I find the article's commentary on the apparent callousness of accepted medical terminology interesting, particularly:
"...in some cases, doctors say they are now being more careful about what they put in your chart, to avoid hurt feelings caused by medical terminology."
This can be taken any number of ways. It's a bad idea to put anything in a chart that someone could be offended over in a courtroom, or the court of public opinion - online (fabricated or not) reviews. There's ways of getting around formal chart entries, such as an alert that pops up when the chart is accessed that says "personal hygiene a sensitive topic", but isn't technically part of the medical record for anyone but the staff to see.
But I digress.
Can a pro-life doctor reserve the word "abortion" for the murder of pre-born human beings, or do legal medical regulations require them to do otherwise?
The article's argument that a patient's objection might be based upon ignorance or a misunderstanding of terminology is insulting.
I am saddened to find that the word "abortion" appears to be medically accepted as interchangeable with "miscarriage." I have seen "abortion" euphemistically referred to as [deliberately] "induced miscarriage", and it nauseates me.
Your thoughts?
If the Philippines want to become the mecca of medical tourism, they need to explicitly guarantee confidentiality of medical records and they’ll make a killing.
Waaaaay back when I was still “in production,” they called a miscarriage a “spontanious abortion.”
My thought is that they are distinct, and that it matters, because we know the government and the abortion lobby will try to use these numbers in some way to support their agenda. Who knows but that they may try to portray women who have had a miscarriage, as supporting abortion?
I sympathize with the lady. We lost one.
People actually OFFENDED by this need to grow up.... Its a medical term known as a “Spontaneous Abortion”. They can also be referred to as a fetal demise, depending on the circumstances..... I think. ( before becoming a Nurse Practitioner, my wife used to be an RN in OBGYN)
It’s not to be taken personally — it’s a medical record. However, it’s obviously a sensitive topic, whichever side of the aisle the patient is on. Accuracy and specificity are required in any medical document, and I don’t think the unqualified term “abortion” is appropriate.
Technically, if a fetus is not carried to term, it’s aborted. Part of a woman’s obstetrical history includes the number of times she’s been pregnant, the number of deliveries, number of abortions (of any kind), and how many live births. Such information should always be obtained with a degree of sensitivity in mind.
The words that jumped out at me were “morbidly obese”. Sounds like she has bigger problems to worry about.
The same medical terminology can be used for a D&C....if it aborts a pregnancy...
Here we go again. I guess niggardly isn’t the only word that is not pc.
There are 4 types of abortion and abortion is a medical term. Most women use the term miscarriage but that is a lay mans term.....You can have an inevitable abortion which means you are going to spontaneous abort. or a threatened abortion which usually means a pregnancy is in danger of an abort..... therapeutic abortion.... which is what most people call abortion..Cannot remember the other type and I’d have to dig out my nursing bible and its too late at night...
the technical term for an early miscarriage is an “abortion”.
What laypeople call an “abortion” is called an “induced abortion”.
If it occurs later than 12 weeks, it is called a second trimester abortion.
If the miscarriage comes after viability, it is called premature labor.
To confuse matters, in most early miscarriages, in the first 6 to 8 weeks, there is no fetus (which is why the pregnancy spontaneously ended itself).
and if the baby dies or never forms, but you don’t pass the fetal sac, it is called a “missed abortion”.
The word ‘abortion” is an abortion.....it’s really MURDER. A Miscarriage is an act of God.....Murder is an act of the Mother.
The woman should have picked up Mr. Webster’s handy book and looked up abortion. http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/abortion The doctor was correct even by the devout Bible scholar Noah Webster’s definition of the word in his 1828 Dictionary.
The problem with people today is that they receive too much information from sources that don’t know what they are talking about, using words that have many meanings. The general media and politically correct individuals/groups are the major culprit information source.
People must understand that many fields have their own specific terminology with well defined definitions that do not always match that of the general media’s usage or the dictionary’s definition. Medicine, Law, the Trades, etc.
Think of all the words the far left has bastardized: gay, ...phobia. hateful, racist, ...
abortion (AB)
Type: Term
Pronunciation: ă-bōr′shŭn
Definitions:
1. Expulsion from the uterus of an embryo or fetus before viability (20 weeks' gestation [18 weeks after fertilization] or fetal weight less than 500 g). A distinction made between abortion and premature birth is that premature infants are those born after the stage of viability but before 37 weeks' gestation. Abortion may be either spontaneous (occurring from natural causes) or induced (artificially or therapeutically).
2. The arrest of any action or process before its normal completion.
miscarriage
Type: Term
Pronunciation: mis-kar′ăj
Definitions:
1. Layperson's term for spontaneous expulsion of the products of pregnancy before the middle of the second trimester; no longer accepted in clinical usage.
Synonyms: spontaneous abortion
We keep conceding the language to the left.
Pro-Life? Arguably not if you believe some people should be executed or stopped on the spot, even if they die as a result.
Pro-Choice? Arguably not if you believe people should not be allowed to choose to arm themselves or to deny service for religious reasons.
In regard to the abortion issue, people are for abortion-on-demand or against abortion-on-demand.
"Spontaneous Abortion" is a medical term and has been for a long while.
Should the language of medicine be "living" or should we learn what the words mean? Should the language of the Constitution be "living" or should we learn what the words mean?
Euphemisms are powerful things.
Consider that "miscarriage" is a euphemism for "spontaneous abortion".
The article's argument that a patient's objection might be based upon ignorance or a misunderstanding of terminology is insulting.
The truth can be insulting, but it's still the truth.
The medical profession has always called a miscarriage an abortion — even before abortion was legal. Usually the word “spontaneous” was attached to the word “abortion”. I know because I used to be a medical records secretary in my youth.