What is induction like?

Shortstack06

Top ten search results for AROM from Google:

Active Range of Motion

Active Range of Motion

Active Range of Motion

Strongs Hebrew

Total Bible: the sons of Arom

aroM: Escherichia Coli

Arom S.A: Some spanish site

Arom d Hostel

AROM Productions: they produce videos

Arom d Hostel (hotel in Thailand)

desertsun

Different people feel the need for different levels of expertise.

Different people feel the need to express themselves differently. 

Constructive criticism was offered and responded to. Meta can decide for herself if she wants to change how she posts, and people can continue to just skim past her responses if she doesn't.

Yes? Is it time for sexy men and food now?

allitor12

Just because I want to use this gif again today

desertsun

Ryan Gosling, yes PLEASE!

drpayne

metaphysique said:

Shortstack06 said:

I am not attacking in anyway here @meta, so don't take it as that. But on the medical questions/ information threads I briefly skim your answers also because I don't know the terms.  My doctor uses layman terms where I don't have to sit with my smart phone in hand and Google the entire conversation at my appointments.  While being informed is one thing, looking up every other word in your 1,392 (spaces not counted) is not something I am going to do.  No one can dictate how you respond on the board, obviously we all have made it a point to newbs and so forth of this.  But we are asking if you can use terminology even the layman can understand because I am sure your response are actually helpful and full of knowledge but seem wasted when someone like myself that just skims.

Providers will use broad terms that reflect the diverse demographic of their practice, and most providers don't have the time to get all technical. They have patients to see. And seeing as there's probably little in the way of demand for technical verbiage, they have no reason to use them unless in like company. But if one is browsing a forum and has access to a search function then I can't imagine why brushing up on a handful of terms is a difficult task. 

If someone is asking a technical or specific question, I answer it accordingly. I use proper terms. And "1,392" is a wee bit hyperbolic. AROM, OA/LOA, Bishop's score, VE are just a handful of medical abbreviations. It isn't string theory. As easy as it is to do a search for membrane sweeps and "dilation before labor," one can just as easily inquire or look up a few abbreviations. Since many like to bring up how easy it is to search things.

Some people prefer having technical/medical terms in a context that warrants it. There aren't layman's terms for all of the abbreviations. OA, LOA and the other presentations can be described, but then that's just too wordy (so one would get accused of being much too verbose, if not already), and Bishop's score is just that. A calculation to determine cervical ripeness for induction. I even posted a thread about it many weeks back for those with impending inductions. VE is often used to refer to vaginal exam and less commonly, vacuum extraction (since it is less common nowadays). It didn't take long for people to become familiar with EPO and RRL, or dilation, effacement and station. The more often terms are used, the more familiar they become.

I'm with you and not seeing what the big deal is. Maybe I'm a chronic researcher and it just bugs me to not know stuff. If I'm not familiar with something I look it up. I have to put things into layman's terms for patients all day because it's my job. On here I would assume that people 1. Will know what Im talking about, 2. Look it up if they care to or 3. Skip it because they're not interested. I never would have expected to anyone to care enough to do a word count on a post.