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Thank you Jeff -- really enjoying your stuff!

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Thanks, Mark! That makes me happy.

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Head on. Spot on. We all need this reminder!

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"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--

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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Thanks for the link, Jeff! Following the rabbit...

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