I looked for the "pitiful" or "sad" category and didn't find one . I guess Humor fits this story. I was in the hospital this morning visiting my mother-in-law. She's been in there over 3 weeks. An LPN came in to check her vitals. When she was complete I asked her about her blood pressure and heart rate. She said the blood pressure was fine. I mentioned her heart rate was 97 and was that normal in her state. She explained (these are her words) when you're young your heart rate is not as fast as hers (she's 84) as you grow older your heart rate is deceased.
My next question was going to be...could that be fatal?
There was a moment of silence as my wife and I looked at each other....after a few seconds there was still nothing to say.
Still shaking my head:-S
I have one to tell
A Horror Story category would be ideal for this.
Last month I asked the pharmacy to fax in for a refill of an RX I have been taking the last 14 years, same doctor.
The pharmacy said it was denied and that the medical group it was faxed to said they did not know who I was.
Yesterday, I called my doctor to schedule an appointment, and I was told that I am not a patient according to their records. I had to explain, more than once and to more than one person there, that I indeed was a patient and that the same Dr had been OK ing the refills for some time. I was told that I would get a call back.
I got the call and the person on the other end told me the Dr would OK a refill if the pharmacy would fax in a request..again, but I would need to schedule an appt and see the Dr before another refill would be approved. I was also told that my last recorded appointment was in 2005. The RX is a controlled medication, yet for all these years the Dr has been reissuing RX and Ok'ing refills.
The medical profession is full of very large holes.
I have one to tell
I agree with that Paul
Have never been a regular to visit doctors except for needed stitches and an exam years apart for flu like symptoms that would not go away on its own.
With that, I have been dropped from many a doctor's patient list and then they did not need any more patients at this time. I had to find a new doctor at next need for an exam. Haven't actually seen the doctor in years. The nurse pratictioner takes care of actual office visits.
Clinics update their records often and if a person has not had an appointment for along time their records are dropped from their system. I have even got letters from them that state for a yearly "outrageous" fee they will continue to keep my records.
Nowadays, all records are sent to a national database, so they are not lost. Just not always on that last doctors computer.
Of course, there is a form to fill out and a fee for accessing your records from the database so the next doctor can begin their treatment.
