In “The Trouble with Medicine’s Metaphors” by Dhruv Khullar is trying to tell the readers that metaphors are used often by doctors and by people who help people with an illness. These people are telling patients to fight through the illness. The first quote that caught my eye was “Did she, on some level, feel she lost the battle because she didn’t fight hard enough?” I picked this quote because I think everyone has a loved one that has gone through things where doctors say “fight” a week before coming to UNE my grandmother passed away from kidney failure that she was fighting since 2014. Unfortunately, she ended her battle with kidney failure on her own terms but stopping dialysis. I remember her always saying to me and my brother that she was a fighter and she was going to get through it but I think there was a point in time where she now that she was not going to get better. She said to me “I rather live a short and happy life with love and laughter than a long and sad life” The second quote that I liked was “The words we choose to describe illness are powerful.” I think when you put two very powerful things together it becomes more fragile. People get sick every day and no one should have to go through that, but with these doctors saying “fight” I think it could help but I don’t think it can help everyone.
