torrilin replied to your post “oh ugh
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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2dvcUa4:torrilin replied to your post “oh ugh it’s that time of year again when my brain starts shutting…”
Yeah, that’s why I said it’s structural. It’s not the one doc, it’s the integration over every single contact ever. The software supports the structure, but you need the people using the software to follow through. Blech. Because a functional structure is very different from US default medical where all the managing and organizing is the patient’s job.
? All the doctors I saw that I mentinoed in that post were within the same practice. They all have no problem accessing my chart. They all spent half the visit updating my chart. They all knew fine well whatever I was taking. Which was why I was so bitter that the one NP was so blasé about my weight gain. Like, you KNOW that happened while I was on a medication that has that as a side effect, so why are you treating it as if I somehow did this to myself?
My problem is that I have to on my own find a new PCP who is taking new patients. I’m sure they’ll send my chart over, I’m not worried about that, but in my experience, it doesn’t matter how good my chart is.
My problem is that it’s hard for me to make phone calls, so having to go down a list of doctors and keep calling one after another after another until I find someone who’s accepting patients is going to not happen.
And for years, my doctors have handed me slips of paper with phone numbers on them: this is the specialist you need to see, this is the neurosomethingthother who can tell you if you have a condition, etcetera.
I don’t call those numbers. I don’t make phone calls. I can want to, sure, but it doesn’t happen.
So great record-keeping software is wonderful, but we have that. That’s not the problem that I have, and I’m confused how I seem to have conveyed somehow that impression. There’s no question of having my medical records properly stored or transmitted or whatever. I just need to find a doctor, and for someone who doesn’t make phone calls, that’s just literally not going to happen. I really do try, and there’s a lot of staring at the phone and tracing the number with my finger and wishing, but I can’t make myself do it and I haven’t yet figured out a) why or b) how to not have to do it but still have the thing happen, so.
I’m not worried about my medical chart. My doctors know what medications I’ve taken. They just don’t seem to give a shit that none of them have worked.
Yeah, that’s why I said it’s structural. It’s not the one doc, it’s the integration over every single contact ever. The software supports the structure, but you need the people using the software to follow through. Blech. Because a functional structure is very different from US default medical where all the managing and organizing is the patient’s job.
? All the doctors I saw that I mentinoed in that post were within the same practice. They all have no problem accessing my chart. They all spent half the visit updating my chart. They all knew fine well whatever I was taking. Which was why I was so bitter that the one NP was so blasé about my weight gain. Like, you KNOW that happened while I was on a medication that has that as a side effect, so why are you treating it as if I somehow did this to myself?
My problem is that I have to on my own find a new PCP who is taking new patients. I’m sure they’ll send my chart over, I’m not worried about that, but in my experience, it doesn’t matter how good my chart is.
My problem is that it’s hard for me to make phone calls, so having to go down a list of doctors and keep calling one after another after another until I find someone who’s accepting patients is going to not happen.
And for years, my doctors have handed me slips of paper with phone numbers on them: this is the specialist you need to see, this is the neurosomethingthother who can tell you if you have a condition, etcetera.
I don’t call those numbers. I don’t make phone calls. I can want to, sure, but it doesn’t happen.
So great record-keeping software is wonderful, but we have that. That’s not the problem that I have, and I’m confused how I seem to have conveyed somehow that impression. There’s no question of having my medical records properly stored or transmitted or whatever. I just need to find a doctor, and for someone who doesn’t make phone calls, that’s just literally not going to happen. I really do try, and there’s a lot of staring at the phone and tracing the number with my finger and wishing, but I can’t make myself do it and I haven’t yet figured out a) why or b) how to not have to do it but still have the thing happen, so.
I’m not worried about my medical chart. My doctors know what medications I’ve taken. They just don’t seem to give a shit that none of them have worked.
