to find the word "bloods" irritating?

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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....

oh yes tescos. It was named after mr cohens wife, Tessa Cohen. So going to Tessa Cohens' makes sense, ergo Tescos'

It's Messrs with one 'e'.

edam - typo younglady

love the word though.

tisk

I'd love to be addressed as a young lady IRL. Could choose whether to be flattered or really enjoy putting patronising person in their place, according to my mood.

Unlikely to happen unless someone forgets to put their contacts in, though.

edam, LOLS, same here.

I always type c section and paed, because they are a bugger to spell!

It's just medical shorthand for multiple blood tests.

Jeez, this really makes you want to poke yourself in the eye?

There are way way worse. 2 for example are "baba" and "preggers". Make me want to disembowel the speaker with a rusty spoon.

Bloods I'm fine with though, makes perfect sense to me.

I've been enjoying the banter on this thread, but there are some pretty bitchy people around here too.

I thought the point of AIBU was for lighthearted whinges, to start a bit of a debate, on the understanding that you're not saying your life is RUINED because someone says "bloods" or similar.

Just to clarify, I'm not going to literally poke myself in the eye. Of course I'm not. And I'm not spending large portions of my trivial time (which I have too much of) worrying about this.

You'd have to be pretty dense to think I seriously would be doing either of those things.

And I'd question how well you're spending your own time, if you've got enough of it to make barbed comments to strangers on the basis of knowing nothing about them.

(Disclaimer: Am very hormonal. Crying at adverts. Taking personal comments, well, personally)

It is medical speak as it ends up with different tests being carried out so when a Dr refers to "bloods" he's not thinking of red stuff in a vial but rather FBC, Hb, WBC, LFT, etc results. So referred to in the plural. Probably still an incorrect Americanism but afraid I say bloods.

But actually different types of wine can be called wines, so why not blood collected into different vials for different types of test? I think it is short for blood samples.

it's ok to be irritated by it though

Thanks roundededges

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welcome

I've been calling blood samples or test results "bloods" since I qualified and I'm really quite mature these days ( I practically predate ER!).

Brufen as stated above also exists because it used to be the trade name - same as "Trac" which is an anaesthetic special (Atracurium).

We do tend to shorten stuff probably becuase there are just so many long words to write down............

I have used up an entire biro in the past 7 days at work.

You can tell I'm an anaesthetist as my borderline obsessive personality means that I know that!

It's all relative isn't it - if there's not much wrong with you then you can of course have the luxury of fretting over the laziness of terms used. Those who are actually pretty sick tend to be more interested in the results of the tests - whatvere they were called!

bloodsy hell

I'm with chegirl on this one. If you are immersed in "medispeak", you do take it home.

And GP's are always if you say anything a bit medical, as if you are a holby city obsessive.
PMSL at munchausen's! So true!