Fao Sqad

[Marijn]

Hello Sqad, please could you tell me what "pleasant lady" means when it is written on the letter from the consultant to the GP. I am aware that doctors use code between each other, and wondered what this one meant. Thank you.

[anneasquith]

I am neither a retired doctor or squad but,at a guess I'd say its a reference to being a pleasant lady ? :-)

[-SharonA-]

You are a pleasant lady!! Simples!

[woofgang]

well yes, it probably is as simple as that but doctors shouldn’t do this. letters between doctors form part of the medical record and personal remarks of any nature should be avoided. Any kind of code is especially heinous.

[Marijn]

Thank you both but I have had this on every consultants' letter to my Gps for years. I know doctors have a code, so I just wondered if it was one of them. Thanks :-)

[tonyav]

It's code for you not gonna be a pain in the derriere, Marijn.

[Marijn]

Thank you Woofgang and Tonyav too.

[woofgang]

Is it always the same consultant? If it is, it may just be a verbal “thinking” tic. He will probably dictate his letters aloud and many people put in extra words to allow for thinking time as they speak.

[anneasquith]

Do you think gp's and consultants actually use " Code" to each other. ?

[Mamyalynne]

Discussed here and comments by some who use it too....



https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/04/consultants-code-gps

[Marijn]

Thank you. Yes, different consultants to my previous GP, and to my current GP also.
And yes there are codes. Sqad mentioned it before about the codes, but I can't remember any of them.

[Marijn]

Thank you Mamyalynne . Someone else obviously wondered the same thing as me :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Yes it looks that way.

[anneasquith]

I'm sure at one time code was used but not now.

[Cloverjo]

I think my mum had a similar comment in her consultant's letters to GP. I think it just means what it says.

I wish they wouldn't always be quite so honest, though. My OH was described as obese in one of his consultant's letters. No code there. Just plain fact. Mortifying for him though.

[slaney]

As others have said pleasant means just that - agreeable - no code.
I'm not aware of ever having used any such codes in letters and would be very surprised if they had been used in the last 30 years.

[Marijn]

Thank you all. Slaney are you also a doctor?

[slaney]

Yes - retired now.

[Old_Geezer]

Now, you are absolutely, 100% sure that there was an 'l' in the word ?
;-)

[Marijn]

Thank you Slaney. Yes OG, I am a peasant too :-)

[jennyjoan]

My mum had on her notes "tiny lady" - she was over the moon as she always thought herself obese. Sadly she died 3 weeks later.