HLOL Podcast Transcripts Here are links to written transcripts for many of Helen Osborne’s HLOL podcasts: The Opioid Crisis and Health Literacy (HLOL #180) Plain Language: It’s About Smartening Up, Not Dumbing Down (HLOL #179) Visual Metaphors: When Words Alone Are Not Enough (HLOL #178) Health Literacy and Justice-Involved Individuals (HLOL #177) Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science: Using Improv to Communicate with Your Audience in Effective and Engaging Ways (HLOL #176) Making Lab Test Results More Meaningful (HLOL #175) Dream Big: Making a Health Literacy Difference Within an Organization and Beyond (HLOL #174) Talking About Ticks and Other Environmental Health Concerns. (HLOL #173) Digital Content Strategy: Being Agile When Communicating About Health (HLOL #172) Consider Culture and Language When Communicating About Health (HLOL #171) Wellness, Women, and Health Literacy (HLOL #170) Law Enforcement, Risk Management, and Health Literacy (HLOL #169) Advance Care Planning: Communicating Clearly Before There Is a Crisis (HLOL #168) Efforts to Improve the Readability of Medication Labels (HLOL #167) Using Technology to Share and Communicate the Experience of Illness (HLOL #166) Each Patient’s Information Journey (HLOL #165) Best Case/Worst Case: A Strategy to Manage Uncertainty in Shared Decision-Making (HLOL #164) Older Adults, Brain Changes, and Health Understanding (HLOL #163) Deconstructing Stigma: A Very Public Multimedia Project about Mental Illness (HLOL #162) Health Literacy & Consumer Health Librarians (HLOL #162) Reaching Out to Elected Officials about Health and Health Literacy (HLOL #160) Communicating About Food in Culturally Sensitive Ways (HLOL #159) Participants, Providers, and Policy Makers Working Together for Better Care (HLOL #158) End of Life Education (HLOL #157) Public Communication: Paying Attention to What We Say and Write (HLOL #156) Thinking Big About Health Literacy (HLOL #155) Open Notes: Building Transparency, Trust, and Better Health Outcomes (HLOL #154) Making Personal Health Records Accessible to All (HLOL #153) After Visit Summaries (HLOL #152) Making a Case to Senior Leaders about Health Literacy (HLOL #151) Ethics to Consider When Communicating About Health (HLOL #150) Working with Journalists to Communicate about Health (HLOL #149) Lawyers Can Help with Health Literacy, Too (HLOL #148) Children, Media, and Positive Health Messaging (HLOL #147) Implicit Bias: A Factor in Health Communication (HLOL #146) Patients as Consumers: Physician Conflict of Interest (HLOL #145) Research to Practice: How Much Patient Teaching is Enough? (HLOL #144) Creating Videos of Patients’ Stories to Inspire and Remind Caregivers About Why Their Work Matters (HLOL #143) What To Do When Teaching About the Flu (HLOL #142) Literacy & Health Literacy (HLOL #141) Ethnodrama: Conveying Health Concepts in Culturally Relevant Ways (HLOL #140) Health Literacy and The Joint Commission (HLOL #139) Reporting about the Patient Experience (HLOL #138) How to Find and Use Health Apps (HLOL #137) Communicating About Health with LGBTQ Youth (HLOL #136) Reviewing Health News (HLOL #135) Translating Health Information (HLOL #134) Improving the Patient Experience: How Healthcare Settings Can Build on Strategies that Work Well in Hotels (HLOL #133) Helping Teens Transition from Pediatrics to Adult-Centered Care (HLOL #132) A Patient’s Perspective about Health Communication (HLOL #131) Health Literacy and Hearing Loss (HLOL #130) Teach-back (HLOL #129) Why Health Professionals Should Go Online (HLOL #128) Partnering with the Media to Promote Health Literacy (HLOL #127) Research About Using the Milliliter as a Standard Unit for Liquid Medication (HLOL #126) Talking with Children about Troublesome Family Issues (HLOL #125) Health Literacy Screening Tools (HLOL #124) Health Literacy & the Newly Insured (HLOL #123) Disruptive Innovation: The Next Generation of Health Literacy Products and Services (HLOL #122) Learning and Teaching about Health & Insurance (HLOL #121) Patients Unlike Others You’ve Treated Before (HLOL #120) Before You Teach Find Out What Learners Know, Feel, and Believe (HLOL #119) Communicating with Compassion (HLOL #118) Consultations are Conversations: How Clinicians and Patients Can Help (HLOL #117) Creating A Health Awareness Campaign (HLOL #116) Health Literacy & New Technology: An App Challenge (HLOL #115) IOM’s Health Literacy Roundtable (HLOL #114) Presenting Data in Ways that Work for Most People, Most of the Time (HLOL #113) Using Body & Voice to Communicate About Health (HLOL #112) Dentists and Patients: How to Communicate Clearly (HLOL #111) Comics and Medicine: That’s Health Literacy, Too (HLOL #110) PEMAT: Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (HLOL #109) CDC’s Clear Communication Index (HLOL #108) Health Literacy and Pediatrics (HLOL #107) WikiProject Medicine: What It is, Why It Matters, How Health Literacy Advocates Can Help (HLOL #106) Creating a Sustainable Health Literacy Business Model (HLOL #105) Choosing Wisely: A Campaign Helping Patients Be Engaged Consumers (HLOL #104) Health Literacy & Hearing Loss (HLOL #103) When Communicating Risk, Consider What Patients Need and Want to Know (HLOL #102) Communicating Clearly During Transitions of Care (HLOL #101) Stages of Change & Health Communication (HLOL #100) Poetry and Other Artful Ways to Communicate Health Messages (HLOL #99) Communicating Clearly in a Crisis (HLOL #98) Communicating Results of Mammograms and Other Screening Tests (HLOL #97) Diagnosing Your Practice with Low Health Literacy (HLOL #96) How Visual Cues Help Readers Read (HLOL #95) Talking About Jargon (HLOL #94) A Conversation about the Always Use Teach-back Technique! Toolkit ((HLOL #93) Numeracy, Chronic Disease, and Repeat Emergency Room Visits or Hospitalizations (HLOL #92) Helping People Learn About Health in India (HLOL #91, video) Writing About Health for the New York Times (HLOL #90) Health Education for Children with Disabilities (HLOL #89) Health Literacy and Patient Safety (HLOL #88) Choosing A Health Plan: Ways to Make This Experience Easier and More Consumer-Friendly (HLOL #87) Making Research Consent Forms Easier for Patients to Understand (HLOL #86) How to Create and Run Successful Health Literacy Conferences (HLOL #85) Making A Business Case for Plain Language (HLOL #84) Clearly Communicating Scientific Information (HLOL #83) Attributes of Health Literate Organizations (HLOL #82) The Future of US Healthcare (HLOL #81) Using Twitter and Other Social Media to Communicate About Health Literacy (HLOL #80) Understanding One Another Even When Language and Accents Differ (HLOL #79) A Tool That Pictures Pain (HLOL #78) Dr Howard K Koh, Assistant Secretary for HHS, Talks About Boosting Health Literacy to Move Beyond the Cycle of Costly Crisis Care (HLOL #77) Ergonomics: Staying Healthy While Using Technology (HLOL #76) Consumer Reports Health Ratings (HLOL #75) Advocacy–From Aha to Action (HLOL #74) Plain Writing Act of 2010 (HLOL #73) Power of Stories in Patient and Family-Centered Care (HLOL #72) Talking About Medical Debt (HLOL #71) Animal-Human Bond in Healthcare (HLOL #70) Problematic Words in Health Research (HLOL #69) Creating Usable, Useful Health Websites for Readers at All Levels (HLOL #34) A Participatory Approach for Communicating with Diverse Audiences (HLOL #31) Making a Business Case to Move Health Literacy Forward (HLOL #30) Using Design to Get Readers to Read and Keep Reading (HLOL #29) Dr. Rima Rudd Talks About the Health Literacy Burden in Healthcare (HLOL #15) Len & Ceci Doak Discuss Health Literacy’s Past, Present, and Future (HLOL #13)