This is PEDYACAST.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming you from nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 490 for May 13th, 2021.

We're calling this one your child's breathing.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So we have another Pediatrics in Plain Language edition of our podcast this week. And you will recall that our plain language

panel consists of Dr. Alex Rakowski and Dr. Marianne Abrams, both with primary care pediatrics

at nationwide children's hospital. When they visit the studio, we double

down on our efforts to avoid medical jargon and really try to use plain language as we cover

basic elements of childhood illness, injury, health, and wellness. And when medical jargon cannot be

avoided or when it is necessary to use, we try our best to explain exactly what we mean

alongside that jargon in plain language. And we hold each other accountable correcting one

another when medical jargon creeps in, which it tends to do because it's very easy

for doctors to allow big or complicated words to

slip into the conversation, not because we're trying to impress anyone, but it's really because

doctors are people. And for us, that medical jargon is simply part of our everyday vocabulary.

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