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Hospital press releases often say that individual is/are "in a state of shock".
Ironically this is not using the word in its medical sense, in which it refers to various forms of circulatory failure; but rather, they are using it in a lay but curiously medicalised sense to mean "upset" or "distress".
Penglish (talk) 15:36, 17 September 2012 (UTC)Reply