A nation of people called patients.

نویسنده

  • W G Pickering
چکیده

The implications of the causal and ubiquitous use, by doctors health-workers and politicians, of the word 'patient' are here discussed. Given that the many implications of this noun do not include health or normality (rather the contrary), it is questionable who, if anyone, profits from its indiscriminate use--and its use, even, at all.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of medical ethics

دوره 17 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1991