{"id":1668,"date":"2008-09-24T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/09\/24\/is_your_ubi_really_a_pgt\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:56:21","slug":"is_your_ubi_really_a_pgt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/09\/24\/is_your_ubi_really_a_pgt\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your UBI really a PGT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC website has a great article today about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/3159813.stm\">the dying art of medical slang<\/a>.<br \/>\nApparently, increasing rates of litigation are inhibiting doctors from scribbling such gems in their patient notes as TEETH (Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy) and TTFO (Told To, erm, go away, but passed off by one quick-thinking doctor as To Take Fluids Orally at a recent trial).<br \/>\nIncidentally, I thought my Essex-born, Norwich-bred friend was having me on when she told me about local doctors writing NFN (Normal For Norfolk) in their notes, but apparently not. Perhaps Dr Gee can advise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC website has a great article today about the dying art of medical slang. Apparently, increasing rates of litigation are inhibiting doctors from scribbling such gems in their patient notes as TEETH (Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy) and TTFO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/09\/24\/is_your_ubi_really_a_pgt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}