Bad Medical Language: "Failure to Die" & "GOMER"

Brian Goldman recently published The Secret Language of Doctors.  In 330 pages, Goldman exposes the clandestine phrases that doctors use to describe patients, situations and even colleagues they detest. This book reveals modern medical culture at its best and all too often at its worst.



Specifically, chapter five is titled "Failure to Die."  This tragic term and the related term "GOMER" is discussed in a brief promotional video that Goldman produced.