{"id":446,"date":"2008-09-15T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2008-09-15T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:00:03","slug":"medigab-this-may-hurt-a-little-so-tell-me-how-are-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Medigab: This may hurt a little. So tell me, how are your kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, Forced small talk used by professional caregivers to put patients at ease. (Not usually effective.) <em>v. intr.<\/em>, To ask insipid questions while subjecting a person to an intimate, awkward or painful procedure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/dental.gif\" alt=\"This may hurt a little. So tell me, how are your kids?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Medigab<\/strong>:  \/<em>med-i-gab<\/em>\/ Dentist&#8217;s medigab is designed to move the patient&#8217;s attention past the procedure so they will be somewhat more relaxed.<\/p>\n<p> <em>Etymology:<\/em>  MEDIGAB &#8211; noun &#8211; from &#8211; MEDICAL + GAB<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ompafone<\/strong>:  \/<em>Ew-mp-a-fone<\/em>\/ The doctor continued to make ompafone with me during the procedure. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Ompa- funny little people fone- projection <em>Created by:<\/em> BigKP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wompachat<\/strong>:  \/<em>wom-pa-chat<\/em>\/ The wompachat eased the dental patient. <em>Etymology:<\/em><br \/>\nchat- a conversion <em>Created by:<\/em> danny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obligastory<\/strong>:  \/<em>oh-blig-a-story<\/em>\/ Every six months I am muzzled and forced to listen to the dentist&#8217;s obligastory about his three sons &#8211; almost as boring as his drill.<br \/>\n <em>Etymology:<\/em>  obligatory + story <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=dental\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=dental<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n., Forced small talk used by professional caregivers to put patients at ease. (Not usually effective.) v. intr., To ask insipid questions while subjecting a person to an intimate, awkward or painful procedure. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Medigab: \/med-i-gab\/ Dentist&#8217;s medigab is designed to move the patient&#8217;s attention past the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medigab: This may hurt a little. So tell me, how are your kids?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,93,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}