Gomer
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Medical slang for a patient who has lost--often through age--what goes into being a human being (quote from Samuel Shems The House Of God). Typically an old demented noncommunicative patient. Stands for Get Out Of My Emergency Room.
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An old person that takes up room in the hospital and doesnt have the common decency to die.
Definition taken from an episode of Scrubs. -
a stupid oaf, a social reject
a patient unwelcome in a hospital(supposedly standing for get out of my emergency room)
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Origin, hospital emergency room slang for extremely old, Alzheimers ridden, mute, sick people. GOMER is an acronym for Get Out of My Emergency Room. In the novel House of God (Samuel Shem, 1978) GOMERS are defined essentially as sickly old people who now because of dementia have lost whatever quality it is that makes someone a person. When GOMERS come into the hospital they are unable to communicate so the admitting doctor will order many, many, lab tests hoping to discover why the GOMER was sent to the hospital. GOMERS never come to the hospital, they are only sent. This battery of tests is sometimes called a Gomer-Gram.
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A pleasant but dim-witted person who is thick as a board, a real local yokel.
Gomer was a character in the Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, USMC on televison from 1963-1970. -
the real meaning of gomer is the following:
acting stupid, making an ass out of him/her self, being in a blonde moment, ignorant, neive, an idiot, someone who is clumsy. -
Any chronically debilitated patient, (usually not able to communicate due to stroke or coma) admitted to the hospital that has little or no hope for recovery. They are literally sent there so that family members can presume to live without the guilt of letting their loved one die with the least bit of human dignity. As a result, these poor souls die a slow, pitiful death, out of sight from their family because their family doesnt have the [seeds] to pull the plug.
Literally: Get Outta My E. R. -
Noun- A person or persons who displays an inability to function within normal social situations without being a nuisance, bother or generally an ass. It requires both an inability to function physically and mentally and should be used in describing a person or persons who possess both. Idiot references mental. Klutz references physical. Gomer encompasses both. A person who is not only an idiot, but has the physical ability to try to own it and inevitably fail.
Originally arose in connection to 60s iconic TV character Gomer Pyle. -
A person who does something correctly but in an odd way. Such as swimming, but looking like your drowning. Or writing but using all your fingers to grip the pencil.
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