This guy doesn't know the half of it
A complaint about medical jargon that rails against words like "toxic" and "vegetables"... written by someone who obviously doesn't spend much time around doctors. Spend five minutes with Lovely Fiancée (soon to be Lovely Wife!) and her med school classmates and you'll hear far worse... epistaxis, neoplasm, pneumothorax... that's some jargon for you.
posted by Danny @ 9:51 PM
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I do think that he has a point - a patient told that he is at high risk of developing an aortic dissection if he does not take his atorvastatin PO bid is not going to be very "adherent", if you will. So yes, I think that using simpler language will help patients understand what they are up against and what they can do to help themselves. But I also think that this writer really loses that good point in an annoying criticism of big words. I'm not really sure where he's hearing these words that the thinks it's so inappropriate. Stop hanging around doctors when they're trying to talk shop!
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