medical history
Apr. 4th, 2020 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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we were discussing our medical histories. Doctor Friend has access to his own medical chart through the software he uses to maintain his patients’ charts, but it hadn’t occurred to him to look at his own records until a couple of days ago.
“Literally everything I’ve ever said to a doctor is in there,” he said, marveling. “Looking at it, I was like, man this guy’s got a laundry-list of conditions!” But he doesn’t, he’s currently on no medication other than, like, heartburn meds, I think, something like that. “I guess it’d be unethical to clean it up myself but heck, every doctor I see doesn’t need to wade through the time I checked ‘back pain’ on a form once.” Which, probably, was a good perspective for him to take.
My bestie, his wife, was like “oh yes, I remember going to the GYN for the first time after having kids where the visit wasn’t about having kids, and on the form there was literally everything I’ve ever been prescribed including the time I got pinkeye medication for Kid 2, and the dr was like uhh is this still a problem, and I’m like no that was literally years ago and it was one time?”
“Ugh,” Dr said, “I can’t imagine– constantly having pinkeye!”
We all were grossed-out about that for a moment, and then BFF continued, “And also, it said that I had A History Of Premature Births, and I was so offended! A history! Listen, it happened twice!”
“Out of two,” I pointed out.
“A man might eat roast beef twice, and you wouldn’t say he was constantly eating roast beef,” she went on, with that cadence that suggested she was possibly adapting something she’d heard quoted. “I’ve had two premature births, I am not constantly giving birth prematurely! This is not a habit of mine, it just happened twice, that’s all!”
(Apparently it’s a Red Dwarf quote, the bit about the roast beef.)
(Both her kids are fine.)
we were discussing our medical histories. Doctor Friend has access to his own medical chart through the software he uses to maintain his patients’ charts, but it hadn’t occurred to him to look at his own records until a couple of days ago.
“Literally everything I’ve ever said to a doctor is in there,” he said, marveling. “Looking at it, I was like, man this guy’s got a laundry-list of conditions!” But he doesn’t, he’s currently on no medication other than, like, heartburn meds, I think, something like that. “I guess it’d be unethical to clean it up myself but heck, every doctor I see doesn’t need to wade through the time I checked ‘back pain’ on a form once.” Which, probably, was a good perspective for him to take.
My bestie, his wife, was like “oh yes, I remember going to the GYN for the first time after having kids where the visit wasn’t about having kids, and on the form there was literally everything I’ve ever been prescribed including the time I got pinkeye medication for Kid 2, and the dr was like uhh is this still a problem, and I’m like no that was literally years ago and it was one time?”
“Ugh,” Dr said, “I can’t imagine– constantly having pinkeye!”
We all were grossed-out about that for a moment, and then BFF continued, “And also, it said that I had A History Of Premature Births, and I was so offended! A history! Listen, it happened twice!”
“Out of two,” I pointed out.
“A man might eat roast beef twice, and you wouldn’t say he was constantly eating roast beef,” she went on, with that cadence that suggested she was possibly adapting something she’d heard quoted. “I’ve had two premature births, I am not constantly giving birth prematurely! This is not a habit of mine, it just happened twice, that’s all!”
(Apparently it’s a Red Dwarf quote, the bit about the roast beef.)
(Both her kids are fine.)
