Safety expert Richard Hawk has compiled actual medical “definitions” used on medical reports. Suffice it to say, insurance companies and lawyers aren’t the only ones that know how to use “double speak.”
1. Mental activity at the margins: insanity
2. Therapeutic misadventure: medical malpractice
3. Hematophagous arthropod vectors: fleas
4. Aggravated bovine ejection: being bucked off by a bull
5. Negative Patient Care Outcome: death
6. Immediate Permanent Incapacitation: death
7. Chronologically Experienced Citizen: elderly person
8. Compensated Edentia: false teeth
9. Nutritional Avoidance Therapy: diet
10. Thermal Remediation Unit: ice bag
