I spent a month with a child in the Children’s Heart Centre near us. Not a stethoscope to be seen.
My GP will pull one out when appropriate.
In hospital the scrubs are colour coded and they have a sign on the ward telling you who everyone is and what they do. So the housekeeping and food people have scrubs too. They’re all part of the care of patients.
Maybe doctors in America are different but there is a culture of deference there that really squicks me out. Imagine someone calling their father sir? Or anyone in fact unless you have to.
I would call a judge your honour if I was a defendant but that’s just immediate power imbalance.
I’m told that while consultants talk to us patients as Síle or Seosaimh or whatever they like a bit of bowing down done by the medical staff that answer to them.
