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General Slang
Flea
· noun · medical
Surgeon's pejorative for an internist.
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What surgeons call internal-medicine doctors. The stereotype: an internist will trail after a dying patient ordering more bloods and rare-disease workups, while the surgeon wants to cut, fix and discharge. Said with eye-roll affection between specialties that need each other and resent it.
“The fleas have been circling this guy for three days — somebody just take out the gallbladder already.”
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Flea In A Sentence
The fleas have been circling this guy for three days — somebody just take out the gallbladder already.
Origin & Usage
Folk etymology: 'the last thing to leave a dying dog is the flea' — a dig at internists for sticking with hopeless cases and ordering one more lab. The backronym 'Fucking Little Esoteric Asshole' is almost certainly invented after the fact.
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