I enjoyed reading this post of yours but cringed and had rigors when I saw you use the latest "buzzword du jour" -- I refer to this SPACE thing. All of a sudden, and for mysterious reasons, plenty of folks no longer talk or write about (for example) some development in the field of cardiology; instead they feel compelled to use the preci…
I enjoyed reading this post of yours but cringed and had rigors when I saw you use the latest "buzzword du jour" -- I refer to this SPACE thing. All of a sudden, and for mysterious reasons, plenty of folks no longer talk or write about (for example) some development in the field of cardiology; instead they feel compelled to use the precious verbiage, "cardiology space". Ditto for just about every other discipline or work activity that can be imagined for the human race.
Instead of saying that I took my Allen Edmonds loafers to a competent shoe repair shop last week, it is apparently now de rigueur to say instead, "I took my Allen Edmonds loafers last week to a guy who is very active these days in the shoe repair space". If you think I am being hyperbolic here, please think again! The unctuous, highly paid cretins who dominate healthcare administration in our country have recently added the noun SPACE to their list of automatic bullshit terminology. In other words, using the noun "space" is now a big fad in the Healthcare Administration SPACE. God help us. Please.
I am with you on the overuse of the term space. There are a gazillion others too. But I give Dr Mandrola a pass. Language has its fashions and trends and often without thinking we end up including these expressions in our own language. I have been living in Texas for 28 years and have resisted saying Y’all. I actually made a conscious effort not to, and now after all that effort Y’all is used by everyone everywhere. I look to Dr Mandrola only for medical expertise not language use. Although I think my red line is “chest feeding”. Chest feeding is actually on the CDC website last time I looked. I hope they have removed it in embarrassment and shame. Pregnant people. There’s another one. These new trendy expressions deny biology and logic. “Space” is more of a business expression. It replaces “market”. Both space and market turn medicine into a profit and loss business (and let’s not go there right now). Anyway, I am on team Mandrola, team logic, and team science. How about that, I just deployed a trendy language usage!
I enjoyed reading this post of yours but cringed and had rigors when I saw you use the latest "buzzword du jour" -- I refer to this SPACE thing. All of a sudden, and for mysterious reasons, plenty of folks no longer talk or write about (for example) some development in the field of cardiology; instead they feel compelled to use the precious verbiage, "cardiology space". Ditto for just about every other discipline or work activity that can be imagined for the human race.
Instead of saying that I took my Allen Edmonds loafers to a competent shoe repair shop last week, it is apparently now de rigueur to say instead, "I took my Allen Edmonds loafers last week to a guy who is very active these days in the shoe repair space". If you think I am being hyperbolic here, please think again! The unctuous, highly paid cretins who dominate healthcare administration in our country have recently added the noun SPACE to their list of automatic bullshit terminology. In other words, using the noun "space" is now a big fad in the Healthcare Administration SPACE. God help us. Please.
Add “reach out” to the hip new terminology that gags me every time I hear it (as in, “Reach out to us if you need help”). Jeez!
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I am with you on the overuse of the term space. There are a gazillion others too. But I give Dr Mandrola a pass. Language has its fashions and trends and often without thinking we end up including these expressions in our own language. I have been living in Texas for 28 years and have resisted saying Y’all. I actually made a conscious effort not to, and now after all that effort Y’all is used by everyone everywhere. I look to Dr Mandrola only for medical expertise not language use. Although I think my red line is “chest feeding”. Chest feeding is actually on the CDC website last time I looked. I hope they have removed it in embarrassment and shame. Pregnant people. There’s another one. These new trendy expressions deny biology and logic. “Space” is more of a business expression. It replaces “market”. Both space and market turn medicine into a profit and loss business (and let’s not go there right now). Anyway, I am on team Mandrola, team logic, and team science. How about that, I just deployed a trendy language usage!
I'm glad yawl decided against going into the Yawl Space.
I love the yawl space. I'd love a space yawl even more.