Medical diagnoses in Latin?
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Grace Carter80 said:Sulcus means groove
🙂
It’s actually a furrow,
to be precise. 😉
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It’s actually a furrow,
to be precise. 😉
Medical diagnoses in Latin?
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fadedtrucker19 said:There’s actually this theory floating around that doctors scribble so illegibly on purpose, just because they don't actually know their Latin declensions and want to hide the evidence... 😁
That is quite true, isn't it? I remember one physician we had who could only manage to write unam / unum or perhaps duos / duas inside those dosage brackets—though I'm honestly not sure if the neuter gender even exists for packaging requirements—so whenever he was faced with needing to write quattuor or, heaven forbid, quinque, he would simply end up writing out two separate prescriptions instead. 😁
Medical diagnoses in Latin?
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It’s a tall order, really, which is exactly why we have family doctors to walk us through what those diagnoses actually imply—assuming, of course, they have all the answers. 😁
For instance, without a local clinic like Mayo Clinic to guide them, most people would be completely lost trying to decipher something like "gastrointestinal bleeding." It's just plain English, even if it sounds incredibly technical.
That said, I personally find it most convenient when everything is listed in Latin, provided they follow it up with a standard American medical abbreviation: pulmo b. o. (nothing too fancy). 😛
For instance, without a local clinic like Mayo Clinic to guide them, most people would be completely lost trying to decipher something like "gastrointestinal bleeding." It's just plain English, even if it sounds incredibly technical.
That said, I personally find it most convenient when everything is listed in Latin, provided they follow it up with a standard American medical abbreviation: pulmo b. o. (nothing too fancy). 😛