[Recycled from 31 July 2004]
Working a couple of different jobs on the fringes of medicine, I have picked up a reasonable amount of technical vocabulary.
But even people who don't have my medical background are surprised when I tell them that I recently saw an "educational" document, written for distribution to caregivers, which referred to the intermittent breathing of people close to death as "chain-stoking".
Dr. Cheyne (1818) and Dr. Stokes (1854) must be rolling over in their graves.
(thanks to for whonamedit.com background information)
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