{"id":141,"date":"2005-12-18T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:33:21","slug":"more-disillusionment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"More Disillusionment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nataliesolent.blogspot.com\/2005_12_11_nataliesolent_archive.html#113453087063491980\">Natalie Solent<\/a> quote a reader who tells us more than most will ever want to know about the medical meaning of the word &#8216;fistula&#8217;. I found out what it meant twenty years ago when I temped for a day or two as a medical transcriptionist. I convinced them that my ability to recognize and spell just about any word derived from Latin and Greek would compensate for substandard typing speed. It did, though I had to consult my colleagues about a couple of terms that turned out to be French, including &#8216;bruits&#8217; (pronounced &#8216;brooeys&#8217;, not &#8216;broots&#8217;) which is some sort of sound made by the (healthy? unhealthy?) heart. Solent&#8217;s post reminded me that knowing the medical meaning of &#8216;fistula&#8217; has detracted from my pleasure in reading the less scurrilous genres of Latin verse, where <em>fistula<\/em> is frequent and means a shepherd&#8217;s pipe or pan-pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Solent quote a reader who tells us more than most will ever want to know about the medical meaning of the word &#8216;fistula&#8217;. I found out what it meant twenty years ago when I temped for a day or two as a medical transcriptionist. I convinced them that my ability to recognize and spell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}