It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.
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People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.