Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Medicaster
A medicaster is a medical charlatan or, in other words, a quack. I thoroughly enjoyed the meanings on the blog today and had a much needed laugh. My favourite was the winner on the poll - written by Sonnjea B. In fact, I think it's the funniest invented meaning I've ever seen on the blog and I've shared it will lots of people. So, thank you for that, Sonnjea.
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The Medicaster is sort of like a Magic 8 ball that every doctor gets upon graduation from medical school. It has responses like "6 months to live" or "All better!" or "It's a girl", and the doctor refers to his or her Medicaster when diagnosing a patient or assessing their prognosis.
What? You didn't think they actually read all those reports and tests, did you?
The person who puts on casts in the ER
The person who puts on casts in the ER
We all know a medicaster. A medicaster is the person who when you are telling a medical story, they ALWAYS either know someone who had the same thing, but even worse, or themselves have had the same thing, but of course it was always more dramatic and life-threatening than yours.
A Medicaster is the person who is responsible for casting actors into roles in shows such as ER, Greys Anatomy, General Hospital etc, etc, etc.
I had to happen sooner or later. Satellite TV with hundreds of channels has not only given us Newscasters, Sportscasters, Forecasters and Stockcasters, but now, the latest on the Medical front brought to you by your favorite "Medicaster". Someone, please get me an aspirin.
It's a device for sprinkling doctors over strawberries. There's one on display with the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. It's gold and encrusted with emeralds the size of cocktail cherries.
A Medicaster is the method that hypochondriac uses to find the disorder that they complain about.
"John spent hours looking at medical dictionaries to medicast his lastest symptom."
When confirming a diagnosis or multiple diagnoses, the doctor is thrust in the role of the "medicaster." This is when the patient and/or the relatives ask the doctor all kinds of questions about the patient's prognosis. When will the patient be able to go home? How long will it take? When will it be best to operate? Even doctors can't always predict the outcome of a diagnosis. If they are "medicasters" then it could be like meteorologists with their weather forecasts-not always as accurate.
Medicasters are the wheels on the bottom of hospital trays. Medicasters often do not roll very well.
A nonsense word used to fulfill rhyme and metrical functions in limericks.
There once was a true medicaster
Who always looked a disaster.
She always said yes
And wore her best dress
On dates, if anyone asked her.
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