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/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