Health and Medicine

Metaphors from medicine, disease, healing, diagnosis, and bodily health.

Entries (33)

• A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure metaphor
• All Bleeding Stops metaphor
• Cryonics Is Death Deferral metaphor
• Differential Diagnosis metaphor
• Do As Much Nothing As Possible metaphor
• First Do No Harm metaphor
• Health Is Up; Sickness Is Down metaphor
• Hoofbeats, Think Horses mental-model
• If You Don't Look, You Won't Find metaphor
• Illness Is an Invader metaphor
• Knowing When Not to Operate metaphor
• Love Is a Patient metaphor
• Mental Health Is Physical Health metaphor
• Never Let the Sun Set on Undrained Pus metaphor
• Pendulation metaphor
• Prognosis as Forecast metaphor
• Rehab pattern
• Second Opinion metaphor
• See One, Do One, Teach One pattern
• Seed and Soil metaphor
• Side Effects metaphor
• Surgical Precision metaphor
• Take Your Own Pulse metaphor
• The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease metaphor
• The Patient Is the One with the Disease metaphor
• The Retrospectoscope mental-model
• Tincture of Time metaphor
• Treat the Patient, Not the Test mental-model
• Triage metaphor
• Tricorder Is Universal Sensor metaphor
• Vital Signs metaphor
• When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses mental-model
• Young Doctors Kill, Old Doctors Let Die metaphor