Drug Names

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Mark Hedberg — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:12:56 GMT

[quote user="salome2001"]

Currently I have a cat with diabetes (and possibly acromegaly) owned by a lovely couple... not sure why you would call your cat "Mongo" in the first place (Flash Gordon fans??) but especially if your surname is "Lloyd"...

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Blazing Saddles, actually! :)

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salome2001 — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:50:20 GMT

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Gillian Mostyn — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:14:33 GMT

haha Derek - after all these years knowing you I've never actually thought of that!

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Derek Lyon — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:12:19 GMT

Think about my delema...My name is Lyon and worked at a Zoo...April Fools Day was a nightmare. Even my wife could not get through to me by phone!

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:28:38 GMT

I'm probably very innocent, but you are leaving me behind now.

PS I always get someone else to call them in from the waiting room, thus avoiding potential embarrassments, not only of the nature that I suppose is outlined above, but also of the nature of calling Mrs. Smith but looking straight past her because I don't recognise her although she's been coming for twenty-five years.............................

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Robert Wilson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:49:50 GMT

How about (and I kid you not) a ginger cat called "Minge".... !! I thought "This cannot be!" and called for "Ming" in the waiting room (expecting a Siamese) bit no...... I was told that the cat's name was indeed Minge. "So what is up with your Minge today?"

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Laurence Webb — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:13:30 GMT

Not an animal name, but last weekend I was at Morrisons in Weston Super Mare. In the foyer is a sign with the 'important people's names. Beside this is the pharmacy.

2nd or 3rd down on the list was the till manager - Laura Pothecary.

My brother in law is the store manager - I wonder if it's within his power to move her into the pharmacy.

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Rob Reid — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:17:18 GMT

We have a cat in our practice called Spandex owned by a Miss Burns (sadly she has just married so will be Mrs Bainbridge and won't be funny any longer! )

My wife used to have a French client come into her practice called Mrs Gache. She had a cat called Fluffy.

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Peter Ding — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:40:20 GMT

Until recently I had an old Labrador called Ben: no wonder he had spondylosis!

I've still got his bother Bill, who is as expected thriving.

Both true.

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Rob Davis — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:33:56 GMT

I used to see a rabbit called Mr Bun, unfortunately his owner's surname was Crack....

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Thomas Johnson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:11:05 GMT

My all time favourite was a guinea pig owned by Mr and Mrx Cox, they obviously hadn't thought before calling it 'Nibbles'.

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Alice Courtney — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:21:05 GMT

We have a client whose cat is called 'Pussylips'. There is no explaining that one...Why, oh why, would you do that??

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Gillian Mostyn — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:45:55 GMT

We had a lovely patient called Jenna. Owner Mrs Taylor.

She ended up with an insulinoma and needed lots of blood tests - I did expect a lab to query the name at some point but no one ever did!

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Andrew Mellor — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:59:24 GMT

Best current patient /client combination is Dusty Shufflebottom , and she had not put the two together before either !

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Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:59:57 GMT

Alex Yes

Jane Can we expect your son to be a future head of CID ?

Wynne

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Louise6732 — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:47:49 GMT

I saw a cat called 'Whiskey' Staines for a booster this week, lifts your mood when you're having a bad day!

Louise

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Noweia — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:00:34 GMT

[quote user="alex gough"]There is a long running feature in New Scientist on the subject of nominative determinisim, the theory that one's name shapes one's future career. For example Dr Overy the gynaecologist. I also have a book called Brain's diseases of the nervous system by Dr Brain. I got my best example published in New Scientist however, Dr Tranquilli, the veterinary anaesthetist

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Not forgetting Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy, by Dyce. (Also Sack and Wensing, but they aren't as funny!)

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Mark Frost — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:52:11 GMT

A few months ago we had a run...

'Cookin' Potts
'Woody' Willey
'Muffin' Mycock
'Mister' Perfect

All within a few days... unfortunately when I called in Mister Perfect, Mrs Perfect told me her husband had died a few months back, 'Mister' was a stray that turned up a few days later and she'd called him Mister Stray but shortened it to Mister when she registered him.. Wasn't sure what to say to that!

Along different lines my boss saw a client recently who'd lost a lot of weight and complimented her on it, only to be told she'd had a viral diarrhoea for the last few months and it had first occurred acutely whilst doing a presentation when she'd soiled herself in front of everyone. FAR too much information...

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Malcolm Ness — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:15:27 GMT

[quote user="alex gough"]I presume you are referring to Everard?[/quote]

I had the pleasure of working for Dr Ev Cock in Zimbabwe in the early 80's. At that time he was in his early sixties and running a wife and a mistress conconcurrently. Subsequently, he has moved in with a different lady. Perhaps there is something to nominative determinism!

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Laurence Webb — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:48:39 GMT

[quote user="Andrew Henfrey"]A few months ago we saw Mrs Cox with Frosty [/quote]

Only this week I was berated for being childish by a nurse for smirking about Mrs Cox coming in with her cat Woody

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Laurence Webb — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:47:11 GMT

I used to work with a nurse whose surname was Janus. She's since had children - I sincerely hope she didn't name any of them Hugh.

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Andrew Henfrey — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:44:00 GMT

A few months ago we saw Mrs Cox with Frosty who had never linked the two names together until one of us called iy out in the waiting room. Only last week we had "Rustie Dick" and "Scrappy Bush" booked in.

A few years ago I saw a cat with urolithiasis called Pebbles Stone- that must have been nominative determinism!

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Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:30:30 GMT

[quote user="Jane Dunnett"]If I have a son I fully intend calling him Hugh.[/quote]

That's made my day! Priceless.

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bob lehner — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:46:29 GMT

[quote user="Mark Holmes"]Client: Mr Firm. Dog .... A Rottie called Titan. Call that out in a waiting room![/quote]

We had a lady vet who always called in her next appointment by shouting out the pet's name followed by owner's surname. Some tittering from receptionists when on a very snowy January day she called for Mr Balls with his westie ''Frosty'.

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jd2008 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:31:08 GMT

If I have a son I fully intend calling him Hugh.