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From: sachin
Date: 15 Oct 2008
Time: 07:17:11 -0500
Remote Name: 220.224.5.169
Dear both Joes- thanks for the great contribution. But I am still a little confused. Even when you consider a purely (-largely, to be accurate) somatic phenomena like Tuberculosis or Cataract, I have seen that clients find it a little bit easier to communicate, if the doctor casually mentions - “Dont cough after surgery. I (-or even my sister-) had complications when I (or she) underwent surgery for cataract last year...” Is communication not about shared “meanings” (which come from shared experiences)? And is communication not an important part of therapeutic relationship? So, with other things being equal, should a stuttering (but competent) SLP not have a better chance of effective communication? I dont mean to say, that to treat Tuberculosis, I, as a doctor, have to have similar experience. But there is a difference in stammering and other largely somatic sicknesses: So much of stuttering experience is inner, fleeting, subjective, elusive to documentation - that it would be difficult for normal speakers to intuit it. Yes, I agree, that some day in future, when we have evolved a language and a medium of communication, 100 % efficient and transparent, any one would be able to understand any human experience and learn to deal with it as a healer.