Ask Amy: ; Health-Care Employees Must Speak Respectfully
Charleston Gazette › July 11, 2008
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Dear Amy: As a patient, I resent the use of my first name by doctors and their staffs. They call me by my first name, as if I were in grade school.
The American Medical Association advocates the use of patients' titles as a matter of courtesy, but most physicians I've spoken to about this get indignant when I object to them calling me by my first name.See the full content of this document
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Ask Amy: ; Health-Care Employees Must Speak Respectfully
Once, an acupuncturist grew so angry at my questioning the practice that he actually got red in the face.
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