You certainly have a point. Just thinking that if I, as a medical professional, often has trouble interpreting them, I imagine the average layperson would also. We PWPs need all the knowledge we can get re: the enemy. As one of my friends, a psychiatrist from Haiti ,is fond of saying, the devil you know is preferable to the one you don't. Knowledge is power. Wonder what the solution is? Carole H. --- Michel Margosis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Carole Hercun wrote: > > > Just wanted to say that I, for one, find it > really helpful when > > janet interjects her little > > comments/clarifications into the medical posts. > Makes them easier to > > digest-so to speak. Keep 'em coming. > > > > No matter how much sense can be made out of medical > texts, I would be > especially careful about a lay person interpreting > biomedical data and > bio- > medical or biochemical language. The situation is > complex enough as it > is, > and I recommend that we leave translations to the > translator and not the > > touris, because "there is nothing to fear but fear > itself". > > Michel Margosis > 'Carpe Diem' > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com