7/2017
My mentor in graduate school did his best to talk me out of going to medical school. He would say, “You are going to have to learn Latin and memorize a bunch of drug names and stuff. You should stay in academia and pursue a career that is interesting.”
Learn Latin I did, kind of. Latin is easy. You can break down the word into parts and a lot of the parts are interchangeable. So once you learn a part, you know part of a lot of other words. Make sense? For Example, hypo appended to the front of a word means low. Like hypotension or low blood pressure. gonado refers to the sexual organs or gonads, specifically the ovaries in women or the testicles in men. tropo means to develop or enhance the effect of something and enia means low or an insufficient amount of something. See, clear as mud.
I like to make my own diagnoses, rather make up my own diagnoses.
Gonadotropenia. This applies to someone that needs to grow some balls and quit whining. This was prompted by a patient that called the ambulance to come to the ED because of a sore throat, for the third time this week.
From your 30 years weary Uncle/Brother Dave.
Weary.