You cannot compare 21st American physicians occasionally being called "provider" to people that have suffered centuries of discrimination. This is wrong on so many levels. You aren't discriminated against. You're in one of the most privileged jobs in the world. https://twitter.com/AequanimitasM/status/1300131359424311296 …
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A trend by medical agencies to use terms prescriber/provider, seems harmless at first, but arguably a targeted method of obscuring the hierarchy of training/expertise, confusing the public, and quietly removing MDs as the captains of the health care team as a cost-cutting measure
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Even if this were true, making ridiculous analogies likening the use of the word “provider” to racial- or gender-based slurs just makes you look ignorant, silly, overly sensitive, and, yes, stupid. It’s an embarrassment to the profession.
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From a “not a real doctor” outsider (PhD), if an MD is upset about being occasionally referred to as a provider, it sure seems like they went into medicine for the wrong reason. I may not know the admin issues around this, but it sure sounds more like ego than anything else.
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Its more than a coincidence that as more women, African Americans and Hispanics have become physicians in the last 2 decades calling them “Doctors” is now overrated. Maybe those who insist on NOT calling them “doctors” are the ones with covert racism or gender bias!
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“provider was first utilized by The Third Reich, who embraced it to devalue Jewish physicians as medical professionals”