Gorked is paramedic and hospital slang for a patient who is unconscious or profoundly out of it, often after an overdose or heavy anesthesia. Ben from Colorado says he would use it with colleagues, but not with a patient’s family. A related...
pimp v. (by senior medical personnel) to badger a student doctor with medical questions (as a teaching method). Editorial Note: The more common meanings of to pimp are well-defined elsewhere. Etymological Note: The theory posited in the 1997...