My doctor has described me as ‘a very pleasant lady’

[HouseyMcHouseFace]

And it made me cry.

I have to go to hospital tomorrow for an infusion and needed a letter from my doctor as it’s an urgent referral thing. She wrote the referral with my age, weight and the fact that I’m very pleasant.

I am feeling poorly and a bit down at the moment but it really made my day.

I have several consultants. If they don't say it it means you're awkward and rude.

I'm a HV and describe people like this - only if they are actually pleasant though!

Nuzzle I knew that! It was the delighted and pleasant bit that made me suspicious!

A consultant referred to me as “a very pleasant lady” in a letter to my GP after he had given me a breast examination!
He was very professional and there was a nurse present, but it did make me laugh l.

I think take a compliment when you get it

Agree with heyjude

I had one that described me as a "delightful young lady". It was nice at the time as I was being referred for MH, but now I'm questioning it!!

They do always say it Op but take heart that if you were a cowbag your GP would have left that bit out

I use it in various ways and usually means and combination of friendly, polite, listens to what I’m saying and asks sensible questions. The type of patient I wouldn’t mind bumping into in town!

The op says she's feeling crap and down and this had made her feel better, why did people feel the need to bring her down!

In my DD’s letter I was described as ‘clearly a very worried mother’

Code for:
Over anxious
Mouthy
Pushy

My DM's consultant's letter to her GP read:

"I saw this very pleasant elderly lady and her rather assertive daughter (me ) in my clinic today".

He may have reacted to my "not more blood tests, she's 90 ffs"

I've typed many many many letters over my ears as a GP and now hospital consultants secretary - it's not standard, its specific to the patient. If they are "delightful", "charming", "pleasant" then its added to the letter. Most often the letter states I reviewed this patient! Take it as the compliment it is

I've read other threads about this, apparently it's some kind of standard doctor way of writing letters

I've had very pleasant and delightful young lady. I asked a medical friend who said both are terms used when a patient has been nice and caused no problems, they don't mind questions as long as patients are polite. She said the letters with no description usually mean the patient has been a bit of a toy.

Over my years! Not ears

They don't all say that, actually, they used to in the old days.. although sometimes it wasn't as polite. It's a bit old school now, I once read an old referral from the 1980's for a patient of mine who was then in her teens and it said ..Thank you for seeing this rather immature young girl who was accompanied by her very pretty mother
I kid you not.

OP you sound lovely and I would definitely take a compliment where it is clearly due

My daughter had this, as in a very pleasant young lady. And she definitely is, ( cries/ screams with pain but still says thank you afterwards), but also smart and asks intelligent questions.

Back in the 80’s, when patients weren’t allowed to see their medical notes, consultants wrote all sorts of outrageous things. Some were genuinely funny, others just a way of venting annoyance with an obnoxious patient.
As a newly qualified doc, I was taken aback to see a letter from my consultant boss to a GP which began “This man of limited intellect from the rough end of Xville...”
When I expressed concern, the consultant explained, laughing, that it was about a mutual colleague of his and the GP, a great friend of both, who actually lived in a very grand house in the distinctly desirable end of Xville!

I work in private healthcare and it's used all the time 'very pleasant lady/delightful couple' etc, in ours at least it doesn't mean anything negative it just means what it says

DH was once described as "an affable chap" in a doctor's referral letter. I think it still makes him happy, years later.

I’ve been described as pleasant, charming, lovely and absolutely delightful amongst other complimentary things in consultant letters. My GP chuckles over it every time and says things like “they must have got the wrong patient” (we know each other well, it’s fine!). Absolutely delightful is his favourite to date.

I got the fucking hump once when I saw a doctor's referral letter and it described me as chatty 😯 I'd been very nervous, and asking a lot of questions about the procedure. I reckoned it was code, as well.

I’m a GP and I reserve nice introductions for genuinely nice people only.

If they’re neutral I just say “this 42 year old gentleman/lady”, but I really do have some very likeable patients so they’ll always get a “pleasant/lovely/delightful”.

I like to think they might get to look at the letter and know how highly I regard them. I always share positive comments from consultants to them too. It’s nice to spread a little happiness!