#MedTwitter we are doctors or physicians, not providers. “Provider” was a term first used by The Third Reich (Nazis) to devalue Jewish physicians as medical professionals. When someone calls you a provider -- help educate them.
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Me too! I once had our administrator say that I was providing excellent customer service... based on Press-Ganey!
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There are few things that set me off more than this. I absolutely refuse to use the term provider. We have doctors, nurses, PAs. Everyone has a role and is valued, but please don’t diminish the decades of training physicians go through and call us all “providers”.
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Your dislike for the word is one thing. Trying to force a connection to the Holocaust is something else entirely.
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The alleged Nazi origin of the term has been repeatedly debunked by historians yet this urban legend pops up like once a month on MedTwitter
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It's also a pretty iffy translation https://twitter.com/MedialApproach/status/1094378954524381184?s=19 …
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Words matter. Doctor is an academic title and anyone who earns that title has the right to use it. They cannot impersonate a physician but from what I’ve seen on here, I don’t know why anyone would want to. I prefer my head to fit thru the door.
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Are you suggesting that if I call myself a provider, the holocaust will happen again?
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No, he is suggesting you are a Nazi if you use that word. That's because he is balanced and wants to make a useful contribution to discourse
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