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As the board-certified doctor half of The Itch Podcast, Payel Gupta, MD, FACAAI, has become more skilled at breaking down medical jargon in a way that leaves patients feeling at ease rather than confused and lost.“A big part of the disconnect between what we want our patients to do and what our patients think we want them to do is because of the language that we use,” Gupta, chief
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