Personal Narrative: My New Medical Terminology

When I first started to learn the world of medical terms I was completely overwhelmed with the amount of words that didn’t match anything I already knew. It was like I was learning an entire new language that was developed entirely to confuse someone like me; a person who has only spoken, read, and written in one language her entire life. To add to this confusion, I also soon discovered that many words were spelled and pronounced the same even though their definitions were entirely different. When I thought I found a way to remember a certain term and its definition, I later became more confused while gaining knowledge of additional comparable medical terms. Although medical terminology seems endless and offers no easy learning curve balls,