Barbara Russell
♪"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"♪ is a familiar idiom. It certainly wasn't true during childhood and it's not really true in adulthood. But it's a fitting opener for this blog entry. The type of words I want to examine here are adjectives. More specifically, three adjectives still used in conversations between clients and health care workers or among health care workers. One of them has been critiqued ethically quite a bit; the other two less so.
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