On Monday I posted about how doctors don't communicate to their patients well enough. Today I'd like to talk about something a bit outside the medical community, but still in the health industry. This week's word is Natural. I posted about this a few years ago, but thought it was appropriate to bring it back this week to share with you a very important distinction that is not usually made when advertising health related products. Natural By JoJo Tabares You may never know it by listening to political rhetoric, TV commercials or the main-stream media, but words actually mean things. Specific things! If we allow ourselves to get caught up in the current trend to re-define words and to use...
Have you subscribed to Communication FUNdamentals’ RSS Feed? Don’t miss a post! x Sometimes we use humor to make a point so that it's a memorable lesson. There's a comedian I've admired for many years whose comedy is like that. He teaches us lessons about life. The incomparable Mr. Bill Cosby is an incredible talent. Here he is in an early episode of The Cosby Show teaching his son a lesson in economics: I found a YouTube video of him hosting You Bet Your Life where a woman with a thick Southern accent talked about where she's from. She explained this confusing set of circumstances in a way that made it a bit MORE confusing. As is Bill Cosby's style,...
I was cleaning up my draft file a while back and found 109 articles or series of articles that I never finished. This one spoke to me and I thought I'd post it now. You may never know it by listening to political rhetoric, TV commercials or the main-stream media, but words actually mean things. Specific things! If we allow ourselves to get caught up in the current trend to re-define words and to use them as we see fit, we end up saying nothing of value. If we don't realize that today's societal trend is to adopt a Shakespearian attitude in applying meanings to words, we may be fooled into believing something that just isn't so. In the next...
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"I don't know!"
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