to find the word "bloods" irritating?

[Joy27]

Every pregnancy appointment involves some talk of "taking your bloods"/ "I'll need some bloods from you" or similar.

It's not bloods, it's blood or "some blood" or "blood samples". You wouldn't say "look at those sheeps", unless you were three.

I know I am being a bit unreasonable, but it just seems lazy and the sound of it makes me want to poke myself in the eye.

No doubt there is some legit medical reason for it, and I am going to feel like a buffoon....

I have a friend who will say that her Ds's temperature 'spiked'. I want to scream every time.

I say spiked too

because it did

Yes that must be it shineon! Too much time on my hands

Everyone posting on MN has too much time on their hands, by definition. We could all be doing something else far more pressing/important.

Indeed edam

Yabu but then pedantry also makes me want to stick pins in my eye.
BloominNora if you plot the temp on a chart then it spikes. what's wrong with that? its an accurate description.

Pureascolddrivensnow - brufen is still brufen as well And why is a temp spiking so disagreeable ? (Bewildered HCP who has got to remember not to call people 'love' and must now add 'bloods, spikes and brufen to her list of irritating/offensive terms

It is presumably short for blood tests, and is a short cut / slang term used by those who talk of it day in, day out.

In my work we shorten 'tickets' to 'tix'...don't book or you'll end up blind in the other eye!

Another one here who can't stand medispeak from non medical personnel. My sil had a premature baby, and for the first 2 years of his life bil constantly referred to him as being 'prem' 'oh you've got to remember he was 'prem' etc...how I ever restrained myself from grabbing him by the back of the head and smashing his head repeatedly on a nearby hard surface I'll never know......(breathe, think c...a...l...m.....!)

ahh yes and MIL always says "when i went down for my OP"
she never went down any where and its an operation, not an "OP"

irritates the tits off me.
Totally unreasonable in my case, but these little things can get right on your nerve endings cant they

Not a good example I realise as that's not strictly medispeak, but I echo the others too. He is a total twat, in my defense, and has now started training as a paramedic, thank goodness he lives 300 miles away and I only have to see him once a year!

Bloods is short for blood tests.

Medical people use loads of jargon

I think I probably speak in medical jargon some of the time too but have been married to dh since he was a medical student and you kind of just get used to it.

the one we do try to avoid is referring to 'medicine' as 'drugs' as that does often make people go .

And my ds's temperature spikes. Every time!

PMSL at sunburnttats MIL 'never going down anywhere'!

Omg brufen. I had no idea that was a real word, I thought the nurse I saw recently had a speech impediment and couldn't say 'ibruprofen'.

I feel a bit silly now.

My mum says brufen and I always assumed she was just slightly confused by the word ibuprofen. She used to be a HCP too so no wonder she uses the old-school word for it.

I concur with bloods and being bled though. I was asked once if I'd ever been bled before, I was tempted to say that I'm not a fecking radiator.

I thought bloods were gangsters!

claw- arf. Next time I'll say "you may say you can take my bloods, but I could take your Crips".

(Please note am not being un-PC, Crips is the name of the rival gang to the Bloods. Yo.)

Im feeling you Joy!

Tell that nurse you'll bust a cap in her ass next time she asks to take your bloods.

Blimey. I've spent a lot of time as a patient over the past few years and I use a lot of medical slang because that's what's been used to me. It's easy and quick. That's why we use any slang, jargon or shorthand.

I can't believe people are irritated by those who have been patients or had children as patients picking up the terms as they go along.

Brufen used to be a brand so I would of thought its ok to use. I havn't heard it used much and would think the person was referring that and not that they were using shorthand for Ibuprofen

Worse than prem is preemie

Look, I get it- shorthand is easy.
But "bloods" is not shorthand. Unless "blood tests" is really too much of a mouthful. Really? It actually takes around the same amount of time to say as the so-called shorthand, unlike "gynaecology" or "paediatrics" or similar.

And I don't have a problem with medical jargon in general (and now stand corrected on brufen). I just think "bloods" sounds grim, for some reason.

An ex-colleague used to say 'ibrufen', but that was because she actually couldn't say ibuprofen properly, as opposed to the folk who stll use the old brand name.

'Bloods' is annoying, regardless of whether it's technically correct.

I see nothing wrong with 'temperature spike' though.

Reminds me of having 'bloods' taken by the very familiar nurse who I had often seen before with DDs for immunisations, impetigo etc.
Had a child with me who I was reassuring and said the nurse was just going to take a little bit of mummy's blood... blah, blah when the nurse broke in an said, rather tetchily, 'I am not a nurse I am a phlebotomist'
Oooooer.