Nurses often have a language of their own and it’s not meant to harm.
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This comment was by Kristina Hammer in reference to the post – The Doctors Told My Friend His Son had ‘Wimpy White boy Syndrome’
As a former NICU/SCN staff member I can assure you that it is an endearing term used by us because of the facts behind it.
Caucasian males are the weakest at birth when no other genetic or malformation conditions are present. They tend to be shallow breathers and have extremely high blood sugar levels causing an overnight stay in the observation nursery. We used to call that nursery “The Locker Room” because it was almost always boys, and predominantly white at that, only.
See, what the general public doesn’t understand is, in the medical setting, we don’t have time to speak in complete sentences and be politically correct, especially when we know the facts behind the topic at hand, so we create our own shorthand language to get the job done efficiently.
This just happens to be one of our slang terms and wasn’t meant to be construed as anything but that.
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