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Providers and clientsFrom: CNMPAT@aol.comSat Nov 2 09:37:03 1996
<< While this may be both chauvinistic and arrogant, not to mention old fashioned despite being under forty, I am a *physician* who takes care of *patient*, not a "provider" with "clients." Are any of you out there closed physicians or midwives or nurses with patients, too? >> This has been debated several times on this mailing list. Some of us were educated using the concept of clients and providers, versus physician and patient. I've used these terms for over 14 years, and that's just the way it is for me. Patient implies sickness to me. Healthy women seeking an annual exam, or birth control are not sick. Seeing someone as client somehow gives them the ability to be more invested in their care and responsible for the outcomes of their choices. Some of us are not physicians, and I do not see healthy women as 'patients'. What other term would you use to describe a health care provider, instead of physician? Women who choose to come to me for their care, and have the option of choosing other providers. Similar to a lawyer having clients come to him for a consultation. Providers for me is a more inclusive term for the wide variety of persons providing services to women. In our state, these terms are used throughout all of our insurances and documents. Sorry you prefer the other terminology. Pat Sonnenstuhl, CNM,ARNP,RH/CH South Sound Women's Center: 2 CNMs and 3 OB/GYNs Olympia, WA cnmpat@aol.com http://www.obgyn.net/webs/ or home.aol.com/CNMPAT November 2, 1996 8:06 am
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