defect”. Mental defect is a brain damage because of illness or injury. However, it also can be interpreted as crazy or insane. The second meaning seems to be the
right meaning of what Karev wants to say because the patient says something that can be easily believable. Thus, the type is double entendres, while the function is
social management. Another example is provided in the following utterance. Dr. Burke: Manufacturing things that really arent there, seeing only what
you want to see. Wasting our time, our resources, and throwing away your own life. Your illness is in your head, Kalpana.
Datum 53 Burke speaks a little bit rude when he finds a patient that actually is
healthy but consumes some pills in order to get sick. Therefore, there must be something wrong in her head. The medical terminology is the disease term that is
“illness in head”. Actually, Burke brings two meanings in his utterance between a disease that might be suffered in her head as the medical meaning and the
mentally illness of a lying which Kalpana did. Thus, the type of humor is double entendres, while the function is social management.
b. Medicine
This type of medical terminology is related to chemical things and medical stuffs which are used as medicine to cure disease and to do medication process.
Some findings of medicine terms in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 are shown below.
Dr. Bailey: You swallow a bitter pill this morning, Yang? Theyre dolls.
Datum 14 The situation is in the morning when the interns prepare their stuffs to start
the work and Bailey as the resident tries to make the situation warm and
comfortable by creating a teasing humor using an unusual case that happened the day before. A patient was operated because of swallowing doll heads that doctors
thought as balloon of drugs. The medicine term “pill” is employed to create humor by comparing it to dolls. Pill is a small solid piece of medicine which a
person swallows to cure the disease. Since the form is similar, she employs the term “pill” to create a humor to one of the intern named Cristina Yang. The
second example is in the following.
Dr. Grey: Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand... Oh, crap You feel unstoppable.
Datum 21 The context of this humor is an exaggeration Grey made as her expression
of angriness toward Derek. Grey breaks up with Derek and she expresses her sadness in a humor. However, she hides her personal emotion by employing a
medical tool “scalpel” which is usually used in surgery. A scalpel is a very sharp knife that is used for cutting through skin and flesh during an operation.
The use of scalpel here, however, symbolizes the weapon that a surgeon has as the control or power which in this context
refers to Derek’s, so he can do anything including hurting her. Thus, she uses hyperbole to strengthen her
argument. Moreover, social management is the function. The last example is in this following sentence.
Dr. Karev : Gunshot wound to the head. Where the hells this GSW to the head? Why wasnt the trauma team called?
Hello? Are you people insane?
Datum 42 This utterance is spoken by an intern, Karev. He is interested in checking
the document of a patient and gets shock because the illness is a gunshot wound.
However, he is wondering why there is no emergency call or even the action of trauma team since this injury he expects will be categorized as a very serious
injury. Therefore, he shouts to the nurses at surgery unit in order to get the detail information.
The medical term used to create sarcastic humor her e is “trauma team”.
This is a term belongs to a multidisciplinary group of healthcare workers who collectively work together on the assessment and treatment of those who are
severely injured. The humor type is sarcasm because Karev yells at the nurses who do not take care of the patient. Thus, the function is social management to
attract attention.
c. Hospital Position
