10 metaphor on medicine
Answers
Answered by
1
♥
Parental (paternalistic) metaphor
Disease is a threat or danger (“She’s too sick to know the truth”)
Physician is a loving parent/ patient is a child (“We don’t want him to lose hope”)
Engineering metaphor
Disease is malfunction (“He’s in for a tune-up”)
Physician is an engineer or technician (“Something’s wrong, doc – you fix it”)
Patient is a machine (“We need to ream out your plumbing”)
War metaphor
Disease is the enemy (“I treat all my patients aggressively”)
Physician is a warrior captain (“She’s a good fighter”)
Patient is a battleground (“The war on cancer”)
Parental (paternalistic) metaphor
Disease is a threat or danger (“She’s too sick to know the truth”)
Physician is a loving parent/ patient is a child (“We don’t want him to lose hope”)
Engineering metaphor
Disease is malfunction (“He’s in for a tune-up”)
Physician is an engineer or technician (“Something’s wrong, doc – you fix it”)
Patient is a machine (“We need to ream out your plumbing”)
War metaphor
Disease is the enemy (“I treat all my patients aggressively”)
Physician is a warrior captain (“She’s a good fighter”)
Patient is a battleground (“The war on cancer”)
Similar questions