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Why being a "bad" patient is a "good" thing
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 203235" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I have too much medical background and education to be a good patient. I fired a doctor once right in the middle of treating me in the hospital because he was incompetent. And since the idiot's failure to treat my acute renal failure properly.......well I came a leetle too close to death that time. I can think of several more times as well.</p><p> </p><p>I badger with questions, I read forms, I know my rights and I know how to bully to make sure I'm treated properly. </p><p> </p><p>If you have questions....ask. If you didn't understand the answer, ask again and tell them to spell it out to you in plain english. Don't sign a form unless you're positive of what exactly it is you're signing for....ie surgery, anesthetic, tests. If you don't want a procedure or treatment or test you have the right to say NO. If you have doubts get a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th opinion if you need to in order to find answers.</p><p> </p><p>I've had nurses try to give me medications that I'm allergic to while in hospital for failing to read the big red band I wore stating I was allergic to it. I've even had them give me food before tests that are NPO (nothing by mouth) which meaning nothing from midnight before the test until after test is performed.</p><p> </p><p>Most mistakes aren't deliberate or even out of stupidity. Nurses are over worked and over stressed. Docs, well they're as human as we are. And they have hundreds of patients and aren't going to remember one small maybe vital detail about you unless they see you so often they start thinking of you as family.</p><p> </p><p>Heck, last time I was in......during the heart attack.......I had to tell them that the cardiac diet wasn't good enough.....I have to also eat the kidney diet. Because they were so geared toward the heart no one was paying attention to the fact that I'm a kidney patient as well. And I still had to send food back to the kitchen and request something else.</p><p> </p><p>Stand up for yourself. </p><p> </p><p>Climbing down from the soapbox now. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 203235, member: 84"] I have too much medical background and education to be a good patient. I fired a doctor once right in the middle of treating me in the hospital because he was incompetent. And since the idiot's failure to treat my acute renal failure properly.......well I came a leetle too close to death that time. I can think of several more times as well. I badger with questions, I read forms, I know my rights and I know how to bully to make sure I'm treated properly. If you have questions....ask. If you didn't understand the answer, ask again and tell them to spell it out to you in plain english. Don't sign a form unless you're positive of what exactly it is you're signing for....ie surgery, anesthetic, tests. If you don't want a procedure or treatment or test you have the right to say NO. If you have doubts get a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th opinion if you need to in order to find answers. I've had nurses try to give me medications that I'm allergic to while in hospital for failing to read the big red band I wore stating I was allergic to it. I've even had them give me food before tests that are NPO (nothing by mouth) which meaning nothing from midnight before the test until after test is performed. Most mistakes aren't deliberate or even out of stupidity. Nurses are over worked and over stressed. Docs, well they're as human as we are. And they have hundreds of patients and aren't going to remember one small maybe vital detail about you unless they see you so often they start thinking of you as family. Heck, last time I was in......during the heart attack.......I had to tell them that the cardiac diet wasn't good enough.....I have to also eat the kidney diet. Because they were so geared toward the heart no one was paying attention to the fact that I'm a kidney patient as well. And I still had to send food back to the kitchen and request something else. Stand up for yourself. Climbing down from the soapbox now. :) [/QUOTE]
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