Whenever i’m greeted by such incomprehensible colloquialisms, i say to myself, “you should’ve become a doctor like your father.” but then i remember listening to my father talk shop on the phone when i was a child. i couldn’t understand him than any better than i understand my students today. i tried to keep up with the conversation as best i could, but when i heard phrases like myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia i just knew i couldn’t hack it as a physician. stat, taxoplasmosis, ventricular fibrillation: not exactly music to a young boy’s ears. by the time i was in high school i was reading poetry on my own free time just to counteract the damage done by my father’s medspeak. even a grocery list sounds poetic after listening to thrombosis and neonatal sepsis that.

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i tried to keep up with the conversation as best i could, but when i heard phrases like myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia, i just knew i couldn’t hack it as a physician."

which statement best explains why this quotation from the selection includes slang?

a) the phrase i just knew is nonstandard english.

b) the use of medical terminology is meant to be humorous.

c) this quotation from the selection does not include slang.

d) the phrase couldn't hack it is informal and meant to be humorous.