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Patient is a what? - Oh. Dear. Me.
Posted: Aug 05, 2012
I swear to all that is holy, this is what this less-than-stellar PA just dictated:
"The patient IS a high-risk gestational trophoblastic disease..." I went back and listened thinking I must have heard wrong and she said patient HAS ... Nope. She said IS. This is the same PA who dictated a creatinine of 92 for someone.
That sound you hear is me hitting my head on the desk.
This is not actually a grammar error -just old-fashioned. - Old CMT
[ In Reply To ..]This is not bad grammar on the part of the PA. It is just an old-fashioned way of talking about patients.
It is an objectified and depersonalized way to refer to people that began to be perceived as insensitive a few decades ago. The MI in bed 3. The miscarriage in room 2. The patient is a hemophiliac . . . a schizophrenic . . . a leper . . . Hansen's disease . . . an autistic who . . .
See? Don't some of those sound fine? Just like what you would use? What you heard just sounds worse because it is longer and cumbersome.
Physicians are now encouraged to refer to patients in more humane terms. They are not lepers or hip replacements, but individuals who have Hansen's disease or who will have a hip replacement. Unless they are very polite physicians, though, they continue to use the depersonalized form behind the scenes among themselves.
It is extremely common among medical students until they are corrected for it. After someone explains that it increses patient dissatisfaction and thus the risk of lawsuits they stop.
The worst offenders are PAs and . . . EMTs . . . who think it sounds cool. They think it makes them sound "medical."
Old CMT is correct...sm - Old Anon
[ In Reply To ..]I've even gotten "The patient is a case of (name disease here).
Makes me cringe.
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