Definitions
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- noun An undesirable
patient or a patient who does not need medical care.
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21.p. 335.),
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-- "GOMER" may like to know that the old labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's ploughing as a "_journey at plough_."
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He looked, at first glance, like just another GOMER—heart failure, pneumonia, cognitive confusion—but then we got to talking.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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If, on the other hand, a proposed diagnosis is dismissed as meaningless, the patient who has complaints associated with this “wastebasket” diagnosis is going to be dismissed as a GOMER.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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ER's already being used as primary care facilities instead of only for emergencies has created the GOMER problem (doc) - "get out of my emergency room."
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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ER's already being used as primary care facilities instead of only for emergencies has created the GOMER problem (doc) - "get out of my emergency room."
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'GOMER PYLE, USMC'The popularity of Ted Baxter in the early seventies established a template for all the sitcoms to follow - that there should be one dim bulb in the array of lights that made up the ensemble.
FOOL'S GOLD Toby O'B 2005
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GOMER, buddy - "Get Out of My Emergency Room". zman wrote: Anyone can claim to be anything on the internet, buddy
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local shmuelman 2010
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GOMER, buddy - "Get Out of My Emergency Room". zman wrote: Anyone can claim to be anything on the internet, buddy
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local shmuelman 2010
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GOMER, buddy - "Get Out of My Emergency Room". zman wrote: Anyone can claim to be anything on the internet, buddy
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local shmuelman 2010
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