Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure that if a patient came in slurring their words and all they could basically remember to say was ‘I can’t remember much, but my last doctor said I have FTD’, then if the acronym was standardized, every doctor would know what they mean.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can tell you that doctors will not trust the claims of anyone slurring their words. If they can’t identify the person and pull up their records, they’ll do their own diagnostics.

    What problem are you trying to solve? In what instance have you experienced an actual doctor say they wish there was an acronym for everything? Frontotemporal dementia is 3 precise bits of data. Two bits tell you what type of dementia, one bit to tell the majority of doctors this isn’t their specialty and just “dementia” is sufficient. And, more importantly, is rooted in Latin - the common root of medical terminology. It’s pronunciation carries further across the world than writing.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No shit, I already stated that most medical terms have Latin roots.

      What sane person you know that speaks Latin?

      What mentally handicapped people speak Latin?..

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      • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Latin is used BECAUSE it is dead. It means the terms don’t drift. It also lets the names/terms be a descriptive as necessary.

        Asking a doctor to memorise some Latin words is a lot easier and less error prone than a sea of acronyms.

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