My doctor said I have a virus and I should “act like I’m sick.”  So I’m resting and taking lots of fluids

and reading Salman Rushdie’s Luca and the Fire of Life.  To my surprise, I found in this fabulous foray

into the World of Magic a pair acronyms that might have originated in the World of Medicine.  Each

elegantly describes a health systems factor that limits patients’ ability to obtain, process and understand

information needed to make appropriate health decisions:

P2C2Es:  Processes Too Complicated To Explain

M2C2Ds:  Machines Too Complicated To Describe