{"product_id":"9781443416030_the-secret-language-of-doctors","title":"The Secret Language Of Doctors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of us have visited the doctor or sat in the emergency room for long hours awaiting treatment. When we finally do reach the other side of the swinging doors, we enter into what seems like another world, with practitioners in white coats and scrub suits speeding from patient to patient, consulting with one another amid controlled chaos. Beneath the cacophony of medical equipment and routine codes announced over the loudspeaker, doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, usually out of earshot of their patients but sometimes in front of them. The words you'll learn in this book are not expressions that you'll likely find in a medical textbook or even hear on a television show. In fact, most health professionals would rather you didn't know that this underground language exists at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Language of Doctors\u003c\/em\u003e, bestselling author Dr. Brian Goldman pulls back the curtain to reveal some of medicine's darkest modern secrets, decoding the colourful and clandestine expressions doctors employ to describe difficult patients, situations and medical conditions—and sometimes even other colleagues. You'll discover what it means to exhibit the symptoms of \"incarceritis,\" what \"blocking\" and \"turfing\" are, and why you never want to be diagnosed with a \"horrendoma.\" In the process, you'll gain profound insight into what doctors \u003cem\u003ereally\u003c\/em\u003e think about their patients' personalities and even their chances of making it out of the hospital alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly accessible, biting, funny and entertaining, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Language of Doctors\u003c\/em\u003e reveals modern medical culture at its best and all too often at its worst.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian Goldman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101762797717,"sku":"9781443416030","price":4.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781443416030.png?v=1777422857","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781443416030_the-secret-language-of-doctors","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}