenic, polycomplainer and many other jargonized insults. Often used in the context of shift changes and warning your colleague that a patient is more difficult than others, due to low intelect (oligophrenic literally meaning little head) or being full of anxious complaints. Where I live, "Tiger" is a derogatory expression for (usually) men of low socioeconomic status that don't usually follow medical recommendations or are generally careless, often with a criminal record and a certain way of speech. From that, comes "tigrin" as in "This patient has high levels of Tigrin". As for "deny" being used, I always learnt from attendings and read that it was to establish that it is a patient statement, not our analysis. It has happened to me that a patient denies abdominal pain, on examination, they experience pain on light touch of the abdomen.

Very good video on the subtle nuances of our language when speaking with patients. Keep up the good work.

I just found out about this channel. I really like this guy! Very often I find myself thinking about ethics in medicine as well. Lately, I am asking myself how good is it really when calling someone a "patient". At least in my language, in greek, a "patient" is called "a-sthe-nis" (ασθενής) meaning someone who is sick / someone who has no power. This term assumes that the other isn't well and I find it negative. Especially when the patient hears it. So what I prefer doing is referring to someone as a "case of ..." or in general as "a case" - greek "pe-ri-sta-ti-ko" (περιστατικό). This states that only a certain thing is wrong with the patient or there is just reason for concern but doesn't imply that everything is wrong with the patient. Now writing this I saw that the word patient means something different in English based on the dictionary definition - "someone receiving medical treatment" which doesn't sound negative. But I now wonder how people really perceive the English word "patient". Since I expected a definition like "someone who suffers from something", I find it in English a bit negative as well, and again I would prefer using the term "case". I'm not really sure why I am writing all this but maybe someone is interested in it and might share their point of view!

Such a great video - thanks for this. Keep up the awesome work!

Thank you Doctor , anyhow i saw those endorse and deny a commons words . For example, patient endorse manic symptoms or Patient denied Sucidal and homicidal idea. These are a must note in psychiatry and carry legal connotations.

Thank you a lot , as all videos on the channel i love cardiac physical exam playlist. I wish there were more videos about physical examination

Could not be said better . Thank you .

whats about the Q word? aka : The "Q" Word (Q=Quiet) is a word known in the Emergency Services as a punishable offensive word. Whenever the word is muttered, the night (or day) becomes flooded with emergency calls.

Brilliant!

Excellent!!!

Wow, thank you 🙋

thank you so much