{"id":37810,"date":"2016-11-17T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=37810"},"modified":"2016-11-17T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T09:39:00","slug":"neville-goodmans-metaphor-watch-leave-cocktails-to-the-bar-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/11\/17\/neville-goodmans-metaphor-watch-leave-cocktails-to-the-bar-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville Goodman&#8217;s Metaphor Watch: leave cocktails to the bar staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/neville_goodman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-33270\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/neville_goodman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"neville_goodman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Cocktail<\/em> isn\u2019t a common word in PubMed\u00ae, but its prevalence increased eight-fold between 1975 and 2015. <em>Cirrhosis<\/em> is six times more common but increased only 1.3-fold, which is probably not importantly different from unity. We could conclude that a cocktail won\u2019t give you cirrhosis, but these cocktails are not funny coloured drinks that taste dangerously as if they don\u2019t contain alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Cocktail is a reasonable word for a mixture of things, but the definition in the <em>COD<\/em> is of a mixture of substances or factors, <em>especially when dangerous or unpleasant<\/em> [my italics], and gives the example, \u201ca potent cocktail of drugs.\u201d That is fine for a medical journalist writing for lay people about cancer chemotherapy, but it is unnecessary and incorrect in scientific articles. Cocktails follow a recipe, but &#8220;two parts this to one part that&#8221; is not a pharmacological description, and a bloody Mary is vodka and tomato juice plus other bits and pieces, all in one glass. A so-called cocktail of chemotherapeutic agents will be of precise doses, given as separate pills and injections, and not necessarily at the same time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many of the cocktails in PubMed are not drugs. The word is popular with scientists working <em>in vitro<\/em>, who describe cocktails of antibiotics, enzymes, and all manner of chemicals. The makeup of these cocktails is often imprecise, but <em>mixture<\/em> is the better word, if a word is needed: a \u201ctriple cocktail of antagonists\u201d is a \u201cmixture of three antagonists\u201d; \u201ca synergistic Rh\/Ag\/Au catalyst cocktail\u201d is fine without the cocktail; \u201cthe recipient must take a lifelong cocktail of immunosuppressive medications\u201d is better as \u201crecipients must take immunosuppressants for the rest of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems sometimes that medical writers prefer a thesaurus to a dictionary: how else to account for, \u201c\u2026including early repair of vascular injury in such a trauma <em>m\u00e9lange<\/em> allows for a positive postoperative outcome\u201d,\u00a0 \u201c\u2026managed by a <em>concoction<\/em> of pre-medications like anxiolytics, analgesics and effective local anesthesia\u201d, and \u201cThe surgeon must be cognizant of the complication <em>potpourri<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, my thesaurus theory fades towards the more likely truth that some medical writers are just completely unfamiliar with and unable to write intelligible English. This sentence comes from the abstract of an article containing <em>cocktail<\/em>: \u201cCase studies combining passive sampling devices (PSD) extracts and toxicity assessment toward microorganisms at different biological scales from single organisms to communities level are presented.\u201d Are there words missing from this sentence? I don\u2019t understand it. Does anyone on the editorial board of <em>Frontiers in Microbiology<\/em>, which published it, understand it?<\/p>\n<p>A valid use of <em>cocktail<\/em> is in the phrase <em>cocktail party<\/em>, used in hearing research to refer to our ability to pick out individual sounds from background noise: the uncanny way that not only does one hear one\u2019s name mentioned across the room, but hears the preceding words despite their being said before one was aware.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Neville Goodman<\/strong> is a retired consultant anaesthetist and a writer. He is co-author of a book on medical English.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that my only competing interest is my co-authorship of a book about medical English.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocktail isn\u2019t a common word in PubMed\u00ae, but its prevalence increased eight-fold between 1975 and 2015. 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