title: Dump the mumbo-jumbo.
abstract: Health literacy isn't just a problem for recent immigrants or people with little education. The arcane language providers use verbally and in writing confuses nearly everybody.
authors.forename: Terese Hudson
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Thrall
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D018672:Community Health Planning; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013664:Teaching Materials / Q000592:standards; D014175:Translating; D014481:United States