oil-spot strategy n.— «France’s Moroccan policies were skillfully guided by the flamboyant Resident General Hubert Lyautey, whose patient “oil-spot” strategy of conquest and “indirect” methods of governing both...
heroic dose n.— «One drop of it was fully as efficient as curiosity in killing a cat.…An early nineteenth century pharmacopoeia lists a tobacco enema. About the same time the surgeon and anatomist, Sir Ashley Cooper, recommended...
heartsink n. a feeling of dismay or disappointment; in medical use, heartsink patient, a patient that is difficult or impossible to help. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
capper n.— «This type of fraud—which draws on a web of doctors, surgery center owners and staff, and patient recruiters known as “cappers”—is hard to spot and stop.» —“In a Surgery Capital, a Swirl of Fraud...
pre-sick adj.— «The underlying concept is that once patients have chronic conditions and enter disease management programs, they are already quite sick and inevitably will be costly patients. Better to identify and help the “pre...
rat hunter n.— «Rat hunter. Delirium tremens patient who imagines he sees hundreds of rats.» —“Hospital Workers’ Slang and Jargon” by Hospital Workers in New York City. Also, Virginia and Arkansas. in New York...