UK: GPs are urged not to use language that could belittle patients: Doctors should stop using phrases like 'sending' home patients who present a 'complaint'

Woke medics are calling for a revamp of language used by doctors so it does not 'belittle' patients.

Common medical phrases like 'take' a test or 'send' someone home may potentially make patients feel 'childlike', they said.

Instead of saying things like the patient 'denies' chest pain, doctors should use the word 'reports' so it does not sound like the patients is being doubted.

Saying medication 'failed' to work implies it was the patient's fault so doctors should say a drug was 'not effective' instead.

The recommendations were made by consultant physician Dr Zoe Fritz and junior doctor Dr Catriona Cox, both from the University of Cambridge.

They laid out an argument for more empowering language in an editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The changes are 'not a matter of political correctness', the medics argue.

Simple words or phrases, both verbally and in written notes, can 'insidiously' affect the relationship between doctors and their patients, they claim.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10758821/GPs-told-not-use-language-belittle-patients.html

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