Doctors Need to Learn How to Speak in Plain English

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Medical students at the University of Pittsburgh are learning to not talk like doctors.

For the past year and a half, staff members of the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council in East Liberty have taught third- and fourth-year students how to speak to patients who can barely read or write. All of Pitt's medical students are required to take eight lessons in their third or fourth year.

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Doctors Need to Learn How to Speak in Plain English

"If patients don't understand what's happening with them and do not have enough information to he...

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