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Medical language, chemo brain & heatwaves

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What's the Difference Between a Doctor and a Patient?

We usually say, if some one's displaying these signs of heat exhaustion, they need to be called down. If those measures don't call some one down within 30 minutes, that might mean its progress to heat stroke. But also if people are displaying more serious symptoms, whe they're confused, really drowsy, really fast breathing, then yes, that certainly is ambulance time. And it's particularly the language that doctors use when they're talking either to or about their patients and whether it just belittles and blames us all.

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