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On topic: Our wedding anniversary is in Dec and will mark 9 years, me however, I celebrate our first date as the real anniversary. Did not date anyone else after that so it would only seem fitting. The wedding was just a formality of the commitment we made during the first date, unspoken at the time, of course.

 

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tIt's about why you should question your doctor

 

Go on :baiting:

 

I'm curious as to why my patients should question me.

 

Three main reasons patients should question doctors (and in this discussion doctors was a code word for healthcare provider). Three main points. two backed up with examples from the healthcare organization I work for and one by my own personal experience.

 

Asking your doctor questions assists you in getting the "right care", "the proper level of care" and that you are not getting "care you do not need"

 

The right care - The company I work for had a patient about 9 years ago that was going to have their left arm amputated. When the patient awoke from surgery, the right arm had been removed instead of the left. Patient was cited in the local paper as knowing something was wrong when they started preping the right arm and put the IV in the left, but didnt QUESTION anyone why that was happening. (I'm not saying this or any other medical mistake is the patients fault. Just using it as an example)

 

The proper level of care - We recently had an orthopedic surgeon put in a total knee replacement construct that is designed for active (read that as mobile) people in their late 40s-50s that is one of the highest cost constructs on the market into a bed ridden 97 year old woman. Her family was furious after the fact when they received the bill which included the charges for the implants and saw how much they would have been billed if she had not been covered under medicare (which made for a wonderful story on the local tv news). If they had QUESTIONED the doctor before what he was going to be implanting, they could have been informed as to what was going on. (in fact their are TONS of examples like this on both ends, receiving not enough care and receiving too much care)

 

Care you do not need - This was my personal experience. I hurt my shoulder. Went to my GP. He had me get X-rays, scheduled me for an MRI, and referred me to the Orthopedic specialist all in the same visit. Had the x-rays that day, three days later had the MRI, two days after that the specialist visit. Specialist comes in looks at me, checks me over, "might need surgery", leaves the room. His PA comes in with his orders to get a X-Rays and an MRI (at his clinic) on a seperate visit. I balked and said I had just paid over $400 for X-rays and an MRI, why wouldn't they work. Because I QUESTIONED my doctor, I did not have to a second set of X-rays and an MRI, saving myself and my insurance company money.

 

 

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I made sure to stress that doctors know what they are talking about (most of the time :baiting: ) and to make sure not to question because you want to be pissy, but to be polite and just try to get all the info you can from the doc to be able to make the best informed decision regarding your own healthcare.

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tIt's about why you should question your doctor

 

Go on :baiting:

 

I'm curious as to why my patients should question me.

 

Three main reasons patients should question doctors (and in this discussion doctors was a code word for healthcare provider). Three main points. two backed up with examples from the healthcare organization I work for and one by my own personal experience.

 

Asking your doctor questions assists you in getting the "right care", "the proper level of care" and that you are not getting "care you do not need"

 

The right care - The company I work for had a patient about 9 years ago that was going to have their left arm amputated. When the patient awoke from surgery, the right arm had been removed instead of the left. Patient was cited in the local paper as knowing something was wrong when they started preping the right arm and put the IV in the left, but didnt QUESTION anyone why that was happening. (I'm not saying this or any other medical mistake is the patients fault. Just using it as an example)

 

The proper level of care - We recently had an orthopedic surgeon put in a total knee replacement construct that is designed for active (read that as mobile) people in their late 40s-50s that is one of the highest cost constructs on the market into a bed ridden 97 year old woman. Her family was furious after the fact when they received the bill which included the charges for the implants and saw how much they would have been billed if she had not been covered under medicare (which made for a wonderful story on the local tv news). If they had QUESTIONED the doctor before what he was going to be implanting, they could have been informed as to what was going on. (in fact their are TONS of examples like this on both ends, receiving not enough care and receiving too much care)

 

Care you do not need - This was my personal experience. I hurt my shoulder. Went to my GP. He had me get X-rays, scheduled me for an MRI, and referred me to the Orthopedic specialist all in the same visit. Had the x-rays that day, three days later had the MRI, two days after that the specialist visit. Specialist comes in looks at me, checks me over, "might need surgery", leaves the room. His PA comes in with his orders to get a X-Rays and an MRI (at his clinic) on a seperate visit. I balked and said I had just paid over $400 for X-rays and an MRI, why wouldn't they work. Because I QUESTIONED my doctor, I did not have to a second set of X-rays and an MRI, saving myself and my insurance company money.

 

 

AND

 

I made sure to stress that doctors know what they are talking about (most of the time :baiting: ) and to make sure not to question because you want to be pissy, but to be polite and just try to get all the info you can from the doc to be able to make the best informed decision regarding your own healthcare.

 

ahh, the great wrong arm/leg horror story.

 

same happened at the hospital i worked at, funny though, the arm was incinerated before it was known that it was the wrong arm hm

 

 

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tIt's about why you should question your doctor

 

Go on :baiting:

 

I'm curious as to why my patients should question me.

 

Three main reasons patients should question doctors (and in this discussion doctors was a code word for healthcare provider). Three main points. two backed up with examples from the healthcare organization I work for and one by my own personal experience.

 

Asking your doctor questions assists you in getting the "right care", "the proper level of care" and that you are not getting "care you do not need"

 

The right care - The company I work for had a patient about 9 years ago that was going to have their left arm amputated. When the patient awoke from surgery, the right arm had been removed instead of the left. Patient was cited in the local paper as knowing something was wrong when they started preping the right arm and put the IV in the left, but didnt QUESTION anyone why that was happening. (I'm not saying this or any other medical mistake is the patients fault. Just using it as an example)

 

The proper level of care - We recently had an orthopedic surgeon put in a total knee replacement construct that is designed for active (read that as mobile) people in their late 40s-50s that is one of the highest cost constructs on the market into a bed ridden 97 year old woman. Her family was furious after the fact when they received the bill which included the charges for the implants and saw how much they would have been billed if she had not been covered under medicare (which made for a wonderful story on the local tv news). If they had QUESTIONED the doctor before what he was going to be implanting, they could have been informed as to what was going on. (in fact their are TONS of examples like this on both ends, receiving not enough care and receiving too much care)

 

Care you do not need - This was my personal experience. I hurt my shoulder. Went to my GP. He had me get X-rays, scheduled me for an MRI, and referred me to the Orthopedic specialist all in the same visit. Had the x-rays that day, three days later had the MRI, two days after that the specialist visit. Specialist comes in looks at me, checks me over, "might need surgery", leaves the room. His PA comes in with his orders to get a X-Rays and an MRI (at his clinic) on a seperate visit. I balked and said I had just paid over $400 for X-rays and an MRI, why wouldn't they work. Because I QUESTIONED my doctor, I did not have to a second set of X-rays and an MRI, saving myself and my insurance company money.

 

 

AND

 

I made sure to stress that doctors know what they are talking about (most of the time :baiting: ) and to make sure not to question because you want to be pissy, but to be polite and just try to get all the info you can from the doc to be able to make the best informed decision regarding your own healthcare.

 

ahh, the great wrong arm/leg horror story.

 

same happened at the hospital i worked at, funny though, the arm was incinerated before it was known that it was the wrong arm hm

 

 

not funny Ha-Ha, but funny scared.

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