An excerpt from The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics.
If one pays attention to the language used in the context of all of these developments, it is clear we have moved into an entirely new semantic environment. Just as in the civic realm the word “citizen” has almost entirely been replaced with the word “consumer,” so in medicine the word “patient” is slowly being replaced by the word …
Semantics and the subversive doctor
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