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Why do doctors say "stat" and not just "now!"? [[User:82.41.105.243|82.41.105.243]] 16:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

:(1) It gives medical authority, while saying "now!" just sounds bossy;
:(2) Latin is [[l33t]]
:(3) The non-initiated do not know what it means, and the urgency is less obvious to them (avoiding panicky situations)
:(4) Your conspiracy theory (heh). [[User:Jfdwolff|JFW]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[User_talk:Jfdwolff|<small>T@lk</small>]] 16:49, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

::The Romans knew 1337 too? Does this make 1337 an Indo-European language? [[User:Rintrah|Rintrah]] 16:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

It gives a rating of urgency, there's "sometime", "soon", "ASAP", "STAT" and "RFN" depending on how urgent it is (though I doubt the latter is used in many medical contexts...) [[User:Phlip|Phlip]] 14:36, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

:Forgive me, but I very slow. Does "RFN" mean "right fucking now?".

In my dealings with people, often the word "now" does not actually convey a sense of immediacy or urgency, and may in fact mean "any time between this second and the next half hour" depending on the speaker and the context.  More effective communication is acheived by choosing a different word which is only used in life threatening circumstances.[[User:67.130.136.95|67.130.136.95]] 00:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Context? ==
Is the use of "stat" in a medical context specific to the U.S.?  Can someone say if this is used in hospitals in the UK? [[User:Oliver Crow|Oliver Crow]] 00:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
:I'm not a medic, but my work takes me into hospitals in several European countries, and since nobody else has replied to you, I thought I would for what it's worth. In short, I've never heard it used. But I expect it will become more common as we watch more and more TV programmes like ''ER'', ''Diagnosis Murder'', and ''Scrubs'' in the UK. (Incidentally, I've not noticed it being used on our home-grown UK TV programmes like ''Casualty'' and ''Holby City''.) Probably best to leave the article as it is until we get a more concrete opinion though. &ndash; [[User:kierant|<span style="color:#006600;">Kieran T</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:kierant|''<span style="color:#006600;">talk</span>'']] | [[Special:Contributions/User:kierant|<span style="color:#006600;">contribs</span>]])</sup> 15:17, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
::Heh. While I was in hospital, I felt like yelling out, "I need more morphine, stat!". I do not think it is really used in Australian hospitals either. I will ask those I know who have worked in hospitals. [[User:Rintrah|Rintrah]] 05:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

== Merger ==

Would it hurt anyone's feelings to merge this onto the list of common latin phrases? It doesn't really need its own little island out here in the Wiki ocean. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/70.187.178.72|70.187.178.72]] ([[User talk:70.187.178.72|talk]]) 21:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

:Not mine. Go ahead. [[User:Rintrah|Rintrah]] 02:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)