Guest guest Posted October 30, 2004 Report Share Posted October 30, 2004 Dear Starris, I can't answer that question even if I was a internist or surgeon. But sometimes the health care advise we hear being given to our friends and loved ones does sound like it doesn't make any sense except unless we call that office and ask how much it costs to have a thyroid removed. What is the answer to the question of if she is taking any psychiatric drugs that might negatively affect her cognitive function. It doesn't make sense that she would get angry at a friend that takes time to go with her to the doctor and is asking questions on her behalf trying to help her, does it? Have you asked what other drugs she is taking? Have you looked up the drug she has told you she is taking to help research if cognifive and memory dysfuction are side effects? Having fancy insurance can be hazadardous to your goal if you want to be buried with all your body parts. And be careful, when patients have friends/family that start asking too many questions, if no one has Medical Power of Attorney, when the time comes for the surgery, you might not even be allowed to visit her in the hospital, let alone get copies of her medical records to help her have documentation of what was done to her. She's just the kind of patient a doctor dreams of. Not only does she not ask questions about her own health care, she prevents a friend from asking them on her behalf I'd really be very curious to know if she's on a mind controlling selective serotonin reinuptake inhinibitor and if so, which one(s). I'm currently an advocate for a brain injured man with severe tennitis and hearing loss. 4 years of many, many doctors and Alabama Dept. of Rehab. Services that provide hearing aides and no one helped him with the hearing aides. The 1st opinion Audiologist advised that he have surgery to have one of the ossicles repaired that he "thought' might have been broken during the 17 foot fall from atop pallates when falling asleep standing up while medicated with an psychiatrists' drug that causes drowsinesss that caused the 1st brain injury (2nd was falling out of the hospital bed while hospitlaized for the `1st.) When I read the report that was sent to me because he signed the Authorization to Release Medical Information (but not Medical Power of Attorney) he says he's going to do a tympanectomy. He didn't tell me he was going to remove the eardrum. Now can you tell me how someone is going to hear better without their eardrum? Hearing aides aren't covered by Medicare/Medicaide for the nerve condiction loss but Medicaide covers the surgery. He didn't bother to tell me where we could get funding for the hearing aids, just that Medicaide didn't cover it. Now you tell me, what makes sense, get the hearing aides that he must have to see if it will help with the nerve conduction loss first or do the invasive expensive surgery first? Everyone needs a friend/loved one to be their advocate and help them make informed consent decisions and to be there when they are under anethesia and at the total mercy of the busy, stressed out health care providers. Starris Saturday, October 30, 2004 3:15 PM Re: Health, Cancer, Documentation of Health Care Visits and Information, Tx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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