I’ve always found “provider” very odd & actively avoid using it ... I feel it commodifies & depersonalises healthhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1107278 …
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I’ve often felt that way about “first responder”.
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Indeed it is.
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Ok West-Sama .....
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Q: How many doctors does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Just one, to hold the bulb while the world revolves around them.
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Good one!!
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Are you trying to conflate use of a term to group disparate types of medical professionals who perform similar or related functions with the use of race-, gender-, religion-, or sexuality-based slurs?
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Privilege will lead a guy to do just that, and, yes, that's the implication I got.
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Health care "provider" is a generic term for not only physicians but also nurses, EMTs, medical technicians in labs, phlebotomists, transporters, health office admin, etc. Would you prefer that I spend 5 minutes listing them all, or could you provide a new term for people to use?
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I mean, sure, if an individual is offended by being called a health care provider, then I can determine what term to use since they have an individual job title. But I can't just stop using a generic term for an entire class of jobs without starting to use something else.
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Avoid using that word
Keep using that word, and insist that those who are bothered are too sensitive and overreacting
There is a term for the second option, by the way.