"this pleasant 44 year old"

[ticandtoc]

I've used private doctors twice over the past 10 years, most recently last week - and on both occasions the doctor has sent a letter to my GP starting with "this delightful 34 year old" and "this pleasant 44 year old". It has always struck me as an odd way for a doctor to describe a patient but a friend told me it's kind of a code between doctors just informing them that the patient isn't a pain in the derriere or.... ? Does that make sense? Anyone know if this is true?

Just curious.

[NoglenTilLykke]

There's a code for that! it's brazen article. This brazen article would like a scan. {tut}

[tigerdriverII]

Oh I've just remembered seeing some notes when I was pregnant, and had to see a specialist. They had SOLICITOR written at the top, and one doctor didn't even say hello, just asked what area of law. Was tempted to say "clinical negligence since you're asking" but didn't think of that til later.

[NeilNeilOrangePeel]

I had 'extremely pleasant young lady' on my referral to have a varicose vein done.

I took it as a compliment.

[NeilNeilOrangePeel]

May even have been 'charming', now I think about it.

[FruitBasedDrinkForALady]

My lovely Mum called me a scarlet woman (my wedding dress, also chosen pre-pregnancy was red), so tbh, a brazen article wouldn't have been too bad... better than harlot I suppose.

[dashoflime]

I once got "patient is very distressed at the involvement of social services"
I'd actually only seen a social worker once and she closed the refferal on the same day because it was obvious my "lack of engagement with service" was actually a failure of said services to send appointment letters to the correct address. And far from being "very distressed" I'd just scored a 2 on the postnatal depression screening questionnaire- which is pretty much as happy and contented as its possible for one person to be.
"Distressed at the involvement of social services" is code- and code for something nasty. The GP had the front to show me the notes and ask if I was happy now my perspective had been duly recorded.
The next day I came into the surgery with a letter from social services explaining the outcome of the referral and asked that it be placed on file. And I made a complaint about the poor administration that led to the initial problem.
I still worry about taking DS to the GP though, because of the assumptions drs must make about me after reading my file.

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

The only time I saw a letter about me I was just "this 23 year old woman" (it was a loooooong time ago). I'm not sure now whether I should be relieved or concerned at the absence of an adjective...

[lunar1]

You need to get ward sister and drs wife put on your notes like me . It will pretty much guarantee you a side room, but then they will shut the door and debate who is going to treat you.

[BerylStreep]

How interesting. I think I might also be a pleasant 44 year old..

[drspouse]

I'm going to have to dig out my/DS medical notes now. I have a feeling I had "unfortunate" on one of my many miscarriage GP summaries.

[Tortoiseonthehalfshell]

"Affable chap" made me laugh out loud.

They don't do this in Australia, at least nowhere that I've ever noticed. I wonder how doctors tell each other to beware?

[RonaldMcDonald]

Mine said, has gained a great deal of weight since our last appointment
I was still a praying mantis
GP and I shook heads wondering who had my letter etc...

[GarlicJuneBlooms]

Marking this as I do actually have to find my medical notes tomorrow.

[ChineseFireball]

My DS (aged 2) is apparently a "sturdy chap". I'd have just written "mmmmm could totally munch on those thighs" Although maybe that's just me... They are delicious thighs though!

[ThomasLynn]

I once had 'this mercurial young lady.'

I wasn't sure what to think.

[Eastpoint]

I was described as very anxious when I was 23. I'd had rectal bleeding for 4 months, had seen 3 GPs who had all said they didn't know what was wrong with me, couldn't reliably travel on the tube as I was going to the loo about 40 times a day. When I saw the consultant he told me I'd never be able to have children. You bet I was anxious.

[Tansie]

Re being a lawyer or solicitor sounds like it'd get you tiptop treatment, but as a HCP, it's been my experience that you sometimes get less good treatment! As in overly cautious treatment. Without wanting to out myself, not that long ago, we had to do some tests on a bloke who'd come back from abroad with a bug he'd caught over there that was basically eating him. He announced at A&E that one close relative was a writer for a red top; the other a lawyer.... the consultant who attended him said to me in an many words 'Normally I'd operate to halt this in its tracks but since he's made it clear that he's litigious and ready to destroy my reputation in a red top, I don't dare take a proactive and potentially unsuccessful approach, I'm going to let it run its course with the likelihood he'll have way more scarring and will be hospital way longer but them's the breaks, that's what happens when you come in with a threatening and aggressive manner'.

A 'problem' of freedom of information actually can be that no one tells you stuff any more so you book people in inappropriate slots; you discover the person has SN, or is wheelchair bound etc once they arrive and sometimes you have to send them away with a better appointment because you don't have the time, equipment or personnel to cope at the allocated time. Doctors are scared to say anything about a patient, even when glaringly pertinent!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

I'm an HCP and I never tell anyone unless they ask me (if I'm a patient, I'm a patient regardless of if I work for the NHS, unless it's something that is relevant to my work)

But -

I'm waiting to see about my gallstone and I'm in a whole shed load of pain all the time.
So am I being unreasonable to say "I sit at work. I bend. I am in huge pain when I do. I'm an NHS worker so I really need to be able to do my job properly" and hope (cross fingers) that this helps.
Unless my GP writes "FFS see the old bag to stop her whinging" but in nice code

[shouldnthavesaid]

I've was always a "wonderfully funny young girl/young girl with a fantastic sense of humour" on my notes as a child, with continous mention of the fact I can make a joke out of anything..

As an adult I'm always getting "this lovely young lady", apart from psychiatry/psychology who always write more negative stuff.

[specialsubject]

this page is in really poor taste - and I thought very funny. Don't say you haven't been warned.

www.translationdirectory.com/glossaries/glossary224.php

I know an ex-nurse who introduced me to the 'pumpkin positive' concept.

[myitchybeaver]

I am referred as an 'intelligent young woman' which is NOT complimentary it just means I will ask questions continuously and challenge every decision. I don't care, we aren't there to make friends and if anything the doctors might try a little bit harder if they think someone is listening to and questioning every word.

[crazynanna]

I get "This overweight woman" tosser skinny twat

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

I used to be a Medical Receptionist & got to file letters to and from consultants (about 12 years ago, before everything was completely computerised). Often, I would have to read the opening part of the letter to check which part of the file to put it in. 99% seemed to start with something fairly nice "Thank you for seeing this pleasant lady" etc. etc. - the best/worst one though was from a GP at our practice to a general surgeon and started "Thank you for seeing this obnoxious fat man" .

To be fair, he absolutely was an obnoxious prick (he was a neighbour of my DM - many problems over the years).

[BerylStreep]

specialsubject - that link is very enlightening