{"id":39234,"date":"2022-12-02T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=39234"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T10:08:14","slug":"medical-jargon-putting-patients-in-harms-way-from-an-impressive-x-ray-thats-actually-worrying-to-a-negative-test-that-should-be-seen-as-a-positive-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/medical-jargon-putting-patients-in-harms-way-from-an-impressive-x-ray-thats-actually-worrying-to-a-negative-test-that-should-be-seen-as-a-positive-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical jargon putting patients in harm&#8217;s way: From an &#8216;impressive&#8217; X-ray that&#8217;s actually worrying to a &#8216;negative&#8217; test that should be seen as a positive thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37801\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GP-appointment-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GP-appointment-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GP-appointment.jpeg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patients are struggling to understand their doctors because of confusing medical jargon, a study has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11491747\/Medical-jargon-putting-patients-harms-way-Study-calls-doctors-lingo-dumbed-down.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Patients are struggling to understand their doctors because of confusing medical jargon, a study has found. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/medical-jargon.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39236,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234\/revisions\/39236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}