You got it!

Nursing school may be many years behind me, but a few things have been branded into my brain for all times. One such lesson was that when you greet a patient or client, you introduce yourself by name and title and you request their preferred name from them. To clarify preferred, I generally know the patients name, but often people go by nicknames or shortened names and I want to know what the patient prefers that I call them. Easy enough. Depending on the situation and the patient themselves I sometime have my own secret nickname for them, but they generally do not match the patients preferred name. Until today. BINGO... a patient and their nurse is on the same page!! So while I can't express to you how much I wish that I was the particular nurse taking care of this particular patient... I will have to live (and tell) vicariously through a co-worker!! The patient is admitted to the unit for a diagnosis that lends him to slightly forgetful moments and occasional strange behavior. None-the-less, the nurse enters the patients room and goes through introductions, then she asks the patient 'Robert' (all names and specifics/ diagnosis have been altered, but the stories are true) "What do you like to be called... Robert, Rob, Bob...?" The patient, who has been acting appropriate since the beginning of the encounter looks the nurse square in the eye and politely tells her, and I quote, "you can call me 'assh***."
Okay then... you got it. And now we don't need to bother with the secret nickname!