"endorse" as medicalese for '(patient) report (symptom)'

[Wilson Gray]

How about "consult"?

"This call is to remind ... WILSON ... that he has a con-SULT pending ..."

"This call is to remind ... WILSON ... that he has a CON-sult pending ..."

"Con-SULT" is about ten times more commonly used than "CON-sult,"
though *I* would expect that "CON-sult" would be not only preferred,
but the only pronunciation used.

You never know.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've been forwarding the comments to my sister, who remarks:
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> Oh my goodness! A good 75% of this is over my head. All I know is,
> "endorses" as used doesn't match the definition of "endorse" as I
> understand it, and it makes me squirmy. We hear it used as, "The
> patient endorses homicidal ideation"--well, yeah, ain't it a good
> thing for everyone to consider once in a while? ARGHH.
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