So, here's one for you folks in the medical field!
I am resisting the urge to "Google" this, so I hope you will too.
I've asked my Aunt and Cousin, who both work at a Hospital, and they don't know the answer.
So here's the deal: I remember hearing as a wee lad that the hospital term "STAT" is actually an acronym. I even knew what it stood for, but I've since forgotten. Maybe you know?
What do the letters in S.T.A.T stand for? How did your discover this? Why don't your peers know this?
It's not an acronym. It's short for Latin - statim - which means immediately. Though I am willing to bet that most medical professionals might not actually know that either. A student of Latin, with a professor who always wants everything IMMEDIATELY, gets fairly intimate with the word. :D
Just like Orb said, Stat is an abbreviation meaning "immediately". Learned that on my Brady EMS Report Writing Reference.
Having worked as an editor once, I can tell you what "STET" means.
I agree with Orb. Also a ton of medical terminology comes from Latin.
I am a pediatric nurse and I had to learn the latin meanings for each word, now I am a little rusty but at one point I knew most of the most important ones. :)
STAT means "one dose only" according to my sister, a nurse in the 1980s.