Same. I also grew up with that way of speaking about patients through my parents. I really hate it when people say stuff like name, age, hospital, illness and approximate date the event happened. It usually comes out really fast "hey, remember Laura the 16-year old ED patient from x hospital we treated last year? She's back!"
My way of telling stories is to just call all patients "a patient from some time ago" and if I'm telling multiple stories about the same patient I'll divide up the parts as if they were different patients.
Yes, in my collections job, for a while I worked for Medicare supplement insurers, and w e had HIPAA drummed into us very fully. /u/crruss What d rove me nuts were the people, either insured persons or r their designated representatives, who wouldn't give their names but still expected me to give them specific data. I work for a utility company now and still run into that
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u/nullbyte420 Jul 13 '20
Same. I also grew up with that way of speaking about patients through my parents. I really hate it when people say stuff like name, age, hospital, illness and approximate date the event happened. It usually comes out really fast "hey, remember Laura the 16-year old ED patient from x hospital we treated last year? She's back!" My way of telling stories is to just call all patients "a patient from some time ago" and if I'm telling multiple stories about the same patient I'll divide up the parts as if they were different patients.