diff --git a/bson/raw.go b/bson/raw.go
index b8fe4cc525..fe990a1771 100644
--- a/bson/raw.go
+++ b/bson/raw.go
@@ -22,13 +22,21 @@ var ErrNilReader = errors.New("nil reader")
 // A Raw must be a full BSON document. Use the RawValue type for individual BSON values.
 type Raw []byte
 
-// NewFromIOReader reads in a document from the given io.Reader and constructs a Raw from
-// it.
-func NewFromIOReader(r io.Reader) (Raw, error) {
+// ReadDocument reads a BSON document from the io.Reader and returns it as a bson.Raw. If the
+// reader contains multiple BSON documents, only the first document is read.
+func ReadDocument(r io.Reader) (Raw, error) {
 	doc, err := bsoncore.NewDocumentFromReader(r)
 	return Raw(doc), err
 }
 
+// NewFromIOReader reads a BSON document from the io.Reader and returns it as a bson.Raw. If the
+// reader contains multiple BSON documents, only the first document is read.
+//
+// Deprecated: Use ReadDocument instead.
+func NewFromIOReader(r io.Reader) (Raw, error) {
+	return ReadDocument(r)
+}
+
 // Validate validates the document. This method only validates the first document in
 // the slice, to validate other documents, the slice must be resliced.
 func (r Raw) Validate() (err error) { return bsoncore.Document(r).Validate() }
diff --git a/bson/raw_test.go b/bson/raw_test.go
index 12283d6d85..02c9f63136 100644
--- a/bson/raw_test.go
+++ b/bson/raw_test.go
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ func TestRaw(t *testing.T) {
 			})
 		}
 	})
-	t.Run("NewFromIOReader", func(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("ReadDocument", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
 		testCases := []struct {
 			name       string
 			ioReader   io.Reader
@@ -338,8 +339,11 @@ func TestRaw(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 
 		for _, tc := range testCases {
+			tc := tc // Capture range variable.
 			t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-				reader, err := NewFromIOReader(tc.ioReader)
+				t.Parallel()
+
+				reader, err := ReadDocument(tc.ioReader)
 				require.Equal(t, err, tc.err)
 				require.True(t, bytes.Equal(tc.bsonReader, reader))
 			})