• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    In the same vein.

    I don’t like it when people call Service Dogs “medical equipment.”

    It’s a living, breathing, thinking being. It is not “equipment.”

    Bare minimum, it is medical personnel.

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      3 months ago

      I’d assume that the main reason they’re referred to as “medical equipment” is for insurance reasons. They fall under that broad category of patient care, so that’s where they are grouped.

      If that’s true, you have capitalism to thank for that specification.

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        3 months ago

        I’d assume that the main reason they’re referred to as “medical equipment” is for insurance reasons

        (Looks like you do, but I never get to use that meme 😁)