Britishisms

Intern = House Officer
Resident = Registra
Attending = Consultant
Nurse = Sister
Medicaid/care = National Health Service (NHS)
Pompous Prick = Pompous Prick


EGD as in EsophagoGastroDuodenoscopy. I kept hearing them Brits make a blurp every now and again about OGD this and OGD that and here I was thinking that OGD must represent Oral-gastro-something when it meant EGD because they spell Esophagus as OEsophagus! Killed me.

During surgery, no one wears a mask except the surgeons and the scrub nurses. Needless to say that they laughed at me when I asked for a mask and all I did was stand at the sidelines and cheered.

How are you doing? = Hello (because they aren't really asking how you are doing; they're just exchanging polite
pleasantries so if your day is horrible, don't overload the British sensibilities by saying
how bad your day was, unless you're a very good friend).

Hello = Yes, I'm here.
Here's an example to illustrate the above.
Surgeon is performing surgery.
Enter nurse who is confirming the cancellation of a case. The nurse walks away into the foyer outside the surgery suite.
Surgeon yells: "Sister!" because he has forgotten to ask her something else.
"Hello?" she replies.

You gown and glove yourself in sterile fashion.
There are no foot operated faucets so when a surgeon finishes washing his hands, he shuts off the faucets with the back of his hands......?

Wards = Floor
Ground Floor = We don't have one. Our elevators stop on the 1st floor
Lift = Elevator
Dinner = Lunch
Supper = Dinner


Britian's version of a Golf Cart on steroids with top speeds of 80 miles/hour

"You should come over for tea" usually means "It was nice to have met you, have a good life, goodbye".
I guess it is similar to our "we should do this again sometime" where the "sometime" is some indefinite date in the distant future.