Viewpoint: Patient, Not Provider First

A 49-year-old patient is brought to the emergency room after sustaining a broken femur during a motor vehicle accident. The patient gives the name “Jennifer,” but hospital staff find a driver’s license with the name “David” and sex identified as male. The patient is stable and cognitively intact. The medical staff appear confused, as the patient physically appears female but is observed to have male genitalia on exam.