15 - The Secret Language of Doctors, by Dr. Brian Goldman
WHY I PICKED IT: Met him at the Fail Forward Conference
ELAPSED TIME: 2 weeks
RATING: Meh
I'm counting this book as complete, despite getting through only 230 of it's 340 pages. Goldman shares the slang that hospitals use to convey information quickly between people. In it, he shows that the slang is a necessary component of communication, but also the biases and failures of the system to retain its humanity.
The challenge that I have with the book is that half way through he seems to stop conveying how language is the factor (the interesting component) and has entire chapters dedicated to single terms ("frequent flyers" are definitely a drain on the system, and there are systemic issues in the health care industry that enable the continuance of them, but I learned one concept in 20 pages... got it, moving on).
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