new guidance has been issued by the academy of medical royal colleges, encouraging consultants to stopreported that some patients were having to book appointments just to have technical terms explained. let us know what you think about that. plain english? you can agree, right? being around to see your 102nd birthday is cause for celebration, but imagine having your twin by your side too! that's exactly what has happened to ann and gussie crumby. the sisters turned 102 in may, but have just got round to throwing a party with family and friends. after moving apart to have families of their own, the twins found their way back to each other in the late 90s and have been inseparable since. as you can hear, they're taking their birthday in their stride. i don't know where they are from. why do i want the answer to so many questions? i just why do i want the answer to so many questions? ijust want why do i want the answer to so many questions? i just want to know what they are putting on their cornflakes! you think if you are 102 you still have cornflakes?” cornflakes! you think if you are 1

so they're now encouraged by the academy of medical royal colleges to use plain english. ach time i get letters from my consultants i spend a couple of minutes on google desperately trying to find out what's wrong! it's all about making health a bit more personal, helping people understand what's going on with their bodies. what do you make of it? i love this story. we spend our careers and lives writing things in plain english so people can understand, and it infuriates me when people use latin. i had the misfortune of studying latin at school. me too. it was a painful experience and when people do it they make their language more impenetrable so you can't read it and understand it. it is lazy doctors, they're so smart, they are capable if they stopped and thought of writing in plain english. this is by the million letters containing important information about people's health, we should be able to read it and understand it. this is wider than doctors. i want to ban anybody in public office using latin and acronyms and anything like that. all those people who want us to k

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new guidance has been issued by the academy of medical royal colleges, encouraging hospital consultants at they were probably right hangover. we do tend to write etoh for alcohol. we use acronyms as well as latin. i don't know what a gp would write for the hangover? what about a runny nose? is this a common thing when patients eight ijust don't get this? in the clinic this morning i had a patient who had booked in justice morning i had a patient who had booked injustice speak morning i had a patient who had booked in justice speak to morning i had a patient who had booked injustice speak to me about the letter they come from the specialist. they had had an mri scan and they wanted to know what it meant. it is annoying first of all, but there is a serious side to this because you are talking about patients who, at the time, are worried about what has been written and the more latin you read, the more serious you probably think it is. it is notjust latin, it is acronyms as well. it is all about patient empowerment. knowledge is power at the end of the day and we wa nt power at the end of