The Bilingual Physician: Seamless Switching From Medicalese to Plain Language

Overview

Journal J Grad Med Educ

Date 2018 Apr 25

PMID 29686750

Citations 2

Authors

Kristie Hadden

Clifford Coleman

Angela Scott

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