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       Patients using doctors' first names?
       By: agate Date: November 8, 2022, 1:36 am
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       Some years ago I was surprised when a person on my primary care
       doctor's staff referred to my doctor by her first name when
       talking to me, as in "Have you seen Phyllis yet?"  I had to
       think for a minute before I recalled that my doctor's first name
       was Phyllis. I just never thought much about her first name, and
       I certainly wouldn't have used it.
       But it seems that patients are calling their doctors by their
       first names. Someone did a study, and though this paper isn't
       very clearly written, it makes a couple of interesting
       points--first, that most doctors don't like it when patients
       address them by their first names, and second, that women
       doctors are much more likely to be addressed by their first
       names than are men doctors.
       From JAMA Network Open (October 5, 2022)--"Patient use of
       physicians' first (given) name in direct patient electronic
       messaging":
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