Vertigo is a symptom, not a diagnosis, and can be caused by loose rocks in the head
![Dizzy woman](https://www.ausdoc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dizzyness_dreamstime_m_112654507_sept2019-1.jpg)
I often hear patients speak of vertigo as if it were some brilliant diagnosis made by a genius emergency room doctor. Just because it’s a foreign word, that doesn’t make it any more clever than if they’d been told they were dizzy.
In my native Sweden, there seems to be a domestic lay word for almost every disease.