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- 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? 1 day ago:
I am very familiar with medical terms and even I ask the doctor to write down the specifics of my diagnosis when I want to seek a second opinion.
- 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? 1 day ago:
But FTD is used by people to talk about frontotemporal dementia.
However, it isn’t an acronym, but an abbreviation. Abbreviations are generally not much easier to remember and even more meaningless to normal people. The reason they wouldn’t use the abbreviation in the documentary is because abbreviations are generally considered even more complex to both remember and understand than ‘long’ words. Only when a loooot of people know and talk about a disease does an abbreviation or other name become mainstream enough (thinking about flu for influenza etc) that it actually becomes useful to have the shorter name. Even at a conference about brain diseases you would only use FTD after giving the full term first so people know what you are talking about.
But yes, if Bruce goes to a clinic and says he has FTD they will know what’s up (or google the abbreviation).
- 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? 1 day ago:
Isn’t teflon a brand name? Not standardized, just capitalized.
- 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? 1 day ago:
But who does the patient need to communicate it to other than health professionals? Other people should be satisfied with a phrase like “dementia that causes me to behave different and/or have difficulty speaking” otherwise they are just going to have to look up the disease anyway.
FTD is a rare disease (meaning less than 65/100000 people get it in their lifetime) and there are thousands of rare diseases. Who do you propose should come up with simple names for all of these, teach these to all medical professionals and make sure all info online gets both the descriptive and simple name attached?? There are enough issues with terminology in the medical world as is, trust me.
- 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? 1 day ago:
I would counter that the medical term is descriptive. Tell anyone with medical/medicine-related education someone has frontotemporal dementia and they know what is going on with the patient and what bodypart is affected. We can simplify with just “dementia” or a simpler term but you loose the specific meaning. Just like cancer is a two syllable simple word but a proper diagnosis includes way more information and has a more difficult term related. Equally, while the layman may prefer teflon and benadryl, the chemical/scientific name tells a trained person exactly what they are dealing with without having to look anything up, and does not suffer from different names across languages/borders. You cannot force simpler names as they will not be used in the medical/scientific community, so only if a disease is common enough to enter most peoples vocabulary will they come up with simpler terms or remember the term easily.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 1 day ago:
I immediately downvoted this fork… then scrolled back because I hate the fork, not the post. -238/10
- Comment on Cutting sucks 3 weeks ago:
If you were never fat, why are you trying to lose 20+ pounds?
- Comment on The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately. 3 weeks ago:
Same in the Netherlands.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 4 weeks ago:
None of the accusations have been proven false though. (As far as I know)
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 months ago:
Will the height be adjustable? Otherwise the sitting thing will be either way to low or poking the backs of most people.
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 3 months ago:
Our local library has a table with young plants for exchange. I love it!
- Comment on Does anyone else feel guilty or very depressed after accomplishing anything? 3 months ago:
I used to feel bad about reaching milestones and “succeeding at life” because I was mourning a friend who could not reach those milestones with me. Therapy helped a lot.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 4 months ago:
It might be hard for them to find someone who is both fluent in english AND knows the field well enough to know vegetative electron microscopy is not a thing. Most universities have one general translation help service and science has a lot of field-specific weird terms.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
Ouch… aged three years in a single day.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 months ago:
I will spell out aluminium, but when I have to pronounce it I go with aluminum.
- Comment on The chair 5 months ago:
Could be multiple years even…
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 5 months ago:
I’m just happy that this semi-true fact led me to learn a whole lot about the nahuatl and their history!
- Comment on Little dude ATP 9 months ago:
MITOCHONDRIA ARE THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!!!
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 10 months ago:
The person giving out the papers would be the dishonest one in this case. He could grab papers for himself or hand out more than one to a friend.