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Why I don't do pediatric nursing...

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April 16, 2019, 01:26 PM
jhe888
Why I don't do pediatric nursing...
Maybe "Bubba" is offensive, and maybe it isn't. I tend to think it isn't very offensive if at all. I am a southerner, but have spent appreciable time in the frozen north country as well.

But I know for sure that "asshole" is offensive, and his mother should have corrected that error.

If you want something scrupulously neutral, perhaps "young man" would work. My father-in-law used "lad," but that is a little old fashioned.




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April 16, 2019, 01:28 PM
RHINOWSO
I guess it's impossible to look at a chart and use their name....?

Not excusing his shitty response, but if someone called me Bubba you'd immediately get filed into the "IDIOT" folder in my brain.
April 16, 2019, 06:47 PM
BrianC
If I spoke to an adult that way when I was that age I'd need bus fare to find my teeth.


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April 16, 2019, 09:57 PM
slabsides45
I don't think that in almost 30 years of practice I've had anyone address me that way. If I did, I do have the luxury of booting them out (my clinic my rules), I suppose, but I really have no idea how long it'd take me to absorb what had happened. Certainly, I would not let it pass without immediately being addressed and corrected by the parent.


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