Taking Suggestions For The Term…
To convey that a patient has a very interesting/fascinating disease process, syndrome or problem from a medical standpoint, which you would typically describe to your medical colleagues as “crazy,” “cool,” or “awesome,” but that you also want to convey that you realize this is obviously not good for the patient, and often, in fact, suggests a poor prognosis or outcome, and that you are not a cold, heartless bastard that just ignores this fact. You do, in fact, care about the patient, and are saddened by the fact that he or she has this problem.
I’ll start with my suggestions:
- medically awesome, patiently bad
- bittersweet badness
- fasc-ible (combo fascinating and terrible)
- RIBB FoMP (really interesting but bad for my patient)
Ooohh, I like fasc-ible. I do that all the time and I feel really guilty afterwards…
That’s hilarious! I always hate it when we describe something as a “great case”–a great case of rare cancer, for example. I dig the acronym version–RIBB FoMP. After all, what is medicine but acronyms?
Keep em coming guys and gals. I’ve been one of those patients and would like to have a cooler name to attribute to my CVID. BTW, it took 12 years, numerous docs, and it was finally a PA who got the diagnosis. Just a note to put in your memory banks. Gay men’s health problems don’t always revolve around HIV. Remember to think outside of the “HIV box”.
I’m kind of partial to the acronyms myself.
Surgical mishaps are often called “spectacular disasters” during post-op visits. Less intriguing cases (but equally bad ones) are dubbed “Humpty Dumpty,” which I thought is appropriate since I work in eyeballs.
I kinda like the reverse of fasc-ible… Terrinating.
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