EXCI 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Blood Vessel, Erms, Immune System
15 Jan 2016
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This patient needs an angiogram, stat! and this 80- year old man was brought in with a suspected sub-dural hematoma . You scratch your head and think that this is all a foreign language that medical personnel deliberately use to scare patients into silence. Frequently, when we are in front of medical personnel, they seem to use words that we don"t understand, and we feel too overwhelmed, rushed, confused or lacking in confidence to ask for clarification. This section is here to help you to understand and interpret what is really being stated by health care providers, and you can learn that this. Foreign language is really quite understandable if you know a few of the terms and how to decode what is being said. The result of this knowledge will be the ability to be a more involved in decisions about one"s care.
