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Are you an "emotional female" droning on to your doctor, year after year. about “little things” like fibromyalgia, thyroid issues, insomnia, menopause, or hypoglycemia?  Have you encountered any of the following Doctor Talk only to become confused because your brain is fuzzy from lack of sleep or the pain that is "all in your head?"  Having trouble deciphering what your doctor means?  Maybe you need the... Secret Doctor Talk Decoder Ring: * All the tests came back negative. (Translation: I don’t know what else to do for you so you’ll just have to live with it.) * Maybe you should take a few days off work. (Translation: I don’t think there’s anything wrong with you, but you might feel better if you...

Since our Birthday Bash Contest is coming to a close this month, this week is Birthday Bash week here at Communication FUNdamentals.  Monday, I shared a Word Scramble with two ways to get extra points toward our Birthday Bash Grand Prize.  So...for this week's misused word, I'd like to share a bit about the word bash. This word has been thrown around a great deal recently to mean anything from attacking someone verbally to interpreting something someone said as in some way negative.  It's the latter I'd like to discuss here today. Are we all just too sensitive? Merriam Webster defines bash as "to attack physically or verbally."  However, I've seen situations where a person has taken something someone said...