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Written by Esther M. Bailey, Scottsdale, AZ
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It happens all the time. Patients get a report from the doctor that seems to make sense at the time. They then go home and wonder what the doctor meant by saying so and so.
“Give it to me in plain English,” they want to say.
Most people want straight talk in medical matters, but the doctor I worked for had the opposite reaction from one patient. Mr. Clark (not his real name) had brought his son to see the doctor a month earlier. Now he had returned with a problem of his own.
While Dr. Lord examined Mr. Clark, the man said, “By the way, Doc, I found out what was wrong with my boy. I took him to a doctor in Ankenytown and he said it was malnutrition.”
“Oh, and what did I way was wrong with him?”
“You said he wasn't getting enough to eat.”
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