Medical Abbreviations: A Case Study

I feel that it is very interesting finding medical abbreviation and finding their similarity to some order term. There are numerous of abbreviation that are similar to each other and some are very danger when the health team misunderstand them. There abbreviation are MG and mg. MG mean Myasthenia gravis and mg mean magnesium these two are dangerous because when the patient is being transfer to another room and there a written paper that says the patient has MG it could be misunderstand it as having mg. Therefore, the patient could be treated differently and causes injuries or even death. MED and med is another abbreviation that can cause harm to the patient when it is miscommunicated. MED minimum effective dose and med mean medial. When a doctor is performing a surgery and ask to give the patient a MED of a drug and it is miscommunicated as medial, the person giving the drug might give the patient half of the drug instead of giving it minimum effective dose. …show more content…
This could have different effects depending on the situation. If the patient was supposed to exercise before dinner, then dose it after dinner it could harm them and causes serious injuries to their health. It could also go toward taking medicine. When the doctor wrote ap and the patient did not understand it carefully. The patient might take it after dinner and that could mast the whole processing of treating the disease the patient is having. When using abbreviation in the medical field a simple mistake can cause a life of someone, therefore the medical team must be very careful using them. The health care facilities approved abbreviation list could be on the package that the worker have to study and pass the test every year to be able to