This is PediCast.

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 to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 484 for February 16th, 2021.

We're calling this one your child's mouth and throat.

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'll recall that our plain language panel consists of Dr. Marianne Abrams and Dr. Alex

Rikowski, 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 we use plain language, at least to the best of our ability, as we cover some

basic elements of child health care.

And when medical jargon cannot be avoided, or when we let it slip through, we do our best to explain, well, first we do our best to catch it, that we actually used something other than plain language.

So we do try to hold each other accountable and correct any jargon that might creep in and explain exactly what we mean when that jargon does pop up.

So in other words, we really try to keep things in plain language as much as we can. And it does

tend to make our conversation interesting as we listen carefully to the words

we are using, because I'll tell you, letting medical jargon slip in, it's a really easy thing to do.

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