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When doctors ignore pronouns, patients pay the price. Here's why (www.advocate.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pronouns belong on intake forms, right next to patient name. Mine are in my medical file, so any doctor I see with access to my data in Epic who gets it wrong is showing up unprepared.

The only ones who get a pass are EMS folks overwhelmed by the work of keeping people alive. I'm sympathetic to someone taking a wild guess at my pronouns while they're holding my guts in with their thumb.