Today I shadowed a physiatrist, a doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. I learned a bunch of technical terms from him, my favorite being "ridiculopathy". Ridiculopathy. As in, from the Latin "ridiculus" (laughable) and Greek "pathos" (suffering).
Only just now I Googled "ridiculopathy" and found out the actual term is "radiculopathy".
Lame. I like ridiculopathy better.
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