doctor shopping n.— «Eventually, according to Detective Parrish, Chad began getting his prescriptions through a practice known as doctor shopping.…A person makes appointments with several doctors, fakes symptoms that would merit their prescription...
cone n.— «Where scientists are never addressed as doctor because everyone has a Ph.D.; instead they’re affectionately known as “cones” as in cone heads.» —“Los Alamos’ Future Up In The Air” in Los Alamos, N.M. CBSNews.com Aug. 7, 2005. (source:...
mets
n.— «I have mets.…it has metastasized to my lungs. Don’t pay for that trip to France.» —“When the doctor is the patient” by Cathy Gordon Houston Chronicle Aug. 1, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
terminal wean n.— «In twelve cases they performed a procedure called, in only mildly obscurantist language, a “terminal wean.” (Although neither doctors nor nurses literally “pull the plug,” the process is dramatic enough. After a doctor or, more...
organlegger n.— «The organlegger was officially dead. His heart went into storage immediately. His skin followed, most of it in one piece, all of it still living. The doctor took him apart with exquisite care, like disassembling a flexible...
go bare v.— «Other doctors drop malpractice insurance because they have been sued so many times they cannot afford it. In either case, patients have the right to know when a doctor is uninsured or “going bare,” as the practice is called.» —“‘Bare’...
