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Health scribes should also take the doctors’ oath

“A mosquito causes malaria’ and ‘a mosquito spreads malaria’ are two sentences that sound correct but are worlds apart. Such is science and medical reporting. One word could be the defining difference; and therein lays the challenge.

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