Who do you think are the most cynical people in the world? Cops? Executioners? Or maybe prostitutes? Clowns? We're thinking it's doctors. If you want proof, check out some of the horrifying-yet-hilarious slang they use around the office. Yes, these are real. Advertisement

8 PRATFO What It Means: Patient Reassured And Told to Fuck Off. When It's Used:

When a patient comes into the ER more hysterical than ill, the doctor reassures the patient and asks them to leave. However, this acronym has gotten at least one doctor into trouble when he scribbled it in a patient's chart and then later was asked to explain it in court. Continue Reading Below Advertisement We're not saying you should ever lie in court, but in that situation you should at least consider it.

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7 AMYOYO Syndrome What It Means: Alright, Motherfucker, You're On Your Own. When It's Used:

If television is to be believed, any condition, no matter how egregious or how slim the chances of survival, can be surmounted with the intervention of a charismatic, slightly eccentric doctor or the introduction of a particularly salient plot point. Continue Reading Below Advertisement Well, television is not to be believed. If a patient split from crotch to neck, sustained a shotgun wound to the chest, or fell twenty stories onto the pavement, then a great deal's up to a God. Assuming he exists, or cares. Thus we get the AMYOYO Syndrome diagnosis, with the variations SOLOMFYOYO (So long, Motherfucker, You're On Your Own) and GPO (Good for Parts Only).

6 Faecal Encephalopathy What It Means: Shit-for-Brains. Continue Reading Below Advertisement When It's Used:

If you wind up in the emergency room because, say, you were trying to launch bottle rockets out of your anus, you can expect to hear this term thrown around. Latin, or pseudo-latin, is often used to convey unflattering terms and make it sound grandiloquent to the uninformed (or faecal-encephalopathic) ear. Variations include Cranio-Rectal Syndrome and Cranial Rectosis, presumably for when the patient doesn't have shit for brains but merely has his head up his ass.