Does your name affect the success of your private practice?

[carlosc1dbz]

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Quick question, if you live in a predominantly white city, and you decided to become a psychiatrist and open up your own office, would your name affect your success? Lets say for example your name is Abmehad Thokatura? Or Juan Gabriel Montes de Oca? Would people care about going to you as a psychiatrist? Thanks ahead for all the responses.

 

[fMRI]

Quick question, if you live in a predominantly white city, and you decided to become a psychiatrist and open up your own office, would your name affect your success? Lets say for example your name is Abmehad Thokatura? Or Juan Gabriel Montes de Oca? Would people care about going to you as a psychiatrist? Thanks ahead for all the responses.

Would it make a difference to you if you were to chose a cardiologist or neurosurgeon?

 

[peppy]

After working with several Indian attending psychiatrists in some areas with large white populations, I would say that it won't matter much as long as you have a good "bedside manner". The Indian docs I worked with were very good at putting patients at ease and the patients loved them for the most part. I can recall one incident where a patient told one of the Indian docs to "go back to his own country" but as a psychiatrist you have to expect some patients will be guarded or hostile towards you no matter who you are just because of your profession.

 

[masterofmonkeys]

I am actually planning on doing the same thing the Indian call center people (like several of my cousins) do and use a fake Anglicized name. "No my name isn't x, it's actually Jake Peters. What are you talking about? I'm part German and part Irish. I just tan a lot. And die my hair black. And eat a lot of curry. Can you blame me? have you tried what the Irish call food?"

I personally love being told to go back to my country. I just respond "Texas? It's not a country anymore. We just wish it still was."

 

[carlosc1dbz]

LOL thats pretty funny. I wonder if Ill ever experience anything like that. I have a good response in mind, which is, "what about you, when are you going back to Europe, Oh Im sorry, I didnt know you were a native American." lol

As far as the first response if it would matter when picking a cardiologist or neurologist, I would say that in my opinion, the relationship with a psychiatrist is more intimate, that is why I was wondering if people would care if the doctor was say white if they were white.

 

[carlosc1dbz]

I am actually planning on doing the same thing the Indian call center people (like several of my cousins) do and use a fake Anglicized name. "No my name isn't x, it's actually Jake Peters. What are you talking about? I'm part German and part Irish. I just tan a lot. And die my hair black. And eat a lot of curry. Can you blame me? have you tried what the Irish call food?"

I personally love being told to go back to my country. I just respond "Texas? It's not a country anymore. We just wish it still was."

Yes, I think that Texas is a pretty cool place. That's why they can fly the Texas flag as high as the US flag. Aside from Texas, what other tattoos of states look good?

 

[sideways]

Aside from Texas, what other tattoos of states look good?

 

[kugel]

I personally love being told to go back to my country. I just respond "Texas? It's not a country anymore. We just wish it still was."

If Gov Perry had his way, it would be again.
Can we just let Perry secede? Not all of Texas, just Perry.

In Med School, a peer of mine (w/ parents from India), who was very "mainstream", was asked if she planned to return to her country after graduation. She honestly didn't understand the question and responded, "NO! I'm Never going back to Detroit."