Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound so great, ...

One of the hardest things about being a medical writer is translating medical terms or concepts into words that everybody can understand. As with many other scientific disciplines, jargon or ...

But if a provider still is not sure how much medical jargon patients understand, Dr Miller recommends “subtle ways to explain without necessarily appearing to do so.” For example, the provider can ...

The words some doctors use are often misunderstood by patients and their families, leaving them feeling confused and vulnerable, according to researchers. In a study published Wednesday in the journal ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number US 11822371 B2) for “Normalization of Medical Terms.” The goal is to simplify medical jargon in, for instance, reports from your doctor that would appear in the ...

For non-physicians, medical terminology can be frustratingly opaque. One of my friends is a highly-educated computer professional who knows multiple programming languages, but he has also told me, “I ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...