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...domestic affairs than foreign policy. Asked about health insurance at a house party in Middletown, he said he was very interested in the universal plan recently passed in Massachusetts. "If everybody's covered, you'll find fewer people going to sick bay." He stopped, trying to renavigate into civilian lingo. "You don't call it sick bay, it's ..." The crowd shouted in unison, "The emergency room!" He began to laugh and said, "Well, it's been 31 years...
...Code" is medical resident lingo for emergency resuscitation team response. Different hospitals use different names; some use numbers, some colors, but they are all ways of instantly telling the people who work there, without scaring patients and visitors, that there's an emergency. Code red is typically a fire in the hospital; code blue is cardiac arrest. I was three weeks out of medical school, a brand new surgical intern (that is, a first-year resident) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, when my days and nights began to be punctuated by the heady rush of codes...
...memory flashed. He swiveled his chair to a box he had yet to unpack and fished out the King manual. Looking at the article and the manual side by side, Durrenberger, 29, was "flabbergasted" to note that 16 of Swanson's 33 rules were in fact King's--rusty lingo and all. "Bill Swanson of Raytheon is a plagiarist!" Durrenberger blasted on his blog...
...dinners. Vino’s Law School website describes the latter event as “an opportunity for members to learn how to pair food with wine, as well as a time for enjoying the pleasure that fine food, wine, and conversation bring.”LEARNING THE LINGO The Crimson attended one such Vino event last month, an evening filled with Italian varietals, nose evaluation, and excessive swirling. Arcane terminology peppered the night, as Brown and more experienced wine-tasters instructed their peers in the art of speaking wine. Commenting on the first wine of the evening, Brown...
Historically, Harvard’s official search committees have only turned to student and faculty bodies in perfunctory consultations. This tradition lies in stark contrast to the modern norm of comprehensive search committees, which in Harvard-lingo would include Corporation members, Overseers, faculty, staff, and students dealing with the nitty-gritty of the search process; the Corporation’s final seal of approval (as a solo act, that is) would become the perfunctory gesture, rubber stamping the collaborative process it had been forced to engage...