http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArticlesTeachersAboutEfl/Forum8.htmResource of articles submitted by our teachers.enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalJargonMedicalEnglish/cp/post.htm#414913Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:34:53 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:414913Neweagle0http://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalJargonMedicalEnglish/cp/post.htm#414913http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-414913.xmlWriting about medicine and health poses a great challenge: how to let the general public understand me? First, the challenge lies within space. In medical speak, an angioplasty says it all. When you write, you have to say - a procedure which involves putting a scope into your heart, inject a dye and look at the blood vessels in the heart. That is one vs 12 words! Second, is the tendency to make things too simple... which i personally cringe at... Third... is health that popular after all... writing about disease in a positive light all the time isn't too logical, isn't it? I was just wondering, if you were a normal person, would you really want to understand medical jargon?http://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalJargonMedicalEnglish/cp/post.htm#71134Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:34:53 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:71134lauren25021http://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalJargonMedicalEnglish/cp/post.htm#71134http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-71134.xmlHi there I just read this article and I was just wondering whether I would be able to use it, correctly referenced on my website which deals with medical issues for the general public. Thanks a lot, Lauren.http://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalJargonMedicalEnglish/cp/post.htmThu, 26 Mar 2009 04:34:53 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:49hitchhiker2http://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalJargonMedicalEnglish/cp/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-49.xmlComputer colleagues baffle me with talk of hardware, software and megabytes, just as photographer friends mystify me with talk of apertures, emulsions and push-processing. But the medical profession is even more renowned for its jargon - an industry's own language for professionals to communicate with each other. Doctors could not talk to one another quickly and efficiently if everything they said had to be constantly explained or put into plain language. If a surgeon removes an organ, the operation is called an 'ectomy', like a hysterectomy, the removal of the womb, or appendectomy, removing the appendix, or a tonsillectomy for taking out tonsils. But if he tinkers about with bits of bone and takes some out to correct a...