Volume 187 - Issue 6
Patient privacy and Latin: my father’s story
Author: Peter Piazza
Med J Aust 2007; 187 (6): 375. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01298.x
Published online: 17 September 2007
Published online: 17 September 2007
To the Editor: Like Haley’s father,1 I too lament the fact that Latin terms have fallen out of use in medical terminology. I also think it retrograde that Latin is being taught to fewer and fewer of our secondary students, as they are missing out on an opportunity to learn so much more about our own language, let alone terms that they might use later in their clinical practice.
However, I do not think that it was Latin that helped the young teacher out of a difficult predicament in the 1950s. I can assure Haley that “pseudocyesis” is all Greek to me.
References
- Haley KA. Patient privacy and Latin: my father’s story [letter]. Med J Aust 2007; 186: 328. 0_EHIBEAAE
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