On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 08:58 +0100, Mary Hawking wrote:
> Probably another age related etiquette problem, but do you address
> patients by their first names, and if so, is this all patients, or on
> some sort of scheme, e.g. age (up to 21 first name, older title and
> surname), age plus how well you know them – or some sort of gut
> feeling?
After 18 years or so, there are now several adult patients who I address
by their first name, and several who address me by mine.
Not a scheme, but by age, I'd say that up to 2 I am formal but without
names and talking in as complicated a way as I wish, from 2-10 first
name with simplified delivery, and thereafter mostly miss or master, and
usually proper English.
Adults of course I say "aaaah" to.
This is not to be taken as a formulation without exceptions.
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