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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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urgent/emergent operation

0Were it not for the doctor's urgent/emergent operaiton, the baby couldn't survive.02br
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0I don't know if the use of 01i 00emergent 02i 00meaning "having the nature of an emergency" (as opposed to "just beginning to emerge or appear") is new or not, but I was totally unaware of it until a few years ago when I heard it from a doctor. " An urgent problem can be treated tomorrow, but an emergent situation needs to be treated immediately. " In fact, I'm not sure if "emergent" can be applied to the operation at all -- I know a problem can be described as "emergent," but I'm not sure if the treatment would also be described that way.

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  • 0I don't know if the use of 01i 00emergent 02i 00meaning "having the nature of an emergency" (as opposed to "just beginning to emerge or appear") is new or not, but I was totally unaware of it until a few years ago when I heard it from a doctor.
  • " An urgent problem can be treated tomorrow, but an emergent situation needs to be treated immediately.
  • " In fact, I'm not sure if "emergent" can be applied to the operation at all -- I know a problem can be described as "emergent," but I'm not sure if the treatment would also be described that way.
  • 02br 02br 00Boy, I was sure a lot of help, wasn't I??
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0I don't know if the use of 01i00emergent 02i00meaning "having the nature of an emergency" (as opposed to "just beginning to emerge or appear") is new or not, but I was totally unaware of it until a few years ago when I heard it from a doctor. I believe that to a doctor, "emergent" is more serious than "urgent." An urgent problem can be treated tomorrow, but an emergent
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0Don't you think it was just a typo for emergency?0-
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0No, (unfortunately, in my opinion,) the medical community actually uses "emergent" as a synonym, or near-synonym, for "urgent." In fact, in my dictionary I see that "urgent" is given as the fifth definition of "emergent." Apparently my idea that "emergent" was more of an emergency than "urgent" is not necessarily true -- google "urgent/emergent" and you will see that lots of medical-related d
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