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Have you ever wondered what doctors and nurses are really saying as they zip through the emergency room and onto elevators, throwing cryptic phrases at one another? Or why they do it? Do you guess at the codes broadcast over the loudspeaker, or the words doctors and nurses use when speaking right in front of patients?
In The Secret Language of Doctors, bestselling author Dr. Brian Goldman opens up the book on the clandestine phrases doctors use to describe patients, situations and even colleagues they detest. He tells us what it means for someone to suffer from incarceritis, what doctors mean when they block and turf, what the various codes mean, and why you never want to suffer a horrendoma. Highly accessible, biting, funny and entertaining, The Secret Language of Doctors reveals modern medical culture at its best and all too often at its worst.
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For more than thirty years, Dr. Brian Goldman has been an active participant in and keen observer of the culture of modern medicine. Since 2007, he has hosted White Coat, Black Art, a multi-award-winning show on CBC Radio that reveals what goes on behind a hospital’s sliding doors. Goldman is the author of the bestselling The Night Shift and The Secret Language of Doctors. He lives in Toronto with his family.
“Goldman’s fascinating book is also a relentlessly honest one.” (Toronto Star)
“A veritable dictionary of verbal shorthand used by many physicians, nurses and other health professionals to discuss—and often diss—various types of patients and even their own colleagues.” (National Post)
“Disturbing and hilarious, sometimes concurrently.” (Winnipeg Free Press)
“A rare glimpse behind-the-scenes of Canada’s healthcare system.” (Chatelaine)
“The Secret Language of Doctors takes us behind the curtain and, in doing so, reveals fascinating insight on the practice of medicine, warts and all.” (André Picard, Health Columnist, The Globe and Mail)
“Essential for all of us who depend on doctors (quite literally) to help us live longer and better. Goldman writes in a fun, brisk, accessible style—and the tales he recounts are both funny and sobering. Goldman is, without qualification, the most interesting doc around.” (Warren Kinsella)
“A veritable dictionary of verbal shorthand used by many physicians, nurses and other health professionals to discuss—and often diss—various types of patients and even their own colleagues.” (National Post)
“Disturbing and hilarious, sometimes concurrently.” (Winnipeg Free Press)
“A rare glimpse behind-the-scenes of Canada’s healthcare system.” (Chatelaine)
“The Secret Language of Doctors takes us behind the curtain and, in doing so, reveals fascinating insight on the practice of medicine, warts and all.” (André Picard, Health Columnist, The Globe and Mail)
“Essential for all of us who depend on doctors (quite literally) to help us live longer and better. Goldman writes in a fun, brisk, accessible style—and the tales he recounts are both funny and sobering. Goldman is, without qualification, the most interesting doc around.” (Warren Kinsella)
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- Publication date2014
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