Charles R. Twardy

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Health literacy

Worth remembering:

“Among the people I work with in medical schools, there’s a strong adherence to what they call the health-literacy model, which is that physicians really believe that if you tell people the right information they will make decisions for themselves you yourself would make. And that’s an incorrect assumption.”

The New Yorker

Despite the title, I found the article reassuring.