#notaprovider

[lifewithchronicpain]

I decided to look at #notaprovider on Twitter, and there really are doctors/nurses bullshit pissed at ever being called a provider. This is the enormous ego that the chronically ill patients have to put up with every time we have to interact with medical providers.

[lifewithchronicpain]

Hi, I saw your not a provider post and I was wondering if you could explain it a bit more please as I haven't heard calling doctors 'providers' within the chronic illness community

You’re right. It’s not a term that disabled people generally use. I personally say “my doctor” and most others do too. I only ever hear healthcare provider in terms of asking for my GP when signing up for a specialist, and on TV mostly by news anchors.

My understanding is that because provider can mean doctor, nurse, or the x-ray technician, doctors find it offensive. There are claims it confuses patients, but since when? There are claims it creates issues around insurance but I don’t see how. This point is not well explained. Regardless, a lot of the tweets with the hashtag come off as angry temper tantrums that their doctorate isn’t respected enough.

Honestly, if you finished a PhD you are entitled to be called doctor, but getting upset some forms say provider is rather ridiculous. One of the tweets, which I saw in another post but is also included here, said she won’t treat anyone who calls her a provider. So someone who doesn’t know this is an issue says provider and gets refused care!? That doesn’t come off as caring for the patient but some really entitled BS!

As you can imagine, chronically ill people have to deal with doctors egos all the time, now they have to worry about using a neutral term that includes Nurse Practitioners that many people see? The horror of mixing up a doctor with an NP! 🙄

Here’s a sampling of tweets from the hashtag:

And here’s a pretty good response:

I hope this explains it. This doesn’t seem to be something that’s taking off in a huge viral way, as you can see some tweets are a little old. But the fact that it is even a thing; I worry for my fellow spoonies who might piss of a doctor and not receive care because they didn’t know it’s a thing.

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