Cancer, heart disease, diabetes — all of these are illnesses that have clinical names. Patients diagnosed with these health conditions sometimes find it empowering to know they have a specific diagnosis, and that a “label” has been put on their illness. For some, knowing the name of their illness provides a sense of control — by learning more about it and what a clinician is doing to help them, it helps to ease their concerns.. In this article on cancer, I discuss the importance of understanding the language of your disease. If you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you should do is learn the language of your diagnosis and treatment. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I enrolled in a support group at the hospital where I had my surgery. Knowing the clinical name for your health condition can be helpful in better understanding and treating it. And because medical professionals and researchers around the world use the same language when diagnosing and describing illnesses, knowing the clinical name is extremely useful. It’s also beneficial to know the clinical name of your health condition if you choose to have it written on an ICD-10 form. It is important to set yourself a challemge in life. Especially so if you have a chronic illness like multiple sclerosis because the challenge stretches your mind to build new neural connections. We’re so used to the idea of self-diagnosis that we rarely stop to consider how naming a health condition impacts an individual’s experience of it. If you search for the clinical name of any health condition you’ll instantly find thousands of people who have an opinion on whether it makes them feel better or worse. We can all agree that it’s important to take care of our health. The Internet has enabled patients to become more proactive about their health, and this also applies to the name of a condition. Being familiar with the clinical name, or the medical name, of a condition can make you feel more informed about your condition, and in turn, it may help you better communicate with your doctor. When you are chronically ill, it is easy to blame all health niggles on your underlying condition. But, you may have developed a completely un related complication. In an ideal world, you should know what your health condition is called and be able to find it listed in all the medical textbooks. Unfortunately, this is not always possible. What is a diagnosis exactly? A medically diagnosis is the name given to a health condition which may affect one or more organ systems. When you are sick, you want to know what your diagnosis is. It can help you feel like you are more in the driver’s seat of your treatment and recovery plan. If you are a caregiver, you need to know the clinical name of your loved one’s health condition to ensure that they are getting the right treatment and medication. The medical profession has a complicated relationship with the terminology it uses to name diseases. Many feel that using non-descriptive names for conditions such as “chronic fatigue syndrome,” “ME” and “FM” adds to the public’s already muddled understanding of these illnesses. Perhaps more so, people already suffering from a condition then feel stigmatized by their condition being given a name that is vague or not descriptive. The mere mention of a disease can be enough to cause a person distress, so it makes sense that there’s a push to consider changing the scientific names of diseases such as cancer. Cancer Research UK’s Professor Peter Johnson explained that giving diseases “better” names could help reduce the emotional burden of having a diagnosis. Getting to the truth behind your diagnosis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6422557/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6422557/
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AuthorStephen Walker has had MS since 1994. In that time, he has discovered how to live a fulfilling life with multiple sclerosis Archives
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