We Really Couldn’t Come Up With a Better Name for This? By Bradley Schagrin

We Really Couldn’t Come Up With a Better Name for This?

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Are Abbreviations Ruining Medical Communication? Even the familiar acronym “DNA” has multiple, and completely different, interpretations in medicine, highlighting how unstable acronym use has become.

New article on #Medscape: Are Abbreviations Ruining Medical Communication?

Medicine's fetish for linguistic shortcuts has real consequences—time to talk about it.

🔗 medscape.com/viewarticle/are-abbreviations-ruining-medical-communication-2025a1000zd7

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