Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
by LorenPechtel on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:40PM
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Yup. As a patient I've found a bunch of bogus allergies in my records once that I was able to get fixed, but I know there's other stuff I've tried but the doc wasn't interested in listening. He felt he had "proved" I was mistaken/faking when he didn't listen in the first place. How am I supposed to identify the evil item in a challenge when it isn't even present? (I had said "ham". The challenge was with pork. I didn't say pork--whatever the actual evil item it was something that got added in the process of turning pork into ham.) How do you get a mistake like that out of your records?
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I've had doctors make up things as egregious as my height.
I had one doc I had only met remotely who entered a height into my online, shared record that was several inches shorter than I was...back when I was an 11-year-old child. It's been 25 years since I was that short.
I pressed them that they could at least have asked me how tall I am, or even consulted the previous entries by other doctors in their same system.
There wasn't even an attempt at an excuse. It was plain, simple negligence.
That doctor had also been insisting I needed to let him do an exploratory surgery, despite never even having had me come to the office in person, so I noped right out of there and started telling that story to everyone I thought might consider seeing him.