SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Upper GI series Confused by medical lingo? If you are, you're not alone. Literacy problems create a silent health-care epidemic  Mar 7, 2007 A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1995 found that more than 80 percent of patients treated at two of the nation's largest public hospitals could not understand instructions written at the fourth-grade level for the preparation of gastrointestinal X-rays known as an upper GI series. A 1999 study of more than 3,200 Medicare recipients found that one in three native-born patients could not answer a question about normal blood sugar readings even after being... (Racine Journal Times, WI) Worrywart: She makes mountains out of moles  Nov 14, 2006 Every fall, he knows I am going to wreck one of his days off by scheduling a prostate exam or a colonoscopy or an upper GI series. He always gets a clean bill of health, but that doesn't mean anything because clean bills of health are like football tickets. (Orlando Sentinel) Pinkeye can be highly contagious  May 24, 2006 He saw a physician's assistant, who ordered an upper GI series. It was normal. (Herald-Tribune) Back to Health News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2008 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2008