Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound so great, ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number US 11822371 B2) for “Normalization of Medical Terms.” The goal is to simplify medical jargon in, for instance, reports from your doctor that would appear in the ...

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 ...

For non-physicians, medical terminology can be frustratingly opaque. One of my friends is a highly-educated computer professional who knows multiple programming languages, but he has also told me, “I ...