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General Slang
GOMER
· noun · medical
Get Out of My Emergency Room — the old, chronic, hopeless patient ER docs dread.
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Hospital acronym for 'Get Out of My Emergency Room.' Aimed at the elderly, demented, often non-communicative patient who keeps rolling through the doors with a pile of chronic conditions nothing can really fix. Cruel, weary, deeply gallows. Popularised by Samuel Shem's 1978 novel 'The House of God', though Shem said it was already kicking around Boston wards by the early 70s.
“ER's full of GOMERs again — three nursing home transfers before lunch.”
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GOMER In A Sentence
ER's full of GOMERs again — three nursing home transfers before lunch.
Origin & Usage
American hospital slang, in use by early 1970s. Burned into the medical vocabulary by Samuel Shem's 'The House of God' (1978). Female form: GOMERE.
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