What's interesting is that 'patient' has two meanings: the normal one of a person receiving medical treatment; and a linguistic one - the semantic role of a noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action (by the action of a verb).
i have a concern that we are not seen to be trivialising the real human crises that these triage systems are meant for. on the other hand it has been common to use hospital based or medical subject matter for comedy and (light) entertainment. woody allen (i believe) stated that comedy is about time and distance. so long as something (a human disaster say) has happened long enough ago or far enough away, then you can make jokes about it. maybe a similar law applies to the practce of owrt. we will be in close proximity with a doctor's surgery here, though i guess, that's not the same as hospital A&E or a 'natural disaster' zone.
and there appear to be Bar Codes and No.s of some sort. Exciting stuff
ReplyDeleteI agree. I rate this, not sure about paintient term however.
ReplyDeleteYes Paintient does not roll off the tongue very well
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting is that 'patient' has two meanings: the normal one of a person receiving medical treatment; and a linguistic one - the semantic role of a noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action (by the action of a verb).
ReplyDeleteindeed doc. interesting
ReplyDeletei have a concern that we are not seen to be trivialising the real human crises that these triage systems are meant for. on the other hand it has been common to use hospital based or medical subject matter for comedy and (light) entertainment. woody allen (i believe) stated that comedy is about time and distance. so long as something (a human disaster say) has happened long enough ago or far enough away, then you can make jokes about it. maybe a similar law applies to the practce of owrt. we will be in close proximity with a doctor's surgery here, though i guess, that's not the same as hospital A&E or a 'natural disaster' zone.
ReplyDelete