WORD OF THE DAY #3.

VOMICKING​

In the same vein as ambalamps, this one comes to you courtesy of God knows who. 
I know this is only personal experience, but I'm going to go with 75-85% percent of all of my patients use this word.  How unbelievable is that?  I always assumed that even those with basic, grade school education would have seen the word spelled on a chalkboard or written in a book hundreds of times. Throw in television, which oftentimes is babysitter and teacher for a lot of underprivileged children, and I have to assume that a person has been exposed to the word vomit well over a thousand times, if not more. 

Patient: I been vomicking all day. 
Dr. Z: Vomiting? How many times? 
Patient: Yeah, vomicking. I vomicked when I got here too. 
Dr. Z: And did you have any diarrhea? Or was it just... was it just... 
Patient: Just vomicking.
Dr. Z: Have you been able to eat or drink anything?
Patient:  Nope. I just been vomicking too much. 

So how does this come about? Who knows. Really, who cares. One thing I do know, though, is that I will attempt to make them say vomick as many times as possible during our conversation, a la "Meow" in Super Troopers. Hey, if you can't have fun at your job, then what's the point?​