Ooh! That’s probably it! I hadn’t thought of it that way.
Comment on Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"-
derekabutton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just pulling this out of my ass, but perhaps it’s an artifact from handwritten medical charts. GSW is shorter to write.
Rhoeri@piefed.world 1 day ago
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
it’s faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we’d shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.