"Fighting cancer/ALS/dis-ease of some form"--always makes me pause. When my spouse was ill with ALS, I found it so useless--worse than useless--to be angry and in fighting mode. I needed to find another way, an put energy into that instead. You are so right.
I appreciate the provocative thoughts here! Very good. Thank you--
It's good to hear that from your own really difficult personal experience, Alison. When I googled 'war metaphors' I saw a raft of papers from medical academia saying can we please stop it with all the fighting talk? It's not helpful.
Really? That is so interesting. And makes me pause in my assumptions--that the med world has been on board with that language. Bu maybe it's just the fundraisers, and people who feel (understandable) anger over illness.
Thank you Jeff -- really enjoying your stuff!
Thanks, Mark! That makes me happy.
Head on. Spot on. We all need this reminder!
"Fighting cancer/ALS/dis-ease of some form"--always makes me pause. When my spouse was ill with ALS, I found it so useless--worse than useless--to be angry and in fighting mode. I needed to find another way, an put energy into that instead. You are so right.
I appreciate the provocative thoughts here! Very good. Thank you--
It's good to hear that from your own really difficult personal experience, Alison. When I googled 'war metaphors' I saw a raft of papers from medical academia saying can we please stop it with all the fighting talk? It's not helpful.
Really? That is so interesting. And makes me pause in my assumptions--that the med world has been on board with that language. Bu maybe it's just the fundraisers, and people who feel (understandable) anger over illness.
I don’t know how clinicians in general talk. I’m grateful to have very little experience with life threatening illness so far. Here’s one of my searches: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=stop+using+war+metaphors+-covid
There are so many rabbits you could disappear into. (I excluded Covid because there are a TON of people who don’t like war metaphors about Covid.)
Thanks for the link, Jeff! Following the rabbit...