I fully support everything that Richards says about health literacy1 and want to mention two things, one old and one new.When I was new to advocacy and to medical conferences (about 15 years ago), I was stunned to see people whinging about patients’ health literacy when, to my eyes, three quarters of the problem was how impenetrable the material was. I started saying in speeches that I refuse to discuss health literacy without considering at the same time the clarity of the material in question.Back then my understanding of empowerment was simplistic, yet even then I blogged that “clarity is power” and said: “Clarity is essential if we want to put knowledge—power and responsibility—in the hands of patients and families.”2The second item that’s already coming over the horizon is generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can take any chunk of text and simplify it. I fed ChatGPT my notes from a…
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