Yeah, that's always scary. Very much the opposite of English, I think-- and if I were a patient, I'd want the doctor to talk about my body in ways I understood.
You know the other one that drives me nuts-- not an acronym, but a word that might as well be? "Trauma." I mean, if the person was, say, held at gunpoint, or raped by her father for years and years, I'd want to respect him/her and his/her experience enough to acknowledge that, rather than just say "there was trauma." I mean, sometimes people don't want to talk about it, and that's worth respecting-- but I hate the person's doctors/shrinks trying to hide behind a nice, neutral word to avoid dealing with thinking about what the person's been through, because gods know, the person can't.
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Date: 2007-05-08 05:04 pm (UTC)You know the other one that drives me nuts-- not an acronym, but a word that might as well be? "Trauma." I mean, if the person was, say, held at gunpoint, or raped by her father for years and years, I'd want to respect him/her and his/her experience enough to acknowledge that, rather than just say "there was trauma." I mean, sometimes people don't want to talk about it, and that's worth respecting-- but I hate the person's doctors/shrinks trying to hide behind a nice, neutral word to avoid dealing with thinking about what the person's been through, because gods know, the person can't.
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