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Thank you for a most interesting report. Health professionals use language such as 'multimorbidity' without thinking of how words are experienced by patients. When we use medical terminology, we need to carefully consider unintended interpretations by patients. If a term makes patients uncomfortable, it only makes sense to use different language.
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