Adult Children by Stephen Beals for January 28, 2024

Indeeed so. Have to state to make the appt, restate when you arrive at the clinic, restate to the nurse, and then the doc. I asked him last time “Do you every really know before I physically come in why I am coming in?” His response “No, but I know you are thinking you had to repeat it over and over, but the office has to code it, they have to schedule based on severity, and the nurse needs to know so she knows whether to rush me or not.” I said “Well, couldn’t your team just communicate it to each other?” He said “In a perfect world, but in that perfect world I could spend more time with everyone, but the problem is insurance companies and PBMs, plus the increased case loads.”

Then there are the ones who can’t shut up about their symptoms.

Mr. Beals hit it on this one. It is irksome to have to tell my symptoms multiple people while waiting to be seen by the doctor. I got asked several times by various medical assistants and a nurse about my symptoms and finally asked the nurse if anyone had bothered to write what I said down in the chart. She got flustered, looked in the chart and read it for herself.

Sounds like when I go to my doctor.

This can’t be based upon current reality Penney, you actually got to see a doctor??

Hilarious cuz it’s true! Next time, let’s throw it back at them. – What brings you in today, besides a paycheck the intense desire to gather information – with no intention of sharing with anyone up the command chain?

I went to Aspen Dental with a toothache. They never addressed that at all, trying only to get me to buy thousands of dollars worth of dental implants.

Haaaaa!

I work in a medical office with computer charting. Sometimes with a new patient, what they told the doctor or the nurse isn’t there yet when they see me. Sometimes they tell me something different. Sometimes they remember something they didn’t tell the doctor. So many reasons to ask. It is an ENT office. I’ve seen people on the schedule for “sinus” when they have “tinnitus.” Totally different tests needed.

TRUTH!

All that’s true………….