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good example of poor word choice...

HelmsHelms
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Re: good example of poor word choice...

  • HelmsHelms

    sorry...1st tri missed abortion post

     

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  • JCM083009JCM083009
    Yeah it doesn't sound good, but that's the medical term technically.
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  • efortuneefortune member

    I see nothing...

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  • HelmsHelms

    imageJCM083009:
    Yeah it doesn't sound good, but that's the medical term technically.

    totally agree...i let her know that abortion can be a sensitive word on these boards...

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  • janice74janice74 member
    people need to relax, that is the medical term, though I would not use it in casual conversation
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  • margeincharge2margeincharge2
    I know it's not the best term in the world but it is the technical term. My doctor used it on us a few times when I kept having bleeding during my first trimester.
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  • HelmsHelms
    point taken.
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  • KRISTI88MAMAKRISTI88MAMA
    imageefortune:

    I see nothing...

    We must be the only two, I don't see anything either!

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  • alicia11780alicia11780
    I can't see anythihng.  Just a scroll bar with the post title.
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  • Ali-BAli-B
    I can't see it either.
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  • FLVintageBrideFLVintageBride
    I think it's absurd that people freak out about medical terminology.  It's just a word- it can't upset you or hurt your feelings unless you let it.  Instead of responding to the poster's fears and feelings everyone jumped all over her b/c her wording hurt their feelings.
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  • AllisonLeighAllisonLeigh member

    https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/15582899.aspx

     

     

    here you go

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  • BlairWaldorfBlairWaldorf member

    I see nothing wrong with using the word "abortion" in that term.  It's medical; nothing more, nothing less.

    & actually, I am thankful that about a year ago, a girl on the boards made it public that after a D&C or D&E, your records read "abortion."   so I wasn't shocked when it happened to me.

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  • heather_09_15_07heather_09_15_07 member

    imageFLVintageBride:
    I think it's absurd that people freak out about medical terminology.  It's just a word- it can't upset you or hurt your feelings unless you let it.  Instead of responding to the poster's fears and feelings everyone jumped all over her b/c her wording hurt their feelings.

    This. People are ignorant.

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  • HelmsHelms
    i'm really sorrySad i definitely didn't think this would get so heated.
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  • WildHorseFeathersWildHorseFeathers
    No link, just a bar...
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  • Ali-BAli-B
    Why is abortion a touchy word regardless if it's being used to describe either miscarriages or terminations?  I don't get it. 
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  • alicia11780alicia11780

    Having been to an ER and been diagnosed with a threatened abortion, as the paperwork stated, and then my OB diagnosing a missed abortion, I am not offended by the term.  Medical terms are not meant to be happy or make us patients feel better. 

    Don't get me wrong.  On a pregnancy board people are gonna get offended by the term abortion but she was not referring to the act of willingly aborting a pregnancy.  She was asking a question about a medical issue and was completely correct in using the medical term.

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  • jhelly77jhelly77 member
    Reading some of those responses angered me as someone who had to learn all those terms to pass my OB rotation.  People need to check their facts before they go off on someone for using proper terminology.
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  • iowagirl73iowagirl73 member
    Poor word choice due to the connotation of the word abortion, but technically she called it the correct thing.
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