#and my silly brain took quite a while to stop seeing azithromycin and calling it azt. yes the letters are there. no the antibiotic isn't ART | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

frogeyedape · 4 months ago

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Omg and people two cubes down from you have no idea what your abbreviations and acronyms and special jargon are and sometimes you'll be talking with another professional in the field and *think* you're both using the same acronym but you're NOT.

No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.

#this is enough of a problem that at the big national conference i went to for work this year the us dshs had clearly instructed all the #presenters to say the full goddamn name and not just use the acronym. department of state health services (dshs said dishes)#health resources and services administration (hrsa said hersa)#and that's not even for the really particular acronyms & abbreviations lol #but it did have to be intelligible to people at all levels of expertise so. like i get it #but it didn't stop presenters from throwing AZT around! me mentally updating them: ZDV XD which is still not the full modern name #anyway azidothymidine (azt) aka zidovudine (zdv) brand name Retrovir was the first and for way too long only effective ART antiretroviral #therapy and is still used today especially to prevent mother-to-child HIV human immunodeficiency virus transmission but also in other uses #and my silly brain took quite a while to stop seeing azithromycin and calling it azt. yes the letters are there. no the antibiotic isn't ART #and DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY do not put such notes as “pt was administered AZT” when it was in fact azithromycin. oh but the abbreviation is #just sitting right there...so easy...NO. NOMENCLATURE CLARITY IN NOTES TO BE READ BY OTHERS. it is important.#meanwhile my team's dshs consultant be like argh yet another event note with random abbreviations #it's uh...it's hard not to use them...

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