Comments on: Not Heart Failure

By: CJL

CJL — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:53:20 +0000

I can’t tell you how many patients I’ve had who say they’ve had a heart attack (or several), and when I look back at the medical record, they’ve been seen in the ED for chest pain several times, and ruled out on every occasion.

Makes you wonder how much (and what) patients actually hear when you talk to them.

By: therapydoc

therapydoc — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:45:07 +0000

My husband is a family practitioner and he rants about this every single day (and never prescribes an antibiotic for me, naturally, and somehow I survive).

I wish he’d just blog
This one is great.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:57:14 +0000

Did you do a CAT scan of his brain because my uncle had a brain tumor and the only symptom was a persistent cough because the tumor triggered the cough reflex.

Just kidding

/not about the tumor, that was real, but the part of doing a CAT scan for everyone who has a cough

By: igloodoc

igloodoc — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:36:10 +0000

Umm… WC… better get your response when you are summoned to the carpeted section ’cause your PG’s are down and the idio… um… prescient googleDR customer complained in a detailed type written single spaced 4 pager
Better yet. Take Matt with you.

By: hashmd

hashmd — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:54:24 +0000

They will take only the portion of your conversation which will make you look like a complete and utter idiot, and tell EVERYONE within earshot. They will even go as far as say the chest X ray was positive for pneumonia!

I’ve had parents of siblings tell me their child was diagnosed with Strep throat, only to look at the record and see that Urgent Care did the test and had a negative Rapid Strep (and the confirmatory culture was not back yet).