Comments on: Health “Professionals”

By: JPLand

JPLand — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:53:47 +0000

DruU,
It’s tough to find that line between “getting a second opinion” and “bring a hypochondriac”, isn’t it? I tend to always think that if I ignore my symptoms long enough, they’ll go away. in light of your situation, it’s probably not the smartest thing to do. Then again, most of my symptoms involve self-inflicted pain.

Carmen,
How can you say that an unneeded urine specimen in “nothing”? I’m still going through therapy.

Amanda,
I’m confused about what you are implying. Are you trying to say that we are old? Indeed, we are still spring chickens! It was just 10 years ago that we were running around the red track. 10 years isn’t a long time….is it?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:14:43 +0000

I know how you feel. I went to the doctor a month or two ago. I got on the scales so I could be weighed, was shown my room and waited for the doctor. He finally comes in and looks at my chart. I told him that we had discussed my headaches before. There was no record of it on my chart. Come to find out, wrong chart! I would have liked to have kept this other chart, I would have been a few years younger!!

By: Carmen

Carmen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:44:58 +0000

As an RN for nearly a decade now, you’d be amazed at the medical errors made by nurses (and some doctors). Deadly errors. I know of one nurse who has lost her nursing license. An unneeded urine specimen is nothing.

What do you call the guy who graduates last in his class from medical school? Doctor.

By: Dru

Dru — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:15:39 +0000

Are you sure it wasn’t a VA hospital you were at? I went to the VA hospital for the past year for losing feeling in my legs. They have since told me there is no problem and I should learn to deal with any pain and discomfort I feel.
Last month I went into a Nuerosurgeon that was recommended to me and first thing he does after reading my MRI, X-Ray and Cat scan was say, “I hate saying this to a patient the first time we meet, and to a patient as young as you but… We have to do surgery.”
So the VA telling me there is nothing wrong and now what I like to refer to as a Real Doctor has found so many problems he is trying to decide if surgery will fix all of them or atleast give me a couple extra years without walking assistance.
The main concern, Losing feeling in my arms as well.
Doctors and their staff are all filling positions that are, to me, an Art.