What does the wording ‘break down the silos’ mean to you?
What does the term ‘down-sizing’ mean to you?
I bring this up because I know that some of the words we use today don’t give the real meaning to those that hear them. For example ‘break down the silos’ means work together. The term ‘down-sizing’ can have a different definition depending on if you kept your job or lost it.
Why is it that in our world today that we can’t use words that have meaning? Why do we have to adjust our words to hide the truth in some cases?
Have we got so soft that we are afraid to be blunt?
What is wrong with communicating with meaning?
What can you do today that will cause some one to appreciate the way you you speak?
Very interesting that you should be writing about the meaning of the words we use now Tim.
An article in last Saturday’s National Post highlighted one of the biggest problems with medical care in this country. Too many old, terminal patients with little hope of recovery in scarce hospital beds.
The reason they are there instead of spending their last days peacefully in hospices or in private care is because many doctors are too timid to tell relatives the truth about the patients real condition.
Seriously ill instead of dying, is a common one. This encourages relatives to demand every intrusive means of life support available, prolonging the agony for themselves, the patient and medical staff.
He tells grieving relatives how uncomfortable it is to have a tube shoved down the throat, how CPR can break an elderly patients ribs and other indignities resulting from “resuscitate at all costs”.
With that information, relatives soon accept the inevitable and allow the patient to die with dignity and in peace.
Thanks for your comments Peter. It is interesting that your comments have taken my post in a different direction. I am pleased to respond to your comments about ‘dying with dignity’. If my understanding is correct it appears that with the doctor saying to the relatives how uncomfortable it is to have a tube shoved down the throat or that CPR can break ribs, does not understand what it means to care for a patient. Caring for a patient and dying with dignity are all about making sure that the person is cared for in the best way by making sure that their pain is eased with the use of medications. If the doctor won’t do that he is a quack and does not deserve to be called a ‘professional’.