Many patients don’t understand health care instructions

The reason being that they are not written in conversational English:

Many health directions are written at a level that’’s above the average consumer, Rudd said. A simple example, she said, would be a can of baked beans at the local supermarket. A consumer may want to know the salt content before buying, but they don’t see the word salt anywhere on the label.

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