Re: Weekend thoughts

From: Jamie (ajfields@pine-net.com)
Sun Mar 5 19:58:58 2006


We are more likely to run into Spanish speaking than German speaking patients in my neck of the woods. One of my pet peeves is to hear someone address a patient they have no prior relationship with as "tu".

At Sun, 05 Mar 2006, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >
>In the German language there are formal and informal addresses, and it
>is a tendency among midwives to invade the patients' privacy by forcing
>the informal address on the patients.
>
>They are not your friends, they are patients (some of you call them
>clients even). Don't forget they may sue you.
>
>And, by the way, hierarchies, you can not tell me that your SHOs call
>your Consultants anything but "Yes, Sir" or "Mr Soandso".
>
>el
>
>on 3/5/06 1:38 AM GA12L@aol.com said the following:
>> In a message dated 04/03/2006 23:03:23 GMT Standard Time, el@lisse.NA
>> writes:
>>
>> Trust me it is totally unprofessional!
>>
>> Then we'll just have to disagree. I prefer my way and you prefer yours
>> although I can't see why first name terms is unprofessional.
>>
>> Gail
>>

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JFields, RN, BSN




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