eSurgery » Learning from patients http://esurgery.com.au An Educational Patient Information Website Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:33:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Jack Dancer http://esurgery.com.au/learning-from-patients/jack-dancer/ http://esurgery.com.au/learning-from-patients/jack-dancer/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 12:46:29 +0000 drcheah http://esurgery.com.au/?p=39 I am always learning from my patients…just this Friday, after telling the patient the result of his gastroscopy and colonoscopy, my patient told me
” Good..I don’t have Jack the Dancer then”

He promptly explained to me that Jack Dancer means cancer!

Anyway, I did a further search on the web and found this useful link:

http://www.australianhistory.org/australian-slang-etoz.php

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