Both Uses of
conflict
in
Gifted Hands
- My story would be incomplete if I didn't add that during my year as an intern when I was in general surgery I had a conflict with one of the chief residents, a man from Georgia named Tommy.†
p. 114.8conflict = struggle or disagreement
- On one occasion the underlying conflict came into the open when I asked, "Why do we have to draw blood from this patient?†
p. 115.0 *
Definition:
a struggle or disagreement
in various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"