Always excited to think with and hear from @GretchenSchwa10: how can we have better conversations about surgery? what frameworks can help us get to the conversations that really matter? If surgery is the solution, what is it the solution to?

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(We love this piece & think its exemplifies why @the_labcollab works: applying ling anth to medical communication questions to make sense of real-life data. Thanks @ardenmorris1 for bringing this question to us; we're so happy to have you as part of our team!).

If a patient thinks all cancer has been removed, they may not believe chemotherapy is necessary, leading to suboptimal cancer care. Phrases like "we got it all" should be used with caution and we need to recognize and better understand the impact of simple phrases.

Even if we do an A+ job of communicating this complexity, patients hear "we got it all" as "good news" even if the surgeon means "we got it all" as "I did what I could do for you." Good/bad news and fixed/not-fixed are different conversations.

Because surgeons focus on therapeutic component of surgery, operations are framed to patients as a way of taking care of a problem, not of knowing how extensive the problem is. "We got it all" is thus (mis)interpreted as "the cancer is all gone.".

The patient hears: "we got it all" = we removed all the cancer! The surgeon means: we removed everything we could see/feel. But surgeons can't know whether they "got it all" bc surgery is therapeutic AND diagnostic, and path isn't back yet!.

How does a phrase like "we got it all" lead to miscommunication? In a viewpoint in @JAMAOnc, @surganthro @ardenmorris1 and Justin Clapp explore the unintended adverse effects of this simple phrase. (a 🧵).

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