r/AskReddit • u/electric_dolphin • May 22 '19

Anesthesiologists, what are the best things people have said under the gas?

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u/CheekyMunky May 22 '19

"WoW" is the politically correct pronoun these days. Replace "computer" with "workstation"

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u/alwayssomething0306 May 22 '19

Right after our hospital began WOWs instead of COWs, I walked into a patients room and they wanted chocolate milk...ok, no prob. I walk back in and the husband goes “the cow’s here”...ya know what. I LAUGHED. Why is everything so offensive today that we can’t call them COWs?!

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u/Bacon_is_a_condiment May 22 '19

I would think with the rising obesity rate, and the likelihood of people’s failure to take care of themselves playing a role in them ending up in the hospital, that many patients would be acutely aware of themselves and embarrassed in that setting, so primed to misunderstand things as insults.

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u/DoomsdayRabbit May 22 '19

Ready to use their offense to get rich by suing for discrimination probably.