It is super bizarre how against this the author is, considering they literally put no effort to assume the best intentions.
A huge component of being a human doctor is talking to humans. When you’re a doctor this isn’t just a thing on the side, this is a major component of what you do.
being reminded that instead of “morbidly obese” vs “person suffering from sever obesity” is not like a bad thing.
Any way, I just find the tone of this article bizarre. They’re acting like something is being taken away from all of us, even though this os literally just for doctors, and it’s about sort of negative terms anyways that doctors may use without realizing that there may be a more effective way to communicate the same thing.
Edit: tl;dr acting like this is about wokeness when it’s not
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 19.9 ms ] threadA huge component of being a human doctor is talking to humans. When you’re a doctor this isn’t just a thing on the side, this is a major component of what you do.
being reminded that instead of “morbidly obese” vs “person suffering from sever obesity” is not like a bad thing.
Any way, I just find the tone of this article bizarre. They’re acting like something is being taken away from all of us, even though this os literally just for doctors, and it’s about sort of negative terms anyways that doctors may use without realizing that there may be a more effective way to communicate the same thing.
Edit: tl;dr acting like this is about wokeness when it’s not
Equality -> Equity
Fairness -> Social Justice
Race-based -> Raced-concious
Illegal immigrant -> Undocumented immigrant
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I'm not cherrypicking, skim through the document and see for yourself. [1]
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211101000458/https://www.ama-a...