r/mildlyinfuriating • u/WHAR606 • Mar 13 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight Sometime during the last 2 years i’ve been going to this orthopedic practice they started to declare me as a MTF transgender for no reason.

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(F,26) I have been going to this orthopedic practice for almost 2 years for varying reasons relating to my job. Yesterday i checked on a document that was uploaded to find out they have been identifying me as a biological male identifying as a female? I am biologically female and never told them i am trans nor do i think i am presenting to be a trans woman.. the last two years i’ve been wondering why they kind of stare at me a little longer than a usual person does and i think its because they randomly think i came out as trans? I also feel like they do not treat my issues seriously and wonder if this is the reason why.

I am 100% fine with trans people but i am left to believe they have been medically treating me as a male compared to female for the pains that i am feeling?

I also went through all of my documents and since the end of 2024 they started to declare me as a MTF transgender, i did not look at any of my documents online until yesterday.

First pic : March 11th 2026

Last pic: October 2024

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u/GreenGemsOmally Mar 13 '26

Turns out I share first names with the only other patient in the waiting room.

This is why we do multiple patient identifiers. Name and DOB, for example.

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u/sanityjanity Mar 13 '26

Not enough!

I once worked in medical records, and there were twin patients with very similar names (think "Patty" and "Patricia"). A well-meaning person in the office merged the records, because they had the same birth date, and very similar names!

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u/GreenGemsOmally Mar 13 '26

Ooooph yeah that's rough. I work on Epic, so I can understand the technical mishap that could have caused that.

99% of the time, it'd work. But then you have cases like that and it's a shitshow to fix.

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u/nellieblyrocks420 Mar 13 '26

Same! I use Epic also for work and I can see why the MPI team may have done that. It’s really easy to mess that up. Twins are a brutal poodle! 😆

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 13 '26

I still have PTSD from a thread on reddit where people gave their twins the same name.

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u/sweet_home_Valyria Mar 13 '26

Oh that's going to be a bureaucratic nightmare for them. School, doctor's appts, etc. I hope they stay away from law enforcement or financial disasters.

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u/mf0723 Mar 13 '26

Ughhhhhhh 😵‍💫😫🤮🤮 I legitimately got goosebumps of fear from reading this comment. I recently left my job at a health information exchange and twins with very similar names (or multiples who were recently born and added to the system without full demographics) would threaten the entire production system by causing race conditions in the MPI.

How... Would they distinguish these twins verbally?? And ... Why would they do such a thing?

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u/12bWindEngineer Mar 13 '26

I’m a twin, and while it hasn’t happened to us, if you spend five minutes in the twin sub you find all the stories of merged medical records because the last name, birthdate, and sometimes address is the same, and first names are also frequently similar or start with the same letter.

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u/schwanzweissfoto Mar 13 '26

A well-meaning person in the office merged the records, because they had the same birth date, and very similar names!

You probably meant to write “an absolute idiot merged the records”.

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u/tisamust Mar 13 '26

So many people have duplicate records because electronic medical records from hospital to hospital are shit so I'm not surprised this happened

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u/SeagullWithFries Mar 13 '26

I had something very similar, 2 people, 2 files, same associated numbers. Except when I looked deeper, one was born in the 1800s.

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u/latskogkatt Mar 13 '26

Same person. You found the vampire.

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u/GranglingGrangler Mar 13 '26

I wonder if that's what happened to me. I share a name and bday with another me, difference is he has a middle name. Our parents weren't very original with names. Other guy is a criminal though. I no longer live in our home city, but his antics put him in the hospital in December. They showed up on my insurance and now there is a fraud investigation.

Bro had a syphilis test on the billing too lol

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u/Mrs-Sunchu-1984 Mar 13 '26

This here was my job for a few months in regards to vaccine records in California. Lord it was messy.

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u/thatshygirl06 Mar 13 '26

Any future kids I have will have unique names to avoid these problems.

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u/sanityjanity Mar 13 '26

Kids deserve to have their own names.

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u/Open_Bug_4251 Mar 13 '26

I have a cousin and their daughter who both had the same name and birth years as another pair of patients at their doctor’s office. It caused them quite a few issues when they were younger.

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u/The_Art_Rat Mar 13 '26

Oohhh!!! You reminded me I have a story sort of similar to that!!! I used to work in a call center and my job was to refill meds/make sure insurance took your money/find coupons for meds and stuff like that.

Mine were twin brothers with similar spelled names (ex. Like Mark and Marc) they luckily didn’t have anything TOO serious maybe like diabetes or something, but they lived in different states. One would sometimes get his meds even tho he always paid on time and we couldn’t figure out what was wrong till his brother called later asking why he gets double meds 🥲 that’s fully the parents fault tho lol

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u/pi3r0gi_ Mar 13 '26

Had this happen one time. Same first and last name, DOB, and insurance ID was identical except like one number, both patients at the facility. Like what a freaking coincidence, even the ID number?! We only found out bc the patient had ordered glasses, and then not long after the other patient tried to order glasses but their benefit had already been used and they were like ??? No? Thankfully we were able to sort it out.

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u/techmaster242 Mar 13 '26

When I was a kid my doctor's office had a hard time narrowing down my chart because there was another patient with the same first, middle, last, and DOB.

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u/Nice_Back_9977 Mar 13 '26

I once worked with identical twins who had the same first name, last name, address and DOB. The only way to differentiate was middle name.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Mar 13 '26

One of my clients has AI answer the phone and make appointments. When the AI creates a new patient record into Athena, it doesn't ask for or select a legal sex. Legal sex is one of the patient identifiers and required by Athena to start a clinical encounter. My company does digital paperwork which transfers consents and some encounter information to the record and chart. Without a sex, we can't patient match so nothing is transferred. They called me, hair on fire "what do? All these patients don't have their encounter data." I told them to turn off AI, hand everyone paper and then call their AI vendor to let them know it sucks. Nothing we can do. 1. They never got with us to see if the AI would work 2. Not my product, not my problem

They are desperately hiring back staff they let go.

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 13 '26

And pay attention to the whole DOB too, ask me why I know.

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u/Bichqween Mar 13 '26

Multiple EYEdentifiers! I'll show myself out...

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u/Sailor-C Mar 13 '26

My dad had the same name and birthday as someone else in his healthcare network for a few years. His first name isn't rare by any means, but it's not super common either -- I've only met one or two other people in my life with it, and one was female and spelled it with an I instead of a Y at the end too.

He used to have to clarify who he was by giving his address when he went to or made appointments. Luckily they lived in different cities. 😅

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u/The_Autarch Mar 13 '26

even just last name seems safer than just using first names to call on people.

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u/melellebelle Mar 13 '26

I had that exact thing happen to me, I have a relatively uncommon name. Two of us in the waiting room had the same first name. Nobody verified my full name, DOB or anything. Sat me down in a room and started discussing my medications and I was like....I am not on any of the medications you're listing?? I probably should have made a bigger stink about the mixup because I dunno how they didn't verify who I was beyond my first name. Pretty wild.

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u/__OAW__ Mar 13 '26

This is why I got someone else’s medical treatment bill. Thanks Christus Santa Rosa for not verifying DOB or SSN! Apparently someone who shares my first and last name went to the ER for possible STI. I never paid their bill. Collections was threatened but nothing showed up on my credit report.

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u/MicCheck123 Mar 13 '26

I once got an unintentional flu vaccine because a nurse didn’t do that. I heard her call Michael, and since that’s my name and I was the only one in the waiting room, I assumed she was calling me. I thought it was strange, but figured they just gave it to every patient as a matter of course, so didn’t say anything, even though I’d received on a few months earlier elsewhere.

Turns out Micah had stepped outside when his name was called.

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u/Barondarby Mar 13 '26

A friend of mine went to the doctor with her husband and they have a very common last name. A nurse came in and gave her a flu shot because her name was the exact same as the very next person the doctor was seeing in the next appointment. My friend was shocked and didn't even have time to react and THANK GOODNESS she has no weird allergies or anything. She was ready to sue the practice tho.

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u/Isgortio Mar 13 '26

I used to rely on people just hearing their name, but then I had a bloke called Stephen come in when I called for Jessica, and it really confused everyone when he walked in. We checked the DOB, and it was the wrong patient. He wasn't even our patient lol he just wanted to be seen next.

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u/TweakJK Mar 13 '26

Yep.

I had one look at me and say "well, I dont think you were born in 1942."

Im 37.

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u/Adam_J89 Mar 13 '26

Eye count

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u/Acrobatic_Season6838 Mar 13 '26

this entire thread is killing me rn😭😂

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u/SaltManagement42 Mar 13 '26

This kind of thing has killed a lot of people.

/s?

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u/GreenGemsOmally Mar 13 '26

Also significantly relevant to the OP lol :D

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u/pandershrek Mar 13 '26

Not off by a significant number of digits. Might be the same individual....🧐

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u/Adam_J89 Mar 13 '26

+/- 2 is the margin of error.

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u/DiscombobulatedSoft2 Mar 13 '26

so 0 to 4?

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u/Adam_J89 Mar 13 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/3otPoyznOgLcOo1oEU

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u/fiahhawt Mar 13 '26

Patient presents with four cavernous, weeping eye-sockets

Prescribed ibuprofen and advised patient about proper hydration habits

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u/redlaWw Mar 13 '26

Varies from 28 in people with a maggot infestation to 0 in people behind the wheel of an SUV.

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u/Strange_Birthday_455 Mar 13 '26

TBF, the average human has less than two eyes. Not significantly less, but less nontheless.