Correct!
cow stood for computer on wheels in operational hospital speak.
however, many patients, without any knowledge of medical speak, complained that the nurses and doctors were abusive because the patient thought the nurses were calling the patient a bovine. The hospital had to change their lexicon due to common knowledge know it alls who complained without comprehension.
That's what happens when you assume you know what all words mean in all contexts. So patients were out of their swim lanes by complaining about medical terms which they didn't understand, but related them to their common knowledge level.
The same misperception can happen with medical data, if you assume that you can interpret the data properly with common knowledge, which i am trying to warn people that with just common knowledge, you may not get to the information for what you are looking, or you are just spouting off common personal ignorance
heck, there was a math professional on here offering an explanation of improved time to sleep math calculation, and posters ignored learning, and just spouted off their common knowledge. So for the posters who realize the limits of their common knowledge, and prefer to avoid the data but understand risk tolerance, i applaud the self limitation recognition.
sportsguy
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