#gallows-humour

Good Looking Mum — the discreet chart note for an attractive mother on the paeds ward.

A patient turning up with a bizarre injury and an even more bizarre story to explain it.

Lights On But Nobody Home — patient who looks awake but isn't really there.

Hospital slang for a motorcycle — a reliable pipeline of fresh organ donors.

British medical acronym: Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt.

Good for Parts Only — the patient who's not going to make it but could save several others.

Failure To Die — the frail, dying patient who somehow keeps not dying.