Gorky, Gorki??

[Gbro]

I have heard the term gork and or Gorky many times in medical context and have not understood exactly what this means and where it originates. I even asked a nurse today after she used the term Gorky and she said she truly doesn’t know but that she uses it to describe ones LOC after medical procedure.

[Exapno_Mapcase]

gork

Acronym for “God Only Really Knows” - Medical slang for someone who has suffered a traumatic head injury and is comatose or in a persistent vegetative state.

This guy was shot in the head. He’s never going to come out of his coma. He’s a gork now.

gorked

a slang term to describe the state of being high or “drugged up” to the point where one is incapable of basic thoughts and functions. Sometimes used between staff members in hospitals

• How’s the guy in room 1209 doing?
• Man, he’s fuckin’ gorked!

gorking

When a doctor over-prescribes (usually psychoactive) medications. A higher dose than necessary, though not physically damaging, results in a ‘flat affect’, i.e. zombie-like state. ‘Thorazine/Haldol Shuffle’.

The doctors are gorking my mentally-challenged uncle.

That patient is being gorked…look at his Haldol Shuffle!

It’s your use of LOC that I don’t get.

[Gbro]

Thank you,
I get it now.

It’s your use of LOC that I don’t get.

Quote:

Acronym for “God Only Really Knows” - Medical slang for someone who has suffered a traumatic head injury and is comatose or in a persistent vegetative state.

This guy was shot in the head. He’s never going to come out of his coma. He’s a gork now.

Kind of an altered “level of consciousness”