I’m a patient. You’re a medical provider, even if you find it not appropriately deferent
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Replying to @AcornFrances
I’m not a provider, and if my patients disrespectful and call me that, I will conclude that there’s no chance for a proper therapeutic relationship and they will be given the opportunity to correct themselves, or seek care elsewhere.
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Replying to @LeahHoustonMD @AcornFrances
This is incredibly unethical, basically using the power of being a physician on a vulnerable patient to enforce the use of a word. A word! It's despicable and disgusting.
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All I can say is that it's depressing how some of my colleagues are so hung up on the trappings of being a physician that they lose their friggin' minds over being called a word that they consider insufficiently respectful of their utter awesomeness.
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It's also hilarious in that it's a made-up scenario that basically never happens. I've been called a lot of things by patients while seeing consults in the ER, but "provider" is not one of them.
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I’m thinking I may start calling physicians “providers” just to screen out the ones who put ego before patient care. I’m struggling to find any way I could work it into conversation, though.
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That is the issue, isn't it?
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I’m thinking I may just have to ask outright, “How do you feel about being called a provider versus a doctor?” and “Would you be willing to treat a patient that called you a provider?”
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Replying to @invisiblegirl99 @gorskon and
SOME NUANCE: I find it hard to fault a female physician for “ego.” I have friends in that position. Your male colleagues can congenially say “call me Nick” to patients, but if you do that they think you’re a technician there to deal with paperwork & signatures.
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Replying to @kerobinso_sf @gorskon and
To the point of refusing to treat patients in an emergency department, though? I understand that female physicians aren’t always given the respect they deserve, but this goes way beyond that.
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Yup, and just because a female physician is often treated less respectfully than male physicians is not a justification for pulling a power play like this on vulnerable ER patients.
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