A concise description of systems factors in patient’s low health literacy

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