lostonearth35 wrote:
I heard that some doctors, in the US anyway, refer to their patients just by their ailments and not by their actual names, like "the diabetes" or "the appendicitis". As if the patients weren't actually people.
Of course, those are real diseases and not a person's mind just working in a different way.
Yes and the doctor's job is pretty much limited to dealing with the ailment. Holistic healthcare would likely be better, but it's probably a luxury most of us can't afford, and doctors, much like most professionals, are in a hurry to get the most results from the least labour time.