<p>The practice of medicine has advanced dramatically in recent years, but the language used to discuss illness ? by medical practitioners, patients and carers ? has not kept pace. As a result, clinicians and, just as importantly, patients and their relatives and carers, are not able to communicate clearly in relation to illness. The upshot is misunderstanding and confusion on all sides.<br>In this ground-breaking book, Dr Fergus Shanahan, an emi...