Thread by @Suburbanbella

Listen, I don't want anymore f***ing trolls coming into my threads trying to tell me who I am. I am CLEARLY stating right here, right now that I don't and never will embrace that f***ing title "provider". Why? Because it is a verbal construct of the corporate practice of medicine

2)(CPOM)/PE that was designed to do exactly what it is doing...depersonalize, dehumanize and conflate HCPs. Perfect for a business that doesn't give one s**t about HCPs or patients who they view as widgets and commodities, respectively. I DESPISE the business of medicine--it is

3)antithetical to my oath. It is why I helped co-found Take Medicine Back, to get the Cartel(PE), (CMGs) and Ho's(traitor trash HCPs) the f**k out of medicine because they have turned our house into a Whorehouse of Medicine and the patients into victims. As far as I am concerned,

4)anyone who embraces that vile term embraces the business of medicine. Don't ask me to explain the bizarre Stockholm Syndrome-like hard-on some HCPs exhibit for CPOM/PE. Some people just can't recognize when they are being insulted to their face and react

5)with a "Thank you Sir, may I have more?" sycophantic attitude. I am a writer. Words have meaning. PR folks understand all too well the power of the insidious use of words in marketing. That is exactly what happened in medicine. PCP used to mean "Primary Care Physician".

6)It seguéd to "Primary Care Provider". Ever wonder how? Why? You think that s**t was happenstance? If so, I have a bridge for sale in Siberia. If businesspeople know nothing else, they know marketing. And the most brilliant marketers manage to get those they gouge and

7)victimize to sign on for more abuse. Just read through the f***ing threads and see how many HCPs and people in the public have welcomed that loathsome title warmly into their bosom. Welp, I haven't and I won't. I am a healer. I treat patients--not commodities. I have a calling

8)and a job. I am a cussing Christian and God gave me a gift--the ability to practice medicine. I bestow care, impart knowledge and give of myself to patients. I took an oath. And no where in that oath is that s**t term "provider". My license says "Physician and Surgeon", not

9)"provider". I submit that there is something seriously wrong with a mindset of folks who believe that physicians referring to themselves as "Physicians" or "Doctors", which they actually are, is egotistical. How dare we. I will never understand that logic(or illogic).

10)For those of you who believe that "provider" is innocuous and prefer that detestable word--carry on. But don't you dare tell me how I define myself. I decide that. No one else. #transparencymatters @pppforpatients @TakeMedBack