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I often answer the doctor office intake questionnaires with a glaring mistake just to see if anyone checks. Where it says “have you ever been pregnant?” I answe
by airesearcher 4y ago
I often answer the doctor office intake questionnaires with a glaring mistake just to see if anyone checks. Where it says “have you ever been pregnant?” I answer yes. I also mark that I am a male. No doctor’s office has ever mentioned this to me after I turn in the forms.
- hotpotamus 4y agoThose aren't actually considered to necessarily be in conflict these days. I think sex assigned at birth or something like that would probably be the relevant medical question.
- javawizard 4y agoThis exactly: gender and possession of a uterus are two very different things.
- ectopod 4y agoMedical forms tend to ask for sex, not gender.
- paulmd 4y agomodern medical forms do indeed ask for sex assigned at birth (or some variation on that) rather than gender, unless gender is specifically what they're after. And there really is very little variation since almost everyone is part of a hospital system nowadays and literally everyone does state/insurance interactions that require specific questions/etc. OP is just being colloquial. But you are correct that there is a difference between sex at birth and gender and the medical system does handle that.
- tuyiown 4y agoWhy would you think someone would check ? This information is only consulted if it's needed, or for later cross checks. Nobody cares if it's correct or not until your health is in the line.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoWhen I go to a new doctor, they read the intake form information.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoThese are fun. I got told very clearly to not check any of the boxes related to mental health shortly after being diagnosed bipolar. If I was suicidal but under treatment for it, I wasn’t suicidal for the purposes of the form. Apparently I triggered some mandatory reporting law abd made a headache for everyone involved. Oops.
- szszrk 4y agoThe pregnancy is usually the one thing that is promptly checked when a young man fills a form as a blood donor where I live. The form is a table, most questions are yes/no with a separate column you mark with X. The pregnancy row has a twist, it's "fill if you are a women" type. Thankfully nurses know that well, check it instantly and ask to actually read the form. Blood donations are usually fun.
- noisy_boy 4y agoAlternative explanation is that they do check it and after reconciling the checkbox and gender inputs against your (presumably) obvious appearance, choose to attribute it to a mistake and ignore it.
- berkes 4y agoBut which entry then is mistaken?
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoRealistically what's gonna happen is that the doctor will ignore it and the insurance company or some other bureaucracy (insurance, state regulator, etc) will use your errant answer as a pretext to do something that is advantageous for them at the expense of some other party (you, your doctor, etc).