TY - JOUR T1 - LAnguage in medical documentation AU - Dittmar W AU - Weller A Y1 - 2013/03/13 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2013.1001 JO - JAMA SP - 983 EP - 984 VL - 309 IS - 10 N2 - Language is key to social cohesion, providing a foundation for communication and creating further shared experiences.2 In this way, contemporary students are initiated into the subculture of medicine by learning a shared vocabulary that describes specific physiological and psychological phenomena. Furthermore, the medical body of knowledge is expanding rapidly, thereby necessitating new words. Demands on a clinician's time require that documentation be balanced with patient encounters, education, and administrative tasks. Physicians must thus be able to rapidly and accurately communicate specific information. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.1001 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.1001 ER -