Doctor's Notes

[gomer]

Since we are on a divergent path............

Here is a fun-E one, in retrospect.

I was at my MS clinic for a 10am apt. A doc (underling to my MS specialist) came in with chart in hand. She started asking questions, one after another, routine..hey this was a MS clinic so all seemed rational. Then all of a sudden something did not fit. Then she said OH you're not Mr Z? No! Not hardly.

She left and I had to wait in the little exam room for THREE HOURS before I was actually seen. Would have been nice had they simply had me go for lunch (upstairs) and return.

They stared at my stash of snack wraps, but said nothing. I always try and be prepared, I am an insulin dependent diabetic and never go anywhere w/o some food to stay off a hypo. (insulin reaction). The only good part was I was in a hospital!

Gomer Sir Falls-a-lot

[Leeaura]

This one is funny too.

My SIL is assertive to say the least! Several years ago, her mother was in the hospital near the end. SIL was there around-the-clock and was apparently keeping hospital staff on their toes. She looked in her mothers file one day and found a note that said "red-headed daughter abrasive"! She almost blew a gasket.....

[Ga dancer]

I was a nurse in my pre-MS healthy days, and physicians are even more rushed now trying to make up for reduced insurance payments and non-insured patients.

The physicians generally do not review their typed notes, whether dictated or voice transcribed software. Mistakes can and do happen and it is easy for them to overlook or mistake your evaluation symptoms.

I have been obtaining medical records from my very large number of specialists for an increasing variety of problems . I have had to submit them to Johns Hopkins to schedule appointments where all these people can actually talk to each other as well as me since I am being told that now I am "complex" by my doctors.

Well, I have found a lot of mistakes and things overlooked in all the records. It's not that the doctors are incompetent, its just that record keeping is usually low on their priorities. Some problems are office staff, some are just transcription errors. It is not difficult to obtain your records, and I plan to obtain my records more frequently from now on.

Johns Hopkins neuro department has MS listed under infectious diseases on their website. This is why I chose them - my problems started with an acute illness that never got better.