Weekly Round Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading
Monthly Archive: December, 2015
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Fighting, battling, and beating: combat metaphors in medicine are just wrong
Originally posted on Heart Sisters:
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters Are you “battling” heart disease”? Have you “beaten” cancer? Are you “fighting” a chronic illness? These wartime references are metaphors as described by Dr.…
