Summary
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.See the full content of this document
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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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