Metaphors mean a lot of things they can be good or bad, coming from Dhruv Khuller, it depends on who you are and where you came from that decides on which they are. Metaphors used in the hospital setting, specifically medicine metaphors Khullar talks about can give doctors a way to be on a common language ground with their patient. The patient is the one who decides if what the doctor is saying is good or bad and gives the metaphors that are used a power.
I have always believed that metaphors can be as powerful as one believes, Dhruv Khullar gets at this idea in his article, “The Trouble With Medicine’s Metaphors. There are two ways to look at a situation, in this case, military metaphors in relations to illnesses. When given a metaphor someone can look at it in a positive way or a negative way, it all comes from who they are and how they grew up. I think that hearing a metaphor about being a soldier when I am sick would encourage me more to fight the illness, instead of keeping what I am feeling inside and down.
In Gaery’s TED talk he says, “The first step is pattern recognition.” This gets at the idea that metaphors are useful in the matter of pursuing health, we relate to healthy objects and things when we want to be healthy. We look for patterns when searching for a cure or thriving health.
Erard gave us the metaphor about the room and he said, “You have to give them furniture to sit on that makes your architectural choices unavoidable.” I think this quote fits with how we perceive our bodies, we do what we want to our bodies to show who we are and we see our bodies as something that relates to other things with the use of metaphors.
“[T]hinking of their treatment course as a fight or battle may be helpful, an important part of their journey, invoking ideals of courage, resilience, and determination.” This comes from “The Trouble With Medicine’s Metaphors” I chose this because I feel it really shows that metaphors can be very useful when we are sick because it gives us a way to look at being sick.
You chose some wonderful quotes. Nice work!
Continue to work on that top summarizing paragraph. One important aspect of summary is that it distills a text to its most essential elements, and this generally includes a text’s central argument. Khullar’s central argument specifically targets medicine’s metaphors. Consider adding at least one more sentence so that your reader better understand this point.