Could be, but keep it out of the note! FROM TPP Yes, the story appeared in the WSJs Informed Patient column. Everyone gets the "pleasant" adjective unless he/she is particularly unpleasant. It urges doctors to share their notes more readily with patients -- both as a medical strategy and to build patient-doctor trust -- ideally through secure online portals. The person who seems uncooperative might be depressed or traumatized. CC: Ms. Smith is a verypleasant62-year-old woman admitted with , A/P: To summarize, Mr. Jones is adelightful89-year-old man presenting with , CC: Thislovely74-year-old retired school teacher was in her usual state of health until . As others have noted, it means you are healthy looking and not sickly or cachectic. Yet, its particularly important in health care because we like to think of ourselves as scientists as very objective and not having biases but in reality, were human and we all do.. wasnt feeling any anxiety (beyond the normal slight worry that anyone feels when they go to the doctor with a medical problem). The part that really fascinates me is the first line where you open with a description of the patient. Isnt she lovely? Terrence Holt overhears an intern call her patient a "whiner.". to find out whether theyre accurate or whether theres more to the story. let the patient know what they REALLY thought or use a common euphemism like Gomer commonly used in wings with lots of old people. Add message. Not fat. 'It's most often used to talk about people with severe diseases like diabetes, or renal failure and diabetes,' says Dr Muennig. Getting that mess cleaned Ive been a medical transcriptionist for 25 years and its one of the single most common phrases used If a patient split from crotch to neck, sustained a shotgun wound to the chest, or fell twenty stories onto the pavement, then a great deal's up to a God. Just beautiful, doc. It may help you to confide in someone. But Im concerned there might be negative or judgmental Or, if they feel like it, practice surgical technique for a while. When writing medical notes, some clinicians include an appreciation of their patients personality and disposition in their opening line (the chief complaint), or when theyre wrapping up (in the assessment and plan), or in bothlocations. The paper trail of documenting a patient's behaviour is very beneficial in the future if a psychiatric evaluation were started where erratic behaviour was already documented or if psychiatric institualization is being considered. The medical office administrative assistant should use proper etiquette through pronunciation of words, keep the pitch pleasant, speak with a positive and respectful tone, sound intelligible, not be too . Vascular surg.although I guess it's a little ironic given the dm and smoking. I was still taken aback. Arent you a nurse? Well nourished means healthy. The first-of-its-kind study surveyed 714 practicing physicians from multiple specialties and locations across the country about their attitudes toward patients with disabilities. They are designed to find out about your previous experiences dealing with a specific situation. Weve all seen our doctors scribbling in our charts after the exam. Or they might make comments that you may find personal and insulting. Your medical record is a medical and legal document. time, see me, feel me, heal me. Variations include Cranio-Rectal Syndrome and Cranial Rectosis, presumably for when the patient doesn't have shit for brains but merely has his head up his ass. And if you make a comment that a doctor or other health care professional perceives as biased or offensive in some way, that could go on your medical record. Generally I agree with you. I don't use pleasant. We have the same name (Jr and III.) My insurance company underwriter freaked out and rejected me on the spot when she saw that. Our shared doctors staff used to drop notes from my Dads workups and tests into my When It's Used: (Note: I never ever called anyone delightful or lovely. We want to describe what a person has rather than asserting what a person is, Dawn Hatanaka of Obesity Canada told CMAJ. A new survey from WebMD/Medscape, in collaboration with STAT, found that that 59% of doctors have heard an offensive remark about their appearance in the past 5 years. The phrase is most often used between doctors, to describe a patient, as in, 'I have a total body dolores in room 109. In a recent interview with Daily Mail Online, he also said that this term is often used particularly to describe people who physicians suspect are hunting for pain medication. In the schoolyard, this healthcare provider was a bully. collaborate a little more with patients about what goes into the record. But legitimate medical descriptive terms are a different matter. Are patients using social media to attack physicians? I agree. Really.). This mentality is the reason why doctors feel the need to be protected from patients, and why many of them end up distrusting and distancing themselves from patients. What isnt understood is that normal is statistically described for a population by the lab doing the testing and, by definition, a small percentage The argument is that if people of color are sicker and are dying at younger ages than white people, this may be because physicians have racial biases. Circling The Drain. But shes the exception to the rule as noted above, most clinicians who use all of these terms (including pleasant) start right at the top of their note, or when theyre finishing up. What It Means: Patient Reassured And Told to Fuck Off. also give me a clue into the doctors attitude. And Medicaid does pay less than the other major insurers: Based on its own data, the average initial claim filed is $98 for Medicaid patients, whereas Medicare averages $137 and private insurers . I believe that a doctors notes about me are his or her own intellectual property, with the caveat that they can be requested either by a peer review board or the legal system. She unleashed a litany of nonsensical complaints the likes of which I have never seen, nor hope to ever encounter again. was a doctor who in years past could have remembered minor weight fluctuation even if it had been a year. Regarding the blog topic, I think everybody should have access to their medical records. Examining patients. All content Copyright HIV and ID Observations, this may influence what its like to care for them, Six Musings Triggered by the Latest Measles Outbreak, Why Choose Infectious Diseases as a Medical Specialty? Typically this happens with very old people, those with suddenly aggravated chronic health problems, or people with inoperable cancer, soon resulting in a "healthy tumor" (a dead patient). to read. I wonder: If you were, in fact, trending-on-overweight in your past several visits, and saw that note, how would you feel? Since it was essentially a healthy birth, none of the medical staff thought to mention it to us. The acronym is a sort of catch-all term for any of the kinds of patients doctors don't want to deal with. Meanwhile, Fleur-Ange Lefebvre of the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada said that her organization is not specifically addressing physicians use of stigmatizing language at this time. Happy Walltimes chumming. We're not saying you should ever lie in court, but in that situation you should at least consider it. And don't forget to check out Internet Party 2: An Intervention for MySpace to see which sites you shouldn't be inviting to your next intervention. but this was his way of covering his backside without subjecting me to unnecessary tests. 'I roll my eyes every time I hear that [kind of term]' says a New York doctor. Understandably she was frightened and also in severe pain. Get the best of Cracked sent directly to your inbox! oculus dexter, or right eye, not for overdose. Offered my condolences to husband. FYI GOMER comes from the book, House of God, it stands for Get Out of My ER. Ill read your notes on kindle. to be sure everything is okay. In a 2021 statement on Indigenous-specific racism, the organization committed to recognizing all forms of racism as professional misconduct. Post your answers and new questions below or email them to nq@theguardian.com. Another study published in JAMA Network Open last year identified common ways that doctors express negative feelings about patients in their notes, including questioning a patient's credibility, disapproving of their reasoning, or portraying them as difficult. Can You Safely Lose Weight While Breast-Feeding? This includes doing . And in an era where increasingly patients have access to their medical notes a move I strongly support, by the way how do they feel if in some notes theyre described as delightful, and others they are not? can now possess small quantities of certain illegal drugs without legal repercussions. I used to think that it meant just that, a nice person that you enjoy taking care of. Is thatfair? XBB.1.5 is highly transmissible and immune evasive and has rapidly spread to more than 25 countries. They arent intended to be cruel or judgemental. It has been used in hospitals for decades and is familiar to just about every doctor working, Dr Muennig says. What if Arnold actually took the role in Stop! As a physician I can log onto the EMR and read my PCPs notes about me, but I never do. The medical mafia succeeds in gatekeeping medicines and overcharging for the visit to renew a $4 prescription. The specificity and problem notes with vanish underground Can your patients read the file in your landsting? She refused and ate not just a light snack but rather a large turkey dinner. I think I've only seen oncologists use this though. But Id argue that the medical note isnt the place for us to pass judgment on our patients likability. Sometimes, a very ill, very elderly, or very hopeless patient wants the doctors to do everything they can to keep them alive. Pts dig their own graves when they are acting like that, no reason to put an editorial spin on their behavior. Savitri Fedson, MD, associate professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Dont presume an 8-minute visit once a year (or less) gives you some kind of wonderful, magical insight Doctors notes can reveal and perpetuate bias but can they be harnessed for change? Evil. And I am of normal weight. Obesity Canada, which coauthored the guidelines, has seen a shift in terminology and awareness of weight bias in obesity research presented at conferences since the organization started requiring authors to use person-first language in abstract submissions in 2017. Even electronic information may be inaccurate or incomplete, found a study from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. What does this imply about those we dont callpleasant? "That physicians have negative attitudes about patients with disability wasn't surprising," said Lisa I. Iezzoni, lead author of the paper and a health care . He knew perfectly well that I didnt have that disease Respect is an essential component of a high-performance organization. (Note: I never called anyone delightful or lovely. That seems patronizing.) The WSJ and The Times The larger issue is the amount of time I waste when clients request a copy of blood test results and want an explanation as to why I told them the tests were normal, when there was a laboratory value a point above the patients to see their records would bring that kind of passive aggressive and hostile behavior to a screeching halt. When It's Used: Multiple vague complaints. 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