Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

My personal favorites are "Empowering Excellence" for staffing reductions through productivity benchmarking and "unanticipated outcome" for medical/surgical complications and medical errors.

When I used to work in health-care, we enrolled people in research programs, then when they were done we disenrolled them.

One of the things I appreciated working for a hospital was that there was no double speak when some one died. A reason for disenrollment was "death."

I work at a community college now, and one which annoys me is developmental education. It means education for people who are not yet ready to take college level courses. It bothers me because all education is developmental.