Harvard death n.— «When I was an intern, we used to refer to this as a “Harvard Death”: you kept pumping meds until all the cultures were negative and test results were normal but the patient still succumbed.» —by C.J...
Harvard death n. a death which occurs despite all symptoms being treated successfully or all medical test results appearing normal. Editorial Note: This term is often explained to mean “the operation was successful but the patient died.”...
Harvard death n.— «I thought about that bitter medical student joke, the “Harvard death,” in which all the lab results are perfect, all the electrolytes and body chemistry numbers “in the boxes”—as the patient dies...
terminal wean n. the intentional reduction of medical life-support, especially mechanical or supplemental respiration, that permits a patient to die. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
terminal weaning n.— «Physicians often withdraw patients from mechanical ventilators when therapy has been judged futile or the patient requests discontinuation. Withdrawal occurs in two ways: physicians either extubate patients...
Indiana normal n.— «“Indiana normal” is the term the Fort Wayne physician has coined to refer to the weight of many of his patients. “In a day in my office seeing patients, it’s rare that I see a patient of normal...