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Letter: Term time

Published 16 September 2000

From Tracey (surname withheld)

I was appalled by your use of personalised, stigmatic terms in “Breath test”
(5 August, p 18).
Individual people with schizophrenia are just that: people.
Not schizophrenics, not schizophrenic patients. In just the same way, if I had
cancer I would not want to be discussed as “the cancerous”.

Wembley, Western Australia

Issue no. 2256 published 16 September 2000

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