respant n.— «Do not be what the word “patient” implies, a submissive sufferer. Be what I call a “respant,” a responsible participant, in your care.» —“To combat surgical errors, ‘team’ needs to stay...
Throckmorton sign n.— «One of these medical “tidbits” is the infamous “Throckmorton sign” for hip X-rays. This sign, the student is told, means that the penis is always pointed towards the side with the problem...
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...