Foggy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:10 pm
I have had a long, terrible, annoying day. At 3:30 my doctor said if I was going to be combative, blah blah blah.
Oh man.
Today I went to my Duke Health website and read the notes the asshole wrote on my medical chart. There were outright lies. He made me sound like a dementia patient.
Patient was very argumentative today and did not know he was here and he did not understand why I ordered labs.
Golly, if I didn't know I was there, maybe you should have called my wife or an Uber to come get me. He meant to say that I didn't know WHY I was there, but I certainly did ask him "Why am I here today? What are you treating, now that my diabetes and blood pressure are under control?" He never did answer. But his typo makes it look like I was gazing around the room with the thousand-yard stare.
Patient states that he has not smoked in a couple years.
No, asshole, you're supposed to know I quit THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.
States other than a couple drinks. Does not drink alcohol.
Per hour? Per day? Per week? I told him "a couple of drinks per YEAR"
Foot care discussed.
He forgotted that he forfeited any discussion of my feet, because he was too cowardly to prescribe the Tramadol I take, and I have to pay a specialist (which means a $50 copay twice a year) to get the medication for my feet, so I refuse to discuss my foot care with him. I have a foot care doctor. No, he's simply lying when he says we discussed my foot care.
And ol' Wifehorn won't let me just drop it now, because we're applying for long term care insurance in January, and if I get turned down because I'm argumentative with doctors and don't know where I am, I'm going to be turned down for dementia issues, and if one insurance company turns me down, none of them will issue a policy, so I have to get this fixed.
After a day on the phone with Patient Resolution and the health administrator, here's where we are:
1) I will write a totally clean, neutral version of what he should have written. I will not crab about the 13 blood tests, it will just say "patient declined any labs". I won't call him a fucking liar about my foot care, it will just omit foot care anything. I will make it so non-insulting he shouldn't refuse to substitute it for what he wrote.
2. If he agrees and edits his notes, it's over. I have a new doctor already.
3. If he disagrees, I will escalate through the Duke Health system no matter what it takes, and I will also file a complaint with Medicare (CMS) that will go on his permanent record, because I am going to do whatever it takes to make sure my medical records don't have any references to me having dementia of any kind. And if Medicare finds out he ordered blood tests 13 times in a row, every visit for four solid years, they may have some questions of their own.
Questions? OK, you in the back in the muu-muu or whatever that thing is.
No, ma'am. Following the birther movement wasn't dementia, it was a hobby.
Maybe
now it looks a little like dementia.
Oh man, I'm getting combative again.
Anyway, Inditement of what's-his-name will wait until mañana. I've had a few crappy days in a row, and I'm on a break.
Edit: Joe Biden meant, no one fucks with the Bryans. Another slip-up, I'm letting him off for this one.