Day: 6 January 2023

The Importance of Not Using Metaphors to Describe Symptoms

Once in my teens, I went to see my usual doctor, a general practitioner, in what is now called Damansara Uptown. I was suffering from pretty bad diarrhoea. Time always seems to slow down when we are sick or in pain or need to urgently go to the bathroom. One minute is a century. After what felt like three centuries, I was finally called in by the nurse to see the doctor. I was impressed …

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