Following Doctor’s Orders Isn’t Hard, if You Can Read
24th July 2007
NYT. Of course the writer, being a journalist, thinks this means that we ought to make special efforts to accommodate “low-literacy patients”. The rational response, of course, is to point out to “low-literacy patients” that becoming “high-literacy patients” might mean they won’t die, and leave the rest to their own personal decisions. Empowerment, that’s what we’re talking about here.