Definition:

A patient who cannot or will not be moved to another medical facility, either due to a shortage of beds or because of the patient’s refusal.

Usage:

We have four or five bed-blockers on the unit tonight.

Created Feb 05, 2010

Definition:

A physician's consult in which the entire presentation takes place in 5 seconds and the consultant's hand never leaves the doorknob to the entrance of the patient's room.

Usage:

I've got another series of doorknob rounds to do before I call it a day.

Created Feb 06, 2010

Definition:

A pain in the neck as a result of a minor car accident -- usually made up to defraud an insurance company.

Usage:

She's complaining of a neck injury after her Escort hit a mailbox. It's probably just some insurance pain.

Synonyms:

insurance fraud

Created Feb 07, 2010

Definition:

Flowers are present at a patient's bedside, usually an nice indication of a caring or thoughtful family and that the patient may be a candidate for an early discharge.

Usage:

Well, the flower sign is evidence that someone's concerned.

Created Feb 08, 2010

Definition:

Ordering a host of medical tests to determine the cause of a patient's pain because everyone's clueless.

Usage:

The paninvestigram is underway.

Created Feb 08, 2010

Definition:

A mother who is encouraging her child to exaggerate the nature of his or her complaint. This is often done to elicit a particular diagnoses or to obtain a certain prescription.

Usage:

This stage mother was really coaching her 9-year-old son to get that Riddlin script. Mother's little helper.

Created Feb 09, 2010

Definition:

A patient whose luck is very good.

Usage:

The odds were long, but he's a winner.

Created Feb 11, 2010