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So Chantal’s c-diff is back? Is this a magical strain that isn’t contagious and comes and go when convenient?
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And this is why you don’t cry wolf to get attention or pain meds at the ER. Because when something is actually very wrong with you, nobody is going to believe you and will think you’re just wasting time as usual to get your fix. It’s called the ER because it’s an EMERGENCY room. For emergencies. Not the Free Candy Room For Fun Drugs.Quick clarification when I said last night that the ER may not take our gorl seriously.
Of course they won't send her home without seeing a doctor, but she will probably be put at the bottom of the priority list. You are categorized depending on your symptoms... 1 is top urgent, 4 is the bottom and everyone who comes after you and is put in the 1-3 category will see a doctor before you... that's why you can spend 12-24h waiting on a chair in the emergency waiting room in Canada.
If Chantal has something very serious but her file shows she comes every damn week, or (worse) two days in a row for two different things, the nurse who's job is to sort the non-urgent cases from the urgent ones may be influenced by this info and put Chantal as a 4 while she should have been higher on the priority list, thinking she is more a case of attention whoring than anything else.
Also, because the canadian health care system is paid from our taxes, doctors don't send everyone further testing for fun. X-Rays, scans etc. are given only if necessary so if the doc thinks Chantal is faking or exaggerating, he might just send her home without any real tests, telling her to come back if it gets worse.
I had a friend who had an history of IBS and was often showing up at the ER trying to get painkillers. One day she showed up with abdominal pain and very light vaginal bleeding. The doctor not only didn't send her for further testing but actually refused when she asked for a blood test and an ultrasound, and sent her home with yet another painkillers prescription.
Turned out a few days later, when she went back with massive bleeding, that she had an ectopic pregnancy. Pregnancy hormones weren't high enough to show on a pee test, but did show up on the blood one which the first doctor had refused.
She basically could have fucking died had her fallopian tube bursted out.
Anyway I hope what I'm saying makes sense cuz english is hard and it's even harder before my first cup of coffee.
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Glad someone said it! I saw the potatoes and had to remind myself that she’s an idiot whose main interaction with potatoes comes via them being a fried and salted side to a cheeseburger.People talking about beef and peanut butter, I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what kind of lunatic refrigerates potatoes.
Here is a doctor who told his patient she was fat and he faced board discipline.Are doctors not allowed to say- "holy shit, your fat as fuck and are going to lose a limb and then quickly rot away both internally and externally and continue to be a burden on the healthcare system and your family? How do you think they are going to cremate or bury you? You dont fit!"
I mean, that would be my pitch. Im not even 200 lbs and my doctor tells me that i should try to lose 15 lbs. I cannot for the love of me, fathom that these doctors do not explain to her how grim her situation is becoming.
Here is a doctor who told his patient she was fat and he faced board discipline.
Ehhh the article mentions the woman wasn’t complaining about being told she was fat, she was complaining that the doctor said that if her husband died, no man would want her because she was fat, except maybe (horrifically!) a black guy.Here is a doctor who told his patient she was fat and he faced board discipline.
I dunno.... once you try a frozen Snickers, you can never go back.Even though the bunny is shit chocolate....YOU NEVER REFRIGERATE CHOCOLATE!!!!!
Agreed. Clotso is a woman with needs (special?) so some lucky personage needs to take one for the team and slip her a length. Only once just to sort her out.This bitch's need for attention is in overdrive.
Dear God someone lie and tell the heifer she is special already.
Pathetic to be that damn needy at her age.
No one’s gonna volunteer to drop a log in that toilet, mateAgreed. Clotso is a woman with needs (special?) so some lucky personage needs to take one for the team and slip her a length. Only once just to sort her out.
She would be unbearably full of herself but reinvigorated afterwards which means loads of fun new material for us to cogitate upon.
Call me optimistic but it could works wonders for all.
But it cannot be Peetz or Joe or that other cretin Mike.
As an RN, I can tell you that while doctors do not use that kind of language, they absolutely do tell them these things, just in a professional way and using facts to explain. Patient teaching is extremely important, especially in The USA, where there are insurance companies, medicare, and Medicaid that require documentation of every little thing, and a gigantic book of codes with which to do it, in addition to handwritten notations if they want to get paid. Insurance companies don't want to pay for things that could be preventable, and fight like he'll to find reasons not to pay out. Malpractice can be claimed as well if a patient suffered from something that could have been prevented and it was not documented that the patient was not informed. The saying is: Not documented, not done.Depends on the country but the short answer is no. And this is why population health is so shite overall, we need to go back to Doctors being allowed to ridicule, hurt feelings and shaming.
You have to be cruel to be kind. But the true cruelty is linked putting feels before reals.
I think given my career choice and previous experience I would not.
I'm not going to power level or derail further but I am more aware than you are of what I have or have not seen in my working life, ta very much.
That's fine, but the world and medicine extends past the USA.As an RN, I can tell you that while doctors do not use that kind of language, they absolutely do tell them these things, just in a professional way and using facts to explain. Patient teaching is extremely important, especially in The USA, where there are insurance companies, medicare, and Medicaid that require documentation of every little thing, and a gigantic book of codes with which to do it, in addition to handwritten notations if they want to get paid. Insurance companies don't want to pay for things that could be preventable, and fight like he'll to find reasons not to pay out. Malpractice can be claimed as well if a patient suffered from something that could have been prevented and it was not documented that the patient was not informed. The saying is: Not documented, not done.
The problem in cases like Chantal's is non compliance, basically they choose not to listen. I don't know about Canada, but here doctors can and do " fire" patients, telling them not to come back because they cannot help those who don't help themselves, and their time is better spent on people who listen and at the very least try. Deathfats run to the ER because other doctors are tired of their shit, they don't want to hear about the condition causing ALL of their problems and how to fix or manage it. They know already, trust me, they know! They ignore medical issues due to laziness and/or denial, then run to the ER because they want a quick fix of the critical issue. The ER has to treat, and they are there to treat critical issue, stabilize the patient, and send them on their way with instructions that always includes following up with specialist an a primary care physician.
Here is a doctor who told his patient she was fat and he faced board discipline.
Well, I didn't think I'd get doxed like this.Thanks, that was an awesome read. I wonder what the doctor’s KF username is?
You're certainly one to talk.Ahh yes, as an Esteemed Medical Expert, lettered with numerous titles, awards and degrees from prestigious academic and research institutions worldwide: here you are, starting little bitch slap fights with strangers about what you have and haven't heard in "muh career" on a cyberbullying message board re: a 450lb Canadian woman you have never and will never meet. Mad At The Internet
On point. TMI but 20 years ago when I started as a CNA/CMA in HS, I had to care for only 1 deathfat in their 40s in a rural 200 bed facility. I know a youngin' who does the same job at the same age in the same facility, and the deathfat in their 40s count has risen to 10. More and more, deathfats on medicaid are just being slapped into the nearest skilled nursing facility that opens up, be it primarily elderly people or not, and given a good Doc Gnome style diet and a big, huge, massive, rolling dose of shame. Medicaid often does not cover bariatric surgeries, so we're looking at the old fashioned circus freak treatment, no cushy in-home assistance forever for that SES of deathfat. In Canada, I assume the beautiful First Nations/Inuit tradition of senicide on a nice ice floe is being physician-recommended for Chantal because she refuses to do anything else to stop being such a national fucking burden.