Funny new names ending in “ist” . .

Three years ago when my back pain became a constant issue, I was told by my orthopedic doctor that I’d be referred to a “pysiatrist”.  “A WHAT?” I demanded?  I thought the referring physician didn’t know his English very well, and that he was trying to say “psychiatrist”.  No way would I ever go to a shrink! Then I [...]

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Earning that “degree” . . .

Back in the 1940s, my mother used to laugh about how doctors must get irritated when patients would come for their appointments armed with “knowledge” about their ailments–prefaced with the statement:  “I read about it in the Reader’s Digest.” Sixty plus years later, it’s hilarious to think that something so slim as the Reader’s Digest could inform [...]

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