The privileged status of prestigious terminology: Impact of "medicalese" on clinical judgments

Academic Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Norman, Geoffrey R ^a   Arfai, Babak ^b   Gupta, Arun ^b   Brooks, Lee R ^b   Eva, Kevin W ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0141889926     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200310001-00026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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