Caring, killing, euphemism and George Orwell: How language choice undercuts our mission

Intellectual freedom versus economic centralization 1984 and George Orwell ’ s

TO THE END of his life, George Orwell remained a socialist. In “Why I Write” (1946), we find his programmatic statement: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.”* Orwell had fiercely attacked the attitude of capitalist society towards the poor in Down and Our in...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Down and almost out in Scotland: George Orwell, tuberculosis and getting streptomycin in 1948.

Caring for our patients.

Elkeen weet wat die gehalte van versorging wat die verpleegkundige aan haar pasiënte gee behoort te wees. Word hierdie behoort te wees egter so oorgedra na die werklike situasie? Dié vraag word objektief beskou aan die hand van navorsing oor pasiënt-tevredenheid, voorligting oor borsvoeding, die sterwende pasiënt en drukplekversorging. Die verpleegkundige moet haar pasiënt nie net met haar gevo...

Revising Our Mission