Vernacular | Life in the Fast Lane

September 2, 2010

Odentophagia

August 18, 2010 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Procrastination and Neologisation met in a bar. Eponyms and retrodiction lay idle as they were enveloped by the dankness of stagnant learning, draped in the predilection of Morpheus. They begat an heir ‘Odentophagia’

Filed Under: Arcanum Veritas, Featured, Gastroenterology, Literary Medicine, Medical Humor, Medical Semantics, Novologism, Philosophy, Vernacular, What the Tagged With: neologism, novologism, Odentophagia

Where should I stick this?

May 4, 2010 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Blogging, tweeting and online social communication has taken a back seat as I write the next editions of the medical textbooks. Researching the material for the texts is fun, but not as enjoyable as collaborating in the medical blogosphere.

Filed Under: Authors, Blog News, Education, Featured, Health, Medical Humor, Medical Semantics, Procedure, Quotations, Vernacular Tagged With: ICC chest drain, Medical Humor, semantics, trocar, trochar

Aussie Jingle Bells

December 5, 2009 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

With the festive season upon us, the Life in The Fast Lane team would like to share an Aussie Christmas favourite. This ‘carol‘ embraces the passion of the Aussie lifestyle and lifts the spirits in 40 degree heat in a way snow laden caricatures cannot… [youtube S9NhL3agUaw] Dashing through the bush In a rusty Holden [...]

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Vernacular, Video Tagged With: australiana, christmas, holden ute, jingle bells

Freudian Slap

November 5, 2009 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Overnight I was confronted by an angry and aggressive middle-aged male weighing 183kg (400lb). His behaviour was intolerable, exemplified by a tirade of rude and inappropriate comments to the nursing staff and failure to use a mandated receptacle to contain his urethral eliminations (choosing instead to graphically represent his apellation on the cubicle wall from over his bed-rails)

Filed Under: Literary Medicine, Medical History, Medical Humor, Medical Semantics, Novologism, Vernacular Tagged With: freudian slap, neologism, novologism, obesive

Sickening grammar

October 11, 2009 By Chris Nickson View Comments

In the world of medicine there has been a grammatical battle raging for what seems an eternity. “Who are the warring parties?”, you ask.

On one side are those that say “nauseating”, and on the the other, those that say “nauseous”.

Filed Under: Education, Medical History, Medical Semantics, Vernacular Tagged With: grammar, language, nauseating, nauseous

PFO and the consequences

March 16, 2009 By Chris Nickson View Comments

“PFO”…”Not another TLA”, I hear you groan… PFO is a three letter acronym that stands for “pissed, fell over“… A disturbingly frequent presenting complaint to emergency departments around the world. Here’s a bar chart showing the pattern of injuries that result from PFOs, according to blood alcohol concentration: The bottom line according to @precordialthump: At [...]

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Education, Emergency Medicine, Medical Humor, Toxicology, Trauma, Vernacular Tagged With: alcohol, PFO, TLA

Is Twitter the essential Blogging nutrient?

January 18, 2009 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Prompted by a series of conversational musings and twitterings the concept of a ‘blogging ecosystem’ became apparent. With the ‘blogging host’ as the primary producer and ‘blog posts’ as distribution seeds – I went in search of the other energy sources necessary to create a fit, healthy and viable blog.

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Education, Featured, Networking, Social Media, Twitter, Vernacular, Web 2.0, Web Culture, eLearning, lecture notes Tagged With: blog, blogging, dipty, ecosystem, friendfeed, nutrient, swurl, Twitter

Z is for

November 22, 2008 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Austrian vernacular or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter Z

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Dictionary, Medical Semantics, Vernacular Tagged With: Ausenclature, aussie medical dictionary, Vernacular, z is for

Y is for

November 22, 2008 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Austrian vernacular or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter Y

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Dictionary, Medical Semantics, Vernacular Tagged With: Ausenclature, aussie medical dictionary, y is for, yakka, yowie

X is for

November 22, 2008 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter X

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Dictionary, Medical Semantics, Vernacular Tagged With: Ausenclature, aussie medical dictionary, x is for, XXXX

W is for

November 21, 2008 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter W

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Dictionary, Medical Semantics, Vernacular, Video Tagged With: Ausenclature, aussie medical dictionary, w is for, warney, wedgie, wog, woop woop

V is for

November 20, 2008 By Mike Cadogan View Comments

Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter V
Verandah [over the toy shop]
A man’s beer belly
‘Toy shop’ is a joking term for the male genitals