Rhoeri@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoWhy in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' abbreviated as "GSW"-message-squaremessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareWhy in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' abbreviated as "GSW"-Rhoeri@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square41linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71arrow-down1·2 months agoYou can yell GSW across a crowded room and not cause a panic like yelling “GUN SHOT wound” might.
minus-squareRhoeri@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down40·2 months agoI’d think that in an emergency room, it wouldn’t be that out of place to cause panic.
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down2·2 months agoThen you’d think wrong.
minus-squareRhoeri@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down12·2 months agoSo, what you’re saying is that the word “gun shot wound” would cause a panic…… in an ER.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up31·2 months agoThere 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-up4·2 months agoYeah, I wonder why we do that… Guess we’ll never know
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThats what i mean by “the US is a silly place”, meaning mass shootings are daily occurrences.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-215 days agoRemoved by mod
minus-squareRhoeri@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down13·2 months agoSo 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.
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So you just gonna say I’m doing something I’m not doing just to have a reason to make some dumb edgy comment?