The FBI's You, whose unit works with the scientific community to get researchers thinking about unanticipated outcomes of their work, said he had been encouraged that researchers had initiated the conversation in this case.
The GP's account acknowledges implicitly that this 'chat' is actually a potentially difficult conversation, in this case made 'much easier' (emphasised three times) by knowing the patient over many years.
Normally, prosecutors or court employees would read the transcripts, but there were so many recorded conversations in this case that the task was considered burdensome and boring.
"Unlike cocaine or heroin traffickers, who typically use coded language, and are cagey," Ms. Brennan said, the intercepted phone conversations in this case "were much more blatant or upfront than others we listen to".
For example, a patient complaining of "fatigue" may, upon prompting, report the constant, oppressive burden of a reflective, energy-consuming effort to decode and understand the meanings of ordinary, everyday conversations (in this case "fatigue" covers anomalous self-experiences, including loss of common sense, perplexity, and hyper-reflection).
Some might consider this censorship, and that's a whole other conversation, but in this case I think it's warranted to facilitate expression.
Spreading the word begins with one conversation, or in this case, watching a whimsical cartoon about how to prevent Lyme disease.
Conversation partners, in this case nursing staff, are trained to acknowledge the patient's competence using strategies such as natural adult talk and showing sensitivity to the person and context.
But when a meme like this becomes popular, the concept of Black Twitter is often erased from the conversation: in the case of Arthur, many websites wrote about the phenomenon without referencing who came up with it.
Something more structured is more fair: a weekly check-in or coffee date, an agreement to go "no contact" with the exception of emergencies or polite conversation in the case of a chance encounter, any arrangement is better than none.
First, "no" doesn't always mean "no". (Yes. There are situations in which "no" does mean "no". But that's a different conversation). In these cases, "no" may just mean "We've never done that before.
