Hey fellow redditor, Not sure which profession you’re in, but I finished my program as a physical therapist a few months ago, and am currently working. I know how you feel. You have all the terms in your head, you know the medical jargon, and you know how to approach a situation - but that speech causes such a huge obstruction. Remember that with many patients, you often don’t need fancy scientific language because it often goes over their head - they often want the simple explanation to what’s going on, and what can be done to help. Medical words can act as a nocebo because they can’t understand it and will catastrophize the word meaning (ex: when ppl hear “arthritis”, they’ll often think omg my body is degenerating and withering away when that’s not the case. But I digress) Idk if you’re looking for any advice, so apologies in advance, but I just wanna give my 2 cents what’s helped me personally: I like to practice simple explanations and limit medical jargon. It keeps the idea not only simple for me, but for the patients as well so they can understand. With peers and colleagues, it’s a bit tougher sometimes. I do my best to say what I want to say, but when I anticipate a medical word will present a problem, I’ll always do my best to preface the word with a phrase that’ll soften my approach to say the “difficult” word. Sometimes, medical jargon is unavoidable and we may need to go through that brief struggle. But overall, I keep my medical jargon minimal unless necessary and implement above strategy as needed, and that’s worked well so far. Overall, you’re not alone. I have my days when I trip up too. But I believe in continuing to move onwards and experimenting with different ways to approach words, phrases, or explanations. We’re in this together!