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[waterspyder]

Is it wrong that when my co-workers ask me things like

"Is 'Metacarpal' a type of medication?"

I want to say 

"Only if you want it to be?"


(I have also been asked if 'tournequet' and 'hemodialysis' are medications too)

Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

You work with special people.

[aurorajackson.livejournal.com]

I...I....

Wow, I thought I would have something to say, but that has truly rendered me speechless.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I could see "tourniquet" and "hemodialysis", actually. They can both be heard in contexts where it's not clear; in conversation or without illustrations, "apply a tourniquet" has no clues to indicate it is different from "apply an antibiotic", and "going in for hemodialysis" is not particularly different from "going in for Depoprovera".

"Metacarpal" surprises me, if only because I expect government office workers to have run across that one before. I guess Health doesn't get the office ergonomics bulletins that Industry did.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I also need to teach them how to ask questions.

Bad: "Is metacarpal a type of medication?"

Good: "What is a metacarpal?"

[slobberpuppy.livejournal.com]

Why do you werk with retards?!

I can't believe it!!!

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Health Canada Government Employees...

and just so you don't fret too much, these aren't the nurses asking these questions, just the other staff.

[parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com]

Still...

I am neither a nurse nor a Health Canada employee, yet I know what all three of those words mean.

An excellent office gift would be a medical dictionary -- then you could do what my father always did when I pestered him for answers as a small child, "Go look it up!".

To call your coworkers retarded gives serious insult to those with Down's Syndrome. So let's just call them assclowns.

[intothedepths.livejournal.com]

man

sounds like the guys I used to work with at the surplus store

[panthertriad.livejournal.com]

But but but but... *stutters then splutters*

You work at HEALTH Canada...

that's like someone at my place asking what an abstract is... after working there for 5 years... or... three days...

[purplezart.livejournal.com]

i wasn't aware that you had taken employment as a dictionary.

does it pay well?

[krueger.livejournal.com]

LOL

[corradus.livejournal.com]

Oh you could so totally have fun with the people you work with....I know I would.