Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hovering and the Gerund Countdown

In the Disease Management Care Blog: "Hovering" - A New Term for Disease Management? Jaan Sidorov visits a recent NEJM article.

What surprises me is that the provider industry has adopted two "verbs as nouns" - hovering and huddling - that do them no favors in the patient engagement process. They connote the intrusive and exclusive. They're also comical. I think of Glinda and the Marx Brothers in "Horsefeathers."