The reason for medical technical jargon...

[jducoeur]

... is clearly to make conditions sound more dignified and interesting than they really are. In the case at hand, "extracting a Cerumen Impaction" sounds ever so much better than, "We removed a plug of earwax the size of a Tootsie Roll from each ear". But at least I can hear again. (And suddenly realize that my hearing's only been around 70% for months now...)

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Re: Jargon

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

It's all true. Mind, this was back in the 80's, when I bought USP-grade coke (legally) for 28 bucks an ounce. The story may have made msmemory giggle, but when I told a certain Martian commando who lived nearby at the time, it darn near made him cry %^). I doubt any ENT guys use coke solution any more; it's appreciated many orders of magnitude since then due to the "war on drugs" and the Afghanistan situation.

A sidebar to the story is that while he's shoving coke-bombs up my nose he's commenting to his residents that the patient is a pharmacist and asking me my opinions on the efficacy of the anesthetic. "Yeah, doc, my professional assessment is that...this is, like...awesome!"