Two colored cartoon characters, orange and blue, appear to be arguing with speech bubbles. The orange character has an open mouth and the blue character has a furrowed brow. The green speech bubble from the orange character reads 'blah blah blah blah blahhh' and a yellow speech bubble from the blue character contains gibberish characters.

Glossary

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There are a truly dizzying number of acronyms and terms across education and healthcare. See something that’s unclear? It’s not you… It’s me! A jargon glossary is in the works. In the meantime, drop me a note to ask a question or nominate a confusing word for inclusion.

“Health care professionals regularly use jargon when communicating with patients, despite acknowledging that it should be avoided…. The mismatch between our intent to avoid jargon and the reality of our frequent use of it has been called jargon oblivion.”

From “Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases” Full Text
Rachael Gotlieb, MD1; Corinne Praska, MD1; Marissa A. Hendrickson, MD2,3; et al