What is the importance of medical terminology in the medical field?

Question

What is the importance of medical terminology in the medical field?

Answer 1

If you are not able to understand and/or to speak the terminology, you could very, very well be a danger to patients. The words can be broken down into shorter words that mean a specific thing, and learning them is extremely important. What if the Dr. tells you the patient has a uvular edema, and you don't have a clue as to what that is, or what tests need to be run? Terminology is not as difficult as it seems, at first, and it should really be deemed a real second language, I think! Your job could be to WRITE down on referrals what the patient has been diagnosed with. Reading doctors' writing is not the easiest thing to do, and you may need to ask the doctor. So, if the doctor TELLS you and that is not a word in your vocabulary, you can't spell it, and the insurance people deny the insurance, who is to blame? If you are a patient, yourself, I say to learn the medical terminology, for your own safety. Since my children often had strange conditions, I learned all the terminology that a certied medical assistant learns, while my own son was in college for it. I quizzed him, and knew all the answers as well as he did, when he graduated top of his class! It was even suggested that I take the tests and become certified, as well. I did not do this, only because I didn't want to steal ANY of my son's well earned thunder! As to medical 'talk', when you are asked to explain to a patient how to take their new medication, and you aren't aware of how many pills to take, now often, and orally or otherwise, because you do not know how to read the doctor's '
shorthand, you could cause a great problem by explaining the prescription not correctly to the patient who is trusting you to know the exact meaning of the medical shorthand.
Medicine is a wonderful field, and I hope that you learn your medical vocabulary, and go on to help people all your life!

Answer 2

Importance Of Medical Terminology

Answer 3

That is like asking how important is math to the engineering field. You cannot function in the medical field unless you understand medical terminology. It is how medical professionals communicate to each other.

Answer 4

Medical terminology is efficient short-hand. It's a way to get a lot of information out quickly, in a way that most other providers understand.

Answer 5

Medical terminology is important for accurate communication. for example, if i said a patient broke his arm, that would be vague. If i said he broke his humerus, that rules out the ulna and radius.

Answer 6

Silly question, really. All of the nerves, bones, muscles, tissues, organs and other parts of the body have to have names. Each surgical procedure needs a name. Every pharmaceutical chemical needs a name. How would doctors communicate if they didn't have a vocabulary to use? Point at everything?

Answer 7

STANDARDIZATION OF TERMS