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Need Your Ideas for a name (total vanity)

Posted on 12/16/2005 11:14:42 AM PST by Kimmers

My husband is starting a medical practice devoted to helping patients with knee and hip symptoms. He is concerned that term patient is too demeaning and not representative of the best health care relationship. He believes that the best care requires the establishment of a partnership.

Recognising this philosophy, should the people in the practice refer to people with health care needs as:

A.) Patients B.) Clients C.) Partners D.) Someone else - if so, What would be a better term?

Thank You


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1 posted on 12/16/2005 11:14:43 AM PST by Kimmers
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To: Kimmers

Semi-ambulatory?


2 posted on 12/16/2005 11:16:05 AM PST by MarkeyD (Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: Kimmers

Customers.


3 posted on 12/16/2005 11:16:34 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Kimmers

Gimps.


4 posted on 12/16/2005 11:16:54 AM PST by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: Kimmers

STOP THE PC MADNESS NOW!!!!!


5 posted on 12/16/2005 11:16:56 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (me too)
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[the] term patient is too demeaning

I don't understand this.

6 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:04 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Kimmers

Victims?


7 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:07 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Kimmers

Your kids' college fund.


8 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:12 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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"Partners" sound like a 50-50 relationship with a monetary interest. Doesn't work. Clients possibly. Patients definitely.


9 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:17 AM PST by lilylangtree
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To: Kimmers

Payment Challenged?


10 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:21 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: MarkeyD

Disjointed persons.


11 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:28 AM PST by billhilly (Demo cammo is yellow and white)
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To: Kimmers

Knee-Jerks?


12 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:33 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Kimmers

If he keeps them waiting beyond their appointment time, they will be impatient.


13 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:39 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: MarkeyD

LOL and love the tag line


14 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:41 AM PST by Kimmers
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If he's a licensed medical doctor, there is only one word for those he treats: PATIENTS.


15 posted on 12/16/2005 11:17:58 AM PST by onyx (Merry Christmas everybody.)
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Cripples?

:)

16 posted on 12/16/2005 11:18:07 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Kimmers

Treatees.


17 posted on 12/16/2005 11:18:15 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Kimmers

Crips? [ducks and covers]


18 posted on 12/16/2005 11:18:15 AM PST by Kenton (To my friends who celebrate Jesus' birth, Merry Christmas. To the rest of you, have a nice day off.)
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Subjects.


19 posted on 12/16/2005 11:18:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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Income opportunities?


20 posted on 12/16/2005 11:18:21 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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