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Don’t get me wrong, buzzwords are describe the moment in arc of
great fun, in any capacity. Who doesn’t television show when it begins a
love bemoaning a once lauded TV-
decline in quality; based on a scene
program's fall from greatness by saying from a fifth-season episode of the
they “jumped the shark?” Buzzwords
sitcom Happy Days when the
simply don't contain much substance
character Fonzie jumps over a shark
terms of long term value. During their while on water-skis).
relatively small window of
So, to the gatekeepers and
contemporary relevance, buzzwords
provide some enhancement to our
dispensers of medical information, be
responsible with buzzwords and use
language (think "Brangelina" from a
them sparingly, especially when it
few years back), but it’s a gimmick that comes to medicine. In the meantime,
will quickly devolve into more aqueous think about how you'll be explaining
terms which float, unconnected to
their original intended function,
flip phones to your grandkids.
begging to be explained and
contextualized by those old or cultured
enough to know. (Here's where I
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explain to those who don't know:
"Jumping the shark" is an idiom used to
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