Susan2 details her experience with 'doctor-speak'.
Transcript
Earlier on when I did not understand a lot of the vocabulary, my thought would have been to … do not use hospital-speak or doctor-speak. Sometimes they would tell you what’s going on but it was over your head. So until I understood more about my disease and what we’re talking and where we’re going, it was like if you were to tell a ‘newby’, somebody new coming into that – you know, you have to get down, you have to get down to my level. I don’t know any of this stuff. I’m down here and I need to understand what’s happening at my level. And I still think that’s valid.
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