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Medical jargon.

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  • S. O'BRIEN: The national guidelines right now for the LDL is something like 100 milligrams per deciliter, which is all doctorspeak, but 100, let's say, is something like...
  • Sandwiched between the open air of the outside world and the internal body it protects, the skin reacts to both external (“extrinsic” in doctorspeak) and internal...
  • Ashley -- here here to your comments, and thank you very much for reading -- part of the problem is that doctorspeak is very different from regular speak.
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