doctorspeak

Sandwiched between the open air of the outside world and the internal body it protects, the skin reacts to both external (“extrinsic” in doctorspeak) and internal (“intrinsic”) factors.

Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

Sandwiched between the open air of the outside world and the internal body it protects, the skin reacts to both external (“extrinsic” in doctorspeak) and internal (“intrinsic”) factors.

Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

Sandwiched between the open air of the outside world and the internal body it protects, the skin reacts to both external (“extrinsic” in doctorspeak) and internal (“intrinsic”) factors.

Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

S. O'BRIEN: The national guidelines right now for the LDL is something like 100 milligrams per deciliter, which is all doctorspeak, but 100, let's say, is something like that.

CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2004 2004

"They don't have the energy and vitality" - in doctorspeak, they lack "physiologic reserve."

NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2012

Locating a group of perfectly healthy 85- year-old's for a drug trial - people who have no "co-morbidities" doctorspeak for other illnesses that might confound the experiment - is tough, agrees Dr. John Sloan, the Vancouver, B.C., family physician whose book "A Bitter Pill" criticizes the prevailing treatment of older patients.

NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2011

Locating a group of perfectly healthy 85-year-olds for a drug trial - people who have no "co-morbidities" doctorspeak for other illnesses that might confound the experiment - is tough, agrees Dr. John Sloan, a family physician in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose book "A Bitter Pill" criticizes the prevailing treatment of older patients.

NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2011

Ashley -- here here to your comments, and thank you very much for reading -- part of the problem is that doctorspeak is very different from regular speak.

The Health Care Blog 2009

Best of all, this eliminates errors from misreading handwritten scripts that’s “doctorspeak” for prescriptions, and renewals are a snap.

YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006

Best of all, this eliminates errors from misreading handwritten scripts that’s “doctorspeak” for prescriptions, and renewals are a snap.

YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006