Another is to sum up a previous explanation by introducing the medical jargon (“So, when that happens, we call it …”). But if a provider still is not sure how much medical jargon patients understand, ...

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 ...

When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring, Pooja Chandrashekar, then a first year student at Harvard Medical School, worried that easy-to-understand information about the pandemic ...

Medical professionals commonly use jargon to discuss software systems, medical devices and terms. Yet, too much jargon can disengage patients and harm workplace culture. Here are four tips to ...

Doctor talking to cancer patient Some patients do not understand common phrases oncologists use, such as “your tumor is progressing” or “your nodes are positive.” Medical terms that oncologists and ...

The results are in from those medical tests you took last week, and they might as well be written in Sanskrit. You could ...

A new University of Minnesota Medical School study published in Pediatrics highlights how children interpret common medical phrases, revealing surprising—and sometimes alarming—misunderstandings. The ...

There's a lot of room for dangerous misunderstanding when doctors and public health officials talk to diverse groups about COVID-19. Health... When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring ...

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 ...