Need help with medical jargon

[ashling]

I realize that sometimes a word or phrase in the jargon of a particular profession does not have the generally accepted meaning.

For instance, "fixer upper" to the uninitiated first tome house buyer means that a house needs a little fixing up, while to the selling relator in means "falling down, about to be condemned."

So, could somebody with some medical experience or doctor's office experience pleas give me the "professional" meaning of the term,
"I'll call you right back," because I am missing something here.
:shrug:

[gbate]

1. Could be anything.

Sorry. I work for a doctor. The only thing I can think of is that they need to get some test results back. It depends on what the conversation was about.

[ashling]

2. Sorry, I have edited to make it clearer

I accidentally put the close quotations in the wrong place.
On two different days, my wife had to leave a message for the nurse who called back because she didn't understand the message. When she sort of got what my wife was asking, she said "I'll call right back."

Now my dad was a doctor. He made house calls ... out in the country!

Sorry, don't mean to be going off on you. :)

After all, I get so few responses to my threads that I sure don't need to scare one off LOL

[gbate]

5. Ok, I understand now.

Not all doctors are idiots, but the ones I've seen and the one I work for is.

[ashling]

7. Actually, it was the nurse

Usually when we call the doctor we just get shunted off (notice my use of medical terminology LOL) to the nurse's voice mail. I just left a message on his personal voice mail letting him know how concerned I was.

When he saw my wife the other day about her migraines he indicated that a CAT scan was in order, but no follow up on that.
Our insurance company is jerking us around on Imitrex. They will only let you have 5 a month ! ! !

[supernova]

3. That's not medical jargon

that's "I'm not really ready to talk to you right now. I will have to get some information first, then call you back." And the getting of the info may take a while.

The only bad part of that is "right back." That's not really true, even if the person is well-intentioned.

Also, she could have had several other patient problems that were more urgent. That often happens.

[Connonym]

4. why I just so happen to be a medical language specialist

that phrase means "I'm so much more important than you, you peon. Have you seen my McMansion and my trophy wife? Ha, I laugh in your face. I'll call you back whenever I damned well feel like it"

or some approximation of that

[ashling]

6. Thank you

For the directness of your interpretation.

:rofl: