House Calls, #952, December 22, 2024: The words and phrases you should not use when communicating with patients.

These phrases and words are likely to cast your physician into the doghouse when used either through sheer ignorance of language or having spent too much time in tgheir own health silo.

Your Calls and Comments:

  • A dad states that their child who has Autism and allergies has lost their pediatrician to retirement and does not have access to a new doctor.
  • Muscle and arthritic pain after using the antibiotic levofloxacin
  • Bladder stones and blood in the urine
  • Persistent Achilles tendon pain after a fall at the beach