clipped from: www.guardian.co.uk The creative language that doctors use to insult their patients and each other is in rude health, with the former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff lending his name to one of the latest slang medical terms.
A Hasselhoff is medical shorthand for a patient who turns up in casualty "with an injury with a bizarre explanation", according to the latest edition of the British Medical Journal.
The slang was inspired by a freak injury the former Knight Rider actor suffered at London's Sanderson hotel last year when he hit his head on a glass shelf – or chandelier according to some newspaper reports – while shaving and cut his arm.
Other pop culture icons to lend their names to irreverent medical terminology include Jack Bauer, the protagonist of the US TV series 24, and Mini Me, Doctor Evil's pint-sized clone from the Austin Powers films.