Internship is a new world out there, when it’s your waking up call, the bubble burst you feel of getting out into the world, where you have to study and work.
With new things that soon become old like blood Collections, iv, etc, you’re sure to learn some new words, very specific for your work environment, and sooner than you realise you become a part of it, with the Lingo soon a part of your tongue
1. BAD / Crash
When the condition of a patient is serious or is deteriorating.
Ex. Ye patient bad Horaha hai, intern me sone jaarahi isse monitor kr.
2. Trace
This word has a lot of power to induce terror in any intern’s heart. It is the sophisticated and highly skilled job of asking for reports that still don’t exist because they are yet to be processed , but an intern is a highly qualified superhero with power to bring it out of thin air.
Ex. Iska CT, MRI, USG, Xray, HBCBC, lft, rft,……….. Trace kar.
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3. Maaf Marna
This oxymoron can send you for a twist. Where one word, displays the power of forgiveness, the other doesn’t shy from supporting violence. If they say, English is a funny language, can hindi be far behind?
Maaf Marna is what your houseman, reg, lecturer, hou, hod and Co intern will use to denote you do ‘kaamchori’ or ‘aalsipan’ because even though internship is so interesting where you learn so many new things like collecting blood from different veins, how can you get bored?
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4. Extra hai / Tox dete hai/ Toxic
Aşk questions is what your teacher taught you, but you will meet some patients who were extremely diligent students and will not stop asking questions.
Doc kya hua? Doc isse kya khilae? Kitna khilae? Paani pilae? Kitna glass? Kitna padhai kar we? Aur Kitna pareshaan kare?
To do justice so such innovative questions, use innovation – ye relative bahut extra hai, bahut tox deta hai
5. IV out hai!
The phrase which can spark panic among interns waiting to run away from the ward. The scale of rating a nurse can be easily deduced by the number of times they say, ‘iska iv out hai’, with an inverse relation between between the likeability of the nurse and how many times ‘iv out hai’, she says.
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6. Bat karna
It’s literally batting where the patient is tossed from one department to the other or at times even from one hospital to the other, kyunki isme to wo department ke symptoms hai so holistic approach gaya tel lene.
7. Charas Karna /Pipe Karna
When the houseman/junior resident makes you do a lot of work, akin to getting a high because he lives in a delusional world where the intern is the servant (Wait, isn’t it the reality).
8. STAT
This has to be the most dreaded word. It means without delay!
‘Iska iv stat. Iska collection stat. Come here stat.
Come here if you have fever stat.
Come here even if you’re dying, Stat.’
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9. CL
CL, casual leave, which is granted to you but no one knows how many you can use at one time? Can you carry forward it? Can you use it in your repeat postings? No one knows, we definitely need an orientation regarding the usage of our CL.
Cl is the hope that someone out there still cares about interns and have humanly given them holidays.
Eg. ‘Can I want use my CL in medicine posting’
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10. Femoral maar/ Radial maar/ Brachial maar
God forbid, when you don’t get any veins or when you need a large amount of blood or you have to do an abg, you need to rely on Femoral, Radial and Brachial. Since pricking them is like beating them, so ‘maar’. This is just my interpretation, God knows how did it originate, but it’s definitely going to stay.
11. P.S.Y
When you know the patient comes to the emergency room feigning symptoms and you know that they need a psychiatry referral but you need to put it subtly to your co-workers.
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Internship is a different experience altogether, different from the years you have studied.
It’s an exposure to different new experiences and languages, but the most common Lingo that you’ll hear everywhere, which will haunt you in your dreams, which will make you turn your head or make you still is one phrase, only and only,
‘AE INTAAAN!!’
This post has been written by Dr. Saad Ahmed who is an intern at Seth GS Medical College.
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