Don't Call it a Battle: Why We Need to Change our Metaphors for Serious Illness

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We often use words like fighting, battle, and war for illness like cancer, but is it fair? Battles have winners and losers, and our labels destine hard "fighters" to feel like a failure when illness advances. The harm is treatment is continued to the bitter end at any cost: emotionally, socially and financially. Can we do better?

Don't Call it a Battle: Why We Need to Change our Metaphors for Serious Illness

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