This is only semi-serious, but actually sometimes it’s really unhelpful and makes a situation worse.
Every time I see any kind of health care professional they will use words like ‘sore’ and ‘discomfort’ when what they mean is ‘painful’ and ‘it fucking hurts’.
I heard it when I had a hysterectomy, when I’ve had biopsies, when I had my wisdom teeth out, when I broke my femur(?!?). None of those things were uncomfortable they hurt like fuck and not acknowledging that either makes you think it’s not going to be so bad (ie lumbar puncture) or makes you feel like you’re causing a fuss about nothing (definitely bloody not with a snapped thigh bone or a raging infection in my hysterectomy scar).
So why does it happen? Do they imagine it helps people? Because it doesn’t.
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AIBU to think that HCPs are allergic to the word pain??
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OwlBeThere · 26/05/2019 05:13
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