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Words to Avoid When Writing Patient Education Materials
Healthcare providers should omit jargon from their patient-facing resources/ web pages, and posts. Avoid phrases like patient struggles with depression. Replace any emotional adjective describing the patient's medical condition. After all, we don’t rate a patient’s pain, nor should we assume we know how they are feeling with their diagnosis. Replace outdated terms, such as mental retardation, with the term intellectual disability. This practice of updating terminology not

Hannah Darnell
Nov 5, 20252 min read
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