The Cancer of Language

When you’d been doing your jobs for too long, this, is what might happen, even AFTER you’re out of the office, you’re still using the methods you worked in, to interact with everybody else, translated…

In the two weeks of finding out the answers for his patient, the doctor told the patient about a question that he doesn’t and may not ever have the answers to:

“Your symptoms ‘maybe’ a more serious condition.”

“We must give you a CT scan to ‘maybe’ understand what your illness looks like.”

“We’d ‘almost’ had success with the biopsy, looks like we’ll need surgery to get our sample.”

“the tumor is already at your thoracic walls, surgery ‘shouldn’t’ be that difficult.”

“If we are able to remove the cancer completely, the prognosis is ‘usually’ great.”

He just could never use the assuring, affirming tone of voice, to help the patients soothe their worries, and give the patient the resolution s/he needed.

He knew, that medicine is not mathematics, and, logic usually hits the walls, and, the name of the game is uncertainty.

He’d gotten diagnosed with a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, in his sentences, he’d needed to add a bit of a guessing statement, the cancer of language.

And so, this may be the doctor’s having to deal with all the inquiries of his patients, after all, if you do something in the job all the time, then, you’ll internalize that particular behavior, and start using it in other areas of your life, and that, is what’s happening to the doctor here.