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==Medical== Doctors are faulted for using [[jargon]] to conceal unpleasant facts from a patient; the American author and physician [[Michael Crichton]] said that [[medical writing]] is a "highly skilled, calculated attempt to confuse the reader". The psychologist [[B. F. Skinner]] said that medical notation is a form of multiple audience control, which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which the patient might oppose if they could understand medical jargon.<ref>Skinner, B.F. (1957) ''Verbal Behavior'' p. 232</ref>
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