There are humans in an ER and humans are fucking stupid, so yes it could. The US is a silly place so people just instantly react to the word "gun" with thoughts of mass shootings.
it's faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we'd shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.
It's quicker to write/type the abbreviation, so syllables don't matter. Most common example of more syllables in the abbreviation than the words themselves is "WWW" (9 syllables) for "World Wide Web" (3 syllables). Quicker to type but longer to speak.
While we're at it, I never understood why the convention for domain name wasn't left to right tld, domain, subdomain. Most significant on left is how we do almost everything else, including numbers and ISO 8601 dates.
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Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 71 pts · 219d
You can yell GSW across a crowded room and not cause a panic like yelling "GUN SHOT wound" might.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -37 pts · 219d
I’d think that in an emergency room, it wouldn’t be that out of place to cause panic.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 79 pts · 219d
Then you'd think wrong.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -10 pts · 219d
So, what you’re saying is that the word “gun shot wound” would cause a panic….. in an ER.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 32 pts · 219d
There are humans in an ER and humans are fucking stupid, so yes it could. The US is a silly place so people just instantly react to the word "gun" with thoughts of mass shootings.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 219d
Yeah, I wonder why we do that... Guess we'll never know
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 219d
Thats what i mean by "the US is a silly place", meaning mass shootings are daily occurrences.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 219d
so you just gonna ignore that dumb thing you previously said and pivot to something else
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -12 pts · 219d
So you just gonna say I’m doing something I’m not doing just to have a reason to make some dumb edgy comment?
derekabutton@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 219d
Just pulling this out of my ass, but perhaps it's an artifact from handwritten medical charts. GSW is shorter to write.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 7 pts · 219d
Ooh! That’s probably it! I hadn’t thought of it that way.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
it's faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we'd shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 30 pts · 219d
Hospitals and ambulances do a lot of handwritten reports. In a conversation, the nurse/doctor/paramedic will say 'gunshot wound' but write it GSW.
Worked in public health and never heard anyone say 'GSW.'
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 7 pts · 219d
Could be that it’s a TV only thing. Been binging a lot of medical dramas lately.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 219d
New season of The Pitt coming out this week I think
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 219d
Tomorrow. I'm stoked.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 219d
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 15 pts · 219d
Abbreviations aren't just used to make a word quicker to say or write, but also to obfuscate.
Gluek@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
Dashing in a real rush, hurry, or else accident
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 219d
Wait until you learn about abbreviating the World Wide Web
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 3 pts · 219d
Is that a hospital term I’m unaware of?
ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 219d
www as in www.website.tld means "world wide web". Double-U double-U double-U uses 9 syllables when world wide web uses 3
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 1 pts · 219d
I’m aware of it.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 219d
It's quicker to write/type the abbreviation, so syllables don't matter. Most common example of more syllables in the abbreviation than the words themselves is "WWW" (9 syllables) for "World Wide Web" (3 syllables). Quicker to type but longer to speak.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 219d
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 219d
Because we must pay homage to mister World Wide himself, Pitbull, as we browse the internet.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Joke's on him, I'm putting my website at 305.domain.tld.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
While we're at it, I never understood why the convention for domain name wasn't left to right tld, domain, subdomain. Most significant on left is how we do almost everything else, including numbers and ISO 8601 dates.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 2 pts · 219d
Yep. I think this his the answer. Hadn’t thought of it being abbreviated as written, then spoken as the written shorthand.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
I saw Stephen Fry suggest once that it be pronounced "Wuh Wuh Wuh" which I kind of like :-)
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 219d
Dub dub dub.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 219d
Gee ess dub dub sounds like a burger joint menu item.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
G S Dub.
It's also shorter to write.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 218d
Depends on the language you use. In the Netherlands W is pronounced as "wae" instead of "double you".
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 219d
I dont know why GWS is used , but there are a bunch of the medical abbreviations that are not intuitive to me.
ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth · 13 pts · 219d
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 219d
I thought pt meant patient?
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 218d
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 219d
Probably does
middleagerioter@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 218d
Is this a stupid ai question?
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 2 pts · 218d
My best guess is…. no, but you probably could have made it sound more human had you not bothered to ask to begin with.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 219d
How are you pronouncing those words? I get 6 and 3 syllables respectively.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 9 pts · 219d
Gun ¹ Shot ¹ Wound ¹ = 3
G ¹ S ¹ W ³ = 5
The letter “w” is three syllables.
Double ² and U ¹