The Practice of Medicine
Words I Want to Avoid as a Physician: Focal
Medical jargon drives me crazy sometimes. It makes sense to use with other health professionals who will know what you’re talking about. It facilitates communication in certain situations. With patients though, it seems to just get you in trouble, or make you look like a fool.
A focal neurologic deficit as I understand [...]
Words I Want to Avoid as a Physician: Asymptomatic
I’m starting a new series of posts called “Words I Want to Avoid as a Physician.”
A huge chunk of my day as an ER Scribe is spent observing patient-doctor interactions. Too often I’ve seen physicians use a medical word or phrase that 90% of the time the general population would not know. Unfortunately, some [...]
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