Opinion: Let’s banish the term ‘patient’ from the health care lexicon
Almost every industry has changed the term for the people they serve. We are now passengers, guests, members, customers, and more. The big exception? Health care. To those in the field, whether it’s clinicians or researchers or pharmaceutical marketers, we are all “patients” — even when we feel fine and aren’t in a hospital or doctor’s office.
It’s time to stop categorizing people this way, which puts them in submissive and dehumanizing roles.
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