Word: jargoning
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This magazine usually includes more scientific jargon than press releases, since it is designed mainly for an audience of doctors. The HSPH office puts out a similar two-page weekly newsletter...
Awakenings, with 12 chapters in the New York City area, is a program aimed at "robust responders"--medical jargon for high-functioning individuals. Founder Ken Steele, who for 32 years wandered across America homeless and schizophrenic, feels that the most formidable task for the mentally ill is overcoming the social stigma. "The public's synonym for us is still psycho," he says. "We are feared and misunderstood." Partly to counter this, individuals with mental illness call themselves "consumers"--an emotionally neutral word meant to suggest people who consume medications and services associated with psychiatric disability. A voting effort, for example...
...true that research scientists don't always have the best bedside manner, and sometimes they unnecessarily keep patients in the dark. And the consent forms are often so encrusted with medical jargon that some patients joke they would rather take their chances with cancer than fill them...
...Well, that concept didn't fly. Professor Scrutiny Version One, in magazine jargon, was killed...
...Jock" is part of Harvard's jargon--a stereotype so prevalent that the Government Department last year printed up shirts for concentrators modeled on the famous "DHA" sweats...