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Sterno-"calvecular" joint - ESPN commentator. And he makes the big bucks... nm - Sims

Posted: Dec 12, 2010

sternoclavicular joint -- all one word - nm

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nm

Good gravy - I know what he meant. Just thought he could get the term right. nm - Sims

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Ah, but can you, at a moment's notice, tell millions of viewers - NKC

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the top five NFL players with the most rushing yards in a single season? WITHOUT the benefit of google at your finger tips?

So you can pronounce medical words better than a sports commentator. He doesn't type medical reports for a living.

Yes, I'm rolling my eyes at you.

he makes big bucks to comment on sport - not to pronounce complex medical terms....sm

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What we do is highly specialized. If it were not, anyone could do it.

Take pride in your skills. Don't expect others to know what you know.

Regardless of what he is saying, - 1mt

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he is a professional broadcaster, one who is broadcast across our entire nation, and he should pronounce his words correctly. If he wasn't sure how to pronounce it, then he should have investigated so he didn't mispronounce. I'm not a sports person, but I certainly cannot mistype something related to sports and use my unfamiliarity with sports as an excuse. Just saying...

However, a patient's care and comfort does not directly or indirectly depend - NKC

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on the mispronunciation of the broadcaster. That is the difference.

Thank you. I think I am done posting on this board. Not trying to start up a firestorm. - Sims

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Yes, I have noticed people tend to be in - a bad mood on this board

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a lot. Maybe its the whole work at home thing. I think a lot have lost their personal skills. I can only hope they do not really talk to people like this in person.

But, I guess it is because we are such highly specialized people. lol. The rocket science of typing a medical chart.

Bad mood is a nice way to put it. When people take off - their social faces, the real person is on view. NM

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It's not fun being under a microscope, ist it? - NKC

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Who the MT who is talking to other MTs or the - commentator on national TV

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Seriously, why post? Is someone having a bad day?

Shocking that someone on TV is under the microscope, and yes, we always are in this job. Chances are better than not that the commentator has more education than most of us posting on here. I would think sport's injuries are pretty common for a sport's commentator to have to report on, so I would think that they might want to at least try to find out the pronounciation if they don't know.

Yes, some of us could probably tell you more about sports than you think, hince the OP watching the sports guy.

Both. I get tired of the MTs who act as though - NKC

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they never make mistakes. Who make it there lot in life to correct EVERYONE. IMO, they deserve a taste of their own medicine.

I stand for the right of every MT and layperson to forget a comma, misspell a word, mispronounce a medical term, to not care about subject-verb agreement, and to throw caution to the wind and not proofread when they post.

He thought he was correct. Actors in medical - sm

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shows mispronounce all the time and they have medical consultants on board. Get over it.

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