Re: lack of understanding in some future healthcare providers

[Guest guest]

Interesting. Sure is my kind of med school. I'd LOVE that kind of

interaction! That one SHOULD be an anesthesiologist...from the ones I've

met they rank as the biggest group of doctor jerks I've met. And usually

rude too....

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Broaders

STOP THE PAIN!

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chris@...

[Guest guest]

Be afraid, be very afraid------------------------------------------

[Guest guest]

, I hear what your saying. In my adventures trying to get diagnosed and

taken care of I had 17 hospital visits in 7 months--I was told many things: You

have chronic pain, live with it. The x-rays show nothing must be stress or

anxiety. You are making this up in your head. I actually had a doctor FIRE me

for getting a second opinion. Then, I found a doctor who said he was in over

his head and sent me to the University of Chicago where it took them 2 minutes

to tell me I had abdominal adhesions and scheduled me for surgery. The relief

lasted about a month, and now I have more adhesions. But, I found a great pain

specialist who put pain control in my hands, God Bless him. I am not pain free

but it lingers at about a 3. This is a chronic condition and in all likelihood

I will have to have more surgery for a bowel obstruction somewhere down the

line. Which will cause more adhesions, but at least someone finally HEARD me

and found a way to treat it. What a pain in the butt.

Herring wrote:Sorry, Margaret, but this kind of

thinking just makes me ill--especiaily so early in the day!

My mom was 83 and suffered with pain in her left hip for @ 3 months when the doc

asked my brother if he ought to do an MRI--ASKED MY BROTHER!!!!! My brother

basicaly asked him what he was waiting for????? THe MRI indicated the hip was

broken but not dislocated. She had been walking on a fractured hip for 3 months

with nothing but Anaprox for her pain'! Not a thing showed up on the X Ray so

this Einstein did nothing to look further or to help her with her pain. Still--

next broken bone, all he wanted to prescribe for her was Darvocette--for a

broken femur!

What is the world coming ot when all an elderly eprson can get for a broken bone

is Darvocette or an NSAID???? And to deny meds for anxiety--no wonder little

old ldies are so anxious when no one wants to help them with what is bothering

them??

Sorry. Just had to vent. I spose I'm thinking about being one of those little

old ladies in the not too distant future.

Susam