To find my report from breast clinic condescending?

[duletty]

I’m 44, had breastfeeding pain for a few months and then found a large lump on the underside of my arm near arm pit.
Gp arranged a quick appointment (was three weeks when usually a two week wait)....
Any way after mammogram and ultrasound they said it was cysts and calcification, so all good.
Got letter today outlining results and it said:
“Saw the this delightful lady in clinic today”......etc etc
I find this language unprofessional and it pissed me off that it was shitty code like a child’s school report.
I have to write reports for EHCPs and use appropriate professional language do it set me on edge.
Am I being precious?

It wouldn’t personally bother me but everyone is different I guess. your results were clear.

Standard hospital speak for not an annoying know it all.

I think that's just the language they use although I agree it is odd. At least they described you as delightful - could have been worse!

Completely normal albeit admittedly weird. Many reports I read say similar. Results were fine, so don't worry about extraneous information.

Totally standard for hospital letters.

It’s code for other doctors. It’s complimentary.

I used to type up dictated GP/results letters at work and nearly all of them started with something like that. I wouldn’t let it bother you.

All consultants' letters to GPs start with something like this. My most recent one began "I saw this very pleasant man..." I am a fat, misanthropic, grumpy slob. Nobody could realistically call me "pleasant", but I didn't take the letter to be anything other than polite. It definitely wasn't unprofessional.

Delightful in doctors speak = “not a wanker”

It's nice.

Sorry, but that's dreadful. Not professional at all. Reports on this sort of thing should be factual and medical. I do wonder if they would write in a similar manner about a man who was having tests for testicular cancer?

It’s very standard to open this way - no idea why?

Do tor code to let them know you aren’t a twat

If that's all you have to grind an axe worry about, lucky you.

Stop looking for offence where none is intended.

Rumour has it, the nicer the language, the more difficult the patient and it's a way of letting that be known to the reader. I don't know if there is any truth to that, but it's what I was once told. I'm usually described as pleasant and actually, I am.
Water off a duck's back, OP. Don't think twice about it. Enjoy the good report! Good news!

I work in the NHS and hate it when health professionals comment like this in clinical correspondence. I too think it's highly unprofessional but it's rife I'm afraid. They don't say it about everyone so it's not standard and is an unnecessary, personal opinion.

I get copies of letters from my consultant at the endocrine clinic that are similar, I think it's usually i saw this pleasant young lady or along those lines. Never really thought much of it. The ones sent by the colposcopy clinic are much more matter of fact.

Fgs. A consultant calls you delightful (which by the way many do call patients delightful) and you were pissed off and want to moan about it. Yes you are being precious and really not at all delightful by the way. There are much worse things to be annoyed about than this

It's standard but I agree it's bizarre. I've often wondered if there's a code in there between health care professionals to tell each other that I'm really annoying... But maybe not.

All my medical letters have been the same. 'Very pleasant', 'delightful'.
I guess I'm no bother and the doctors are conveying that I'm not awkward or a time waster perhaps?

Dr code for nice - it's really common for consultants in particular to open like this.

I file hospital letters to patient records and loads of them start like this. Men and women. You probably were delightful, seriously I can imagine there are many that aren't. I dint think it's meant as patronising , I see it such a lot written on letters.

I would prefer that than the comment that I had - ' this overweight lady '
I suppose at least he didn't call be obese !

Condescending?! Really?! We’re you just copied in though so wasn’t really to you?!

Would you have preferred, saw this miserable bitch in clinic today?!

I do wonder if they would write in a similar manner about a man who was having tests for testicular cancer?
They certainly do with regard to enlarged prostate and possible prostate cancer. It's standard to address letters like this about both sexes.