medicalese

Too often, doctors speak in medicalese, a foreign language to their patients.

In complicated medicalese, it tells an amazing story of survival.

The trouble was that Pan- told it in medicalese, which might as well have been Greek.

Sasha skimmed the text below the pictures, but it was all in medicalese and made no sense to her.

There are sources where they can learn about their bodies, minus the medicalese and pious homilies.

The paramedics swarmed around the victim, snapping off 'rapid-fire medicalese.

At every step there's a potential for misunderstanding," said Butler, who added that he tries not to lapse into "medicalese" with patients.

Physicians, speaking medicalese, can rattle off percentages, procedures, probabilities and a laundry list of interventions: respirators, resuscitation, feeding tubes.

She hated the autopsy reports, but through the courses she'd taken, she'd learned to remove herself from the gruesome details, most of which were couched in medicalese.

Only when all else fails try 'I think I may have a low thyroid' 'I would like a blood test' Rule 3 Use ordinary language Doctors think only they speak medicalese.

The way he read the data - and he was becoming increasingly confident in his layman's ability to interpret medicalese - he thought PPS could stop the progression of the disease but probably could not reverse it.