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4/389 When nurses say "get me xyz, stat!" what does stat mean? Is it an abbreviation or acronym? \_ http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mstat.html \_ you can't use google, huh? \_ what ever happened to your Berkeley pride? I guess google is just too good that we are willing to stoop down to use a stanford made search engine. \_ Berkeley pride? Hello? It's just a GPA and a piece of paper. The alumni association won't help you afterwards unless you consider endless appeals for cash a form of "help" and a good way to express "pride". \_ That's why I use http://av.com. At least its not like selling out the the farm. \_ google doesn't have intelligent speech processing like the motd. the motd is, however, quite slow and prone to insult its users. all in all it balances out. ok so i tried google and it said it was for "statum." google: 1 motd: 0 \_ What does "statum" mean? Is it an abbreviation or acroynm? \_ beats me. latin for ASAP? \_ is that some kind of funky acronym? |
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www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mstat.html From Cecil's Mailbag by the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board Why do doctors say "stat"? Dear Straight Dope: I was just wondering, why do doctors say "stat" when they want something done quickly? Is it an abbreviation, an acronym, or just one of those many made up words that doctors use to feel smarter than the rest of us? I mean, doctors couldn't say "quick" or "now" or something like that? However, we have it on good authority that this is not simply an invention of the scriptwriters for "ER," and that doctors actually do say it. SDSTAFF Hawk, who spends a lot of time hanging around in hospitals, says he's noticed that younger doctors tend to dispense with tradition and just say "now," a trend toward clarity of medical expression that we're sure won't last long. |
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