Tergiversiwhattheheck???
The Cheerful Oncologist is at it again …
In this post, the good doctor gives us some insight into why we sometimes feel that our physicians appear to be using unintelligible double-speak when “letting us in” on what makes us tick (or not) … *cough* …
“Sometimes doctors have to provide counseling in such a manner as to not create a wailing morass of distraught relatives who become a whirling dervish of misinformation and despair. You may call it tergiversation, but we pros call it diplomacy.”
… methinks he “tergiversates” even as he explains that he “tergiversates!” ;-)
(Nota bene: Intended as gentle ribbing … the CO writes very well, and I don’t for a minute believe he really tergivesates! >:-)
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