Doctor slang is a dying art

Top medical acronyms:

• CTD - Circling the Drain (A patient expected to die soon)


• GLM - Good looking Mum


• GPO - Good for Parts Only


• TEETH - Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy


• UBI - Unexplained Beer Injury


• LOBNH - Lights On But Nobody Home


• CNS-QNS - Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient

and

"the term 'pumpkin positive', which refers to the implication that a penlight shone into the patient's mouth would encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up."

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