Nice.... is that the best they can come up with?

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A consultant referred me on and started the letter with

"I'd like you to see this nice young lady"

Surely they can come up with something better than "nice"? Nice sort of implies Im a bit of a non entity aIbeit a nice one.

I like the young bit though, I'm 44!!

( I had a teacher when I was 11 who forbade the use of the word nice for the whole year I was in her class so perhaps I'm unnecessarily at odds with the word )

On my pregnancy notes a consultant wrote 'Good Fun' and a load of unreadable stuff. In my head I was like yeah, I am good fun, I knew we had got on well.... Then I realised it meant good function of whatever organ they were testing!🙄

I wouldn't read too much into it. It usually means just that. I write it on my referrals and it makes for a much more pleasant communication. I'm quite a straight talker so if the patient has been googling and getting themselves in knots, I will write something along the lines ' the patient has done considerable research into their symptoms, and may need some reassurance of the more commoner, more likely causes etc.

Nowadays letters aren't personal to a consultant, they usually get opened by an appointment secretary and passed along so the referring clinician should expect anything they've written to be taken at face value.

I'm a mental health nurse and in the early nighties I saw some shocking consultant letter like "thank you for seeing this lower class imbicile / unmarried mother / moron. Very sadly imbicle and moron were amongst others classifications of people who had learning disabilities. I never forgot how sickened it made me feel.

@Therunecaster

I'm a mental health nurse and in the early nighties I saw some shocking consultant letter like "thank you for seeing this lower class imbicile / unmarried mother / moron. Very sadly imbicle and moron were amongst others classifications of people who had learning disabilities. I never forgot how sickened it made me feel.

Sorry about the spelling errors I've lost my glasses!

My baby son's consultant wrote that she was "delighted to meet Luke and his mum today", does that mean she doesn't think I'm an arsehole?

Old gimmer nurse here.
Remember reading a referral letter from GP to a gastro enterologist saying .......... Dear sir, please see this fat smoker who complains of ........ WTAF?

Oh ffs I’ve had “knowledgeable” - I KNEW it was a dig!

I'm always on the lookout for PRATTFO in my notes - Patient Reassured and Told To Fuck Off.

I had 'pleasant' on a doctor's referral letter to a consultant. It seemed irrelevant to my condition, but apparently, as a previous poster said, it means 'not a time waster'.

I’m always disappointed when the rheumatologist I’ve been seeing for 20 years never uses an adjective to describe me. I suppose if you can’t say anything nice...

I was described as pleasant by a consultant, I was delighted 😄.
I probably spend too much time worrying about what others think of me, but it did look good on paper!