Continuing Education: The Power of Language—Empowering Social Work to Influence Word Choice in Patient-Centered Care
Continuing Education: The Power of Language—Empowering Social Work to Influence Word Choice in Patient-Centered Care
At the heart of communication in health care settings and beyond are decisions related to language and word choice. As palliative care has developed and been integrated across settings and diagnoses, phrases and concepts, such as “quality of life,” “goals of care” and “suffering,” weave across discussions, often without consciousness of the cultural, social, and