Rhoeri@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 天前Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' abbreviated as "GSW"-message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up154arrow-down1message-squareWhy in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' abbreviated as "GSW"-Rhoeri@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 天前message-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71arrow-down1·6 天前You can yell GSW across a crowded room and not cause a panic like yelling “GUN SHOT wound” might.
minus-squareRhoeri@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down40·6 天前I’d think that in an emergency room, it wouldn’t be that out of place to cause panic.
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80arrow-down2·6 天前Then you’d think wrong.
minus-squareRhoeri@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down12·edit-26 天前So, what you’re saying is that the word “gun shot wound” would cause a panic…… in an ER.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up31·6 天前There are humans in an ER and humans are fucking stupid, so yes it could. The US is a silly place so people just instantly react to the word “gun” with thoughts of mass shootings.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 天前Yeah, I wonder why we do that… Guess we’ll never know
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 天前Thats what i mean by “the US is a silly place”, meaning mass shootings are daily occurrences.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·6 天前so you just gonna ignore that dumb thing you previously said and pivot to something else
minus-squareRhoeri@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down13·6 天前So you just gonna say I’m doing something I’m not doing just to have a reason to make some dumb edgy comment?
You can yell GSW across a crowded room and not cause a panic like yelling “GUN SHOT wound” might.
I’d think that in an emergency room, it wouldn’t be that out of place to cause panic.
Then you’d think wrong.
So, what you’re saying is that the word “gun shot wound” would cause a panic…… in an ER.
There are humans in an ER and humans are fucking stupid, so yes it could. The US is a silly place so people just instantly react to the word “gun” with thoughts of mass shootings.
Yeah, I wonder why we do that… Guess we’ll never know
Thats what i mean by “the US is a silly place”, meaning mass shootings are daily occurrences.
so you just gonna ignore that dumb thing you previously said and pivot to something else
So you just gonna say I’m doing something I’m not doing just to have a reason to make some dumb edgy comment?