Clinicians baffling patients with common medical words
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Clinicians baffling patients with common medical words

Patients find it hard to understand commonly used medical terms, and clinicians need to modify their language in consultations, researchers say.

Nursing Standard. 32, 27, 17-17. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.27.17.s15

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