My boyfriend works in the ED (Emergency Department).
At work, sometimes I need to purge information (clear out).
There is a lot of terminology used in the eating disorder world, and it’s funny how it still catches me off-guard when similar acronyms / terminology is used in the real world.
BP: Binge/Purge — or a gas station
AN: Anorexia Nervosa — or atomic number (that was always weird to see on paper in chemistry)
BED: Binge Eating Disorder — or Bachelor of Education
OD: Overdose — or overdue
And one of these days I’ll compile a comprehensive ED Glossary… but for now, a couple of terms that I’d like to add to the regular N, T, ED etc.:
ortho: orthostatic hypotension
MP: meal plan
DC: diet coke (maybe not universally recognized)
episode: binge/purge
MFG: multi-family group (therapy)
CS: combination snack
HNC: honey nut cheerios (okay, so this probably won’t make my “official” glossary, but I used to use this abbreviation all the time)
traz: trazodone (sleeping med)
DP: diet pills
lax: laxatives
BR: bedrest
log: food log/journal
exchanges: dietary exchanges (used for meal planning)
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» ED terms in the real world says:
Aug 1, 2008
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Aug 1, 2008
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jfs says:
Aug 1, 2008
I love how we think so much alike that I didn’t need your definition for any of those
elizabeth says:
Aug 2, 2008
these are always catching me off guard too. It’s so funny how your brain gets wired to associate with completely different things than the rest of the common world.
Ai Lu says:
Aug 3, 2008
Or there’s always ED = erectile dysfunction! (Not that we’d want to confuse it with this, either)
Grey House says:
Aug 4, 2008
As someone who wants to go into emergency medicine, I always feel so weird talking about the “ED” (emergency department) so I often refer to it by using the less PC term “ER”. I am also thinking about “ortho” (orthopaedics) so I guess I will just be forever tied to abbreviations with double meanings