Fwd: Medical slang

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:17 PM -0400 9/24/08, James Harbeck wrote:
>>From BBC News:
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>Doctor slang is a dying art
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>The inventive language created by doctors the world over to insult
>their patients-or each other-is in danger of becoming extinct.
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well, we know why some of them are dying out, e.g.

>GLM: Good-Looking Mum
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--Gresham's law again, where relatively innocent acronyms are pushed
out by their grosser competitors.

LH

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