"Subjects" is considered dehumanizing. If it's a study of actual patients who received care (like, comparing treatment A with treatment B among all patients with disease X), then we use "patients." If it's a study with a control group/volunteers who aren't actually patients with a disease/medical problem/whatever, then we use "individuals" (and yeah, it's annoying).
I'm not saying some elements of our style aren't annoying, but my job isn't to establish and defend our style; it's just to edit stuff so it adheres to style. So when authors piss and moan about it even though they knew it would be happening, I just want to throat-punch them.
Can you approach the conversation with the mindset of "If you feel our style requirements distort your article, you do, of course, have the right to withdraw your article from our publication" ?
oh mac. in an old familiar cycle. rules are actually being enforced and he has packed a bag and "left". I'm starting a timer for 30 min, then I'll start looking I guess.
Can you approach the conversation with the mindset of "If you feel our style requirements distort your article, you do, of course, have the right to withdraw your article from our publication" ?
I'm positive I'm not allowed to say anything even hinting at that. I'm too low on the ladder. I'm not even an actual AMA employee.
Mac, get back home right now, mister!
I'm not saying some elements of our style aren't annoying,
Oh, no, I was just intrigued by the choice/reasoning...I'm very much of the "occasionally things at work are worth fighting for but often they're worth noting, maybe commenting on, and then moving the fuck on with life"
in an old familiar cycle. rules are actually being enforced and he has packed a bag and "left".
Oh mac. I just don't understand his thought processes...Hope all turns out as OK as it can.
Oh, msbelle. Parenting sure isn't for the faint of heart.
he never left the backyard I don't think. he's ridiculous. He was given the rules and explained how things would be on Friday. I mentioned things again yesterday, giving him 4 hours before bedtime to ask me any questions. he hasn't said boop, and now he is OUTRAGED that I should enforce things. He gets 2 hours of wifi tonight, but not unless he tells me when he wants it. dumbass.
Also, I'm probably just a theater geek, but last night at the vigil, the choir sang "We Shall Overcome" to open, and ...some song I didn't really know, to close? And what I really wanted to hear was "Seasons of Love"
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Oh, mac.
Jesse, if we need to switch I'm open to it. Mine are for the Tuesday after Easter.
I did wonder about that, so thanks for the offer! I think we can cross that bridge when we get to it (or like a month out?). By which time I will have had time to get pregnant and have a baby.
