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...
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...
I've posted about this topic before. It seems doctors and their staff are not well trained in the art of eloquence. They tend to tell us what to do and are missing the gene that requires them to explain. Case in point, last week my father went in for an MRI of his hip/leg which has been bothering him for several years now. After arriving home, he was called with an urgent request to drop everything and rush back to the hospital because they found something unrelated that they were concerned about. No time to say hello, goodbye, you're late, you're late, you're late!! He raced back down there where they did all sorts of tests and told him to stay...
It's time again for Friday Funnies and since we are still celebrating Ronald Reagan's birthday this week, I thought I'd post a rare video of his appearance on What's My Line that I found on YouTube. Enjoy this vintage black and white humor spectical. If you liked this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed and share the link…
In honor of Ronald Reagn's birthday this week, the word of the week is humor. What is humor? Merriam Webster defines it as "a: that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous b: the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c: something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing." x Humor comes in many forms including: one liners, jokes, whiticisms, puns, slapstick, and sarcasm. Some humor involves the telling of stories and Ronald Reagan had plenty of them always at the ready. This is a rare YouTube video montage of his best Soviet Union jokes he loved to share. x If you liked this post, please subscribe...
