How Doctors Speak

"Blake," you say to me, as you are often apt to do these days, "I can't understand a single fucking thing my doctor says."

I can sympathize.

"And it gets worse when two of you guys are talking to each other. Hard enough to understand one white coat but then another of you walks in the room. That happens, and you start talking something that sounds like Ancient Greek humping a can of alphabet soup: this patient presents with AMS, scleral injection, and hyperalimentation likely secondary to...