Most people have visited a doctorrsquos office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television In The Secret Language of Doctors Dr Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of ldquoincarceritisrdquo What are ldquoblockingrdquo and ldquoturfingrdquo And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a ldquohorrendomardquo Dr Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients situations and medical conditionsmdashincluding those they donrsquot want you to know Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture.
