11 words only doctors understand
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If you've ever spent time in a hospital or doctor's office, you know that people in medicine seem to have their own language.
But while doctors may throw around a lot of jargon, there's often a simple translation of what they're trying to say.
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Emergency room physician Brian Goldman documented several examples of the obscure terms doctors use in his book "The Secret Language of Doctors: Cracking the Code of Hospital Slang."
Read on to find out what your doctor is really saying:
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