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Re: Comment concerning 'client'From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirez@icepr.com)Fri Sep 29 06:47:06 2000
>From October's BJOG: What women want from antenatal care Antenatal care has aroused a great deal of unnecessary passion among obstetricians, midwives and health services researchers. According to one perspective, pregnancy is a potential illness and required rigorous surveillance to detect and treat complications, while the opposing view is that pregnancy is a natural phenomenon and requires intervention only when complications become obvious. These tensions are unresolved, and even affect the manner we address pregnant women, with current fashion for customer, consumer and even client. Dominic Byrne and his colleagues (pages 1233-1236) actually asked 613 women attending their antenatal clinics how they would like to be addressed; patient was the most popular, followed by mother and then pregnant women, but definitely not client, consumer or customer. Perhaps sensitivity to women's wishes concerning the manner of their address is the first step to resolving tensions in antenatal care.
At Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Geffrey Klein, MD wrote:
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-- "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
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