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JULIA Gillard could hardly have had a worse day if she were a real estate agent trying to flog a block of land beneath Brisbane's flood level.

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"Following on from the series of stories of medical abbreviations, as doctors we also often use with our patients euphemisms for banal words and functions that we are too embarrassed to say," writes Dr John Frith, of Paddington. "I used to use the phrase 'How's your plumbing?' for 'Are you having any difficulties passing urine?', until one day an elderly female patient looked at me very strangely and said, 'Thanks doctor, it's fine, I just had my plumber in yesterday, but I have come to see you about some discomfort I've got passing my urine'."

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