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Latin for 'immediately,' because doctors decided 'now' wasn't urgent enough.
means Immediately, with no delay — the word doctors and hospitals use to mean 'drop everything and do this now.'
from Clipped from the Latin 'statim,' meaning 'immediately' or 'on the spot.' It took root in medical shorthand, scrawled on charts and barked in emergency rooms, which is why it still carries that urgent, breathless, white-coat energy.
- origin
- short for statim, Latin for at once
- misconception
- not an acronym, despite the all-caps habit
- usage
- medical shorthand now hijacked by every workplace
- irony
- often shouted while nothing actually moves faster