Up Front: Legal Pitfalls Break Doctors' Funny Bones

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TF BUNDY'S life is in danger, and Dr Tony Copperfield is worried.

For years he has been writing one of his favourite acronyms on patients' medical notes without much fear of comeback, safe in the knowledge that the subject or his relatives won't know it stands for Totally F***ed But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet.

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Up Front: Legal Pitfalls Break Doctors' Funny Bones

Doctors have long used black humour to make a job that deals with blood and guts on a daily basis bearable. And so patients' notes have been littered with such terms as JP FROG (Just Plain F***ing Ran Out Of Gas) and Oligoneuronal (for when they won't get away with "thick").

And as life in the National Health Service has become more pressured, the humour has become blacker, with favourite terms find...

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