Battle of models
I was following the conference on the psychological and social approaches to psychosis (#ISPS2017UK). One of the tweets included Jim van Os’ juxtaposition of the medical recovery model with the personal one. In this post I want to offer comments of a linguist.
What a patient wants
This post, as often happens, starts with a sentence, two, actually. As ever, I want to look at them closely and see what they mean. And then I want to ask the question of rational decisions. Continue reading “What a patient wants”
Certainty matters
I am delighted to report that my short piece on language in medicine has just been published in Sexually Transmitted Infections. In contrast to much discussion among medics, my piece is a linguist’s reflection on medics’ and patients’ language. In today’s post, I want to explore one of the issues I raised in the text: certainty.
Words in medicine
It all started with this tweet and the question of what kind of terms should not be used in medicine. And so I want to write about words which should not be used.