Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

Oncologists are particularly notorious at forgetting that even our most educated patients don’t speak doctor. Here is a painfully relatable discussion on the many oncologic faux pas we are all guilty of making, and it’s worth a read / listen if only to avoid reducing your next patient to tears by walking in the room to alarmingly pronounce: “Your scans are negative!” | Dizon & Prowell, Medscape 2019