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.
Committing to ‘commit’?
This post is my reaction to another appeal to stop using the phrase ‘commit suicide’. It is likely to be controversial.