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Throughout my medical training so far, I have always addressed the consultant physicans as Dr and the consultant surgeons as Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms, whichever was appropriate. This has been the case since I
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 4/11/2011 8:35 PM GMT
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In Response to How to address your Consultant?: Being Egyptian, we used to call our consultant Dr ( First name). Throughout my working years , I liked always to keep positions. The senior must always be respected, even if he/she didn't ask to. During my last working year in Egypt before I come to work in the UK, I was a specialist of plastic surgery(ST 4 level here). I used to assist a young consultant, who is three years older than myself in private work. We were friends as well. I can confirm that I never called him by his name not preceeded by Dr. Sometimes I call him boss, but never by his name. I feel that it's better to keep positions. Since I came here to the UK, people are usually called by their first names. I still like to keep positions. Junior doctors whom I know, SHOs and SpRs, I call by first names. Consultant surgeons, I call Mr/Ms ( Surname). Other consultants, Dr(Surname). Juniors whom I do not know, Dr (First name). I like to confirm one thing, keeping positions and respect never prevented me from being very friendly with my consultants. Thus I can deal in a friendly, but still respectful way, which are both needed in our communications. |
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Respectfulness is contagious and elevating.
posted at 5/11/2011 2:47 AM GMT
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In Response to How to address your Consultant?: Greetings from India In India we continue to be addressed as Sir or Ma'am ( No correlation to British hangover as in native Indian languages we are used to address with even higher regards), and continue to effortlessly address our seniors similarly, even if seniority is of one semester. There is nothing that one looses, rather in a profession such as ours, carried out in full public scrutiny & gaze, our communication is a projection of our attitudes that elicit reciprocal admiration, confidence & faith from our patients, all of which contribute to overall harmony & well being of everybody. Once outside the hospital one is free to address as pleased. I would remain the same even outside for i don't loose anything in being humble or polite or civilised as per the existing metrics of civility in a given society at a given time. Warm Regards Dr. Brij. B. Agarwal Senior Consultant Laparoscopic & Gen. Surgeon Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi-110060 Delhi INDIA Ph (Res.) : +91-11-25531545 Mobile : (+91)9810124256 Email : endosurgeon@gmail.com URL : www.endosurgeon.org |
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 5/11/2011 10:06 PM GMT
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In Response to Re: How to address your Consultant?: Odysseus, for written letters,how about simply: Dear colleague.(?) . Posted by yoram chaiter Nice suggestion. Colleague is a nice word, conveying a brotherhood. I like it. It is also respectful and puts the recipient on the same level as the correspondent. In the Army we address women in rank above us as M'am.
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 6/11/2011 1:32 PM GMT
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From Asia country as well, I (med student) find it weird to call anyone who is senior than me by their first name. I tend to call all doctor,both consultants and registrars by Dr.X or Mr/Miss.Y. However, when I was in the theatre, when I asked if Mr.X (the registrar) is around? the nurses doesn't seems know who am I talking about, whereas if I call the registrar by first name, the nurses instantly know who am I talking about. Different cases when I asked by the consultant Mr.Y is around though. Nurses seem to know the consultants in both firstname and surname. I guess probably the consultant's surname was up in the rota sheet most of the time whereas the registrar's surname keep changing all the time. |
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 9/11/2011 6:08 AM GMT
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In Response to Re: How to address your Consultant?: Odysseus, for written letters,how about simply: Dear colleague.(?) . Posted by yoram chaiter Greetings dear colleagues Yes can't agree any less Regards |
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 9/11/2011 9:13 AM GMT
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As the conversation seems to be extending, may I offer two other observations? When I worked in Sweden, thirty years ago, all female nurses were addressed as "Sister" (syster, pron. 'suster') and a male nurse, "Brother" (bror). A delightful carry-over from the ancient monastic tradition of healing, more pleasant to my ears than the unweildy-in-Swedish 'nurse' (sjuksköterska), and far preferable to UK usage of 'Charge Nurse' for a male ward sister. And 'Sir' or 'Madam' (Ma'am)! So useful when dealing with a patient and you have forgotten their name! Respectful, polite and so much better than our fashion for calling aged, reserved people 'Dolly' or 'Fred'! John |
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 14/11/2011 2:30 PM GMT
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In Response to Re: How to address your Consultant?: I think that you should ask your consultant how they wish to be addressed - Do they want to be Dr X, or just plain John or maybe even Dr John. As a consultant myself, I prefer the latter. I think we should extend the same curtesy to patients and ask how they wish to be addressed, not just assuming that we can use John or Mary. |
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Re: How to address your Consultant?
posted at 25/11/2011 5:20 AM GMT
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