Providers (was: well-endowed)

[Peter A. McGraw]

(Or should I say, "were: well-endowed"?)

"Provider" is one of those words I'm sick and tired of hearing, and I'll be
glad when they go on to the next fad and this one becomes "SO early 2000s."
I guess one reason it irks me is that I don't understand the motivation for
it.  Is it being pushed by companies like Kaiser, whose strategy is to keep
you away from an M.D. for as long as possible, so they want to promote the
idea that "physician's assistants," etc., can help you just as well as an
M.D. because they're both "providers"?  Or by the trade associations of
"providers" who aren't M.D.s?  Can someone enlighten me?

Peter Mc.

(Who, when he's sick, wants to see a "doctor," dammit!)

--On Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:18 PM -0700 Ed Keer <edkeer at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Thanks Larry, I just spent a half hour turning all the
> "doctors" in a heart brochure I'm writing into
> "healthcare providers". Fun!



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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