tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592914674512042286.post310272840296480487..comments2023-08-07T09:30:31.996+01:00Comments on the chronic caper: Day 26: “I want to change THIS about healthcare...”Libhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111898320049663116noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592914674512042286.post-51072094247065743442012-12-21T18:03:08.559+00:002012-12-21T18:03:08.559+00:00All of my doctors' offices have electronic rec...All of my doctors' offices have electronic records, but I opted out. I also have visited many specialists for my endometriosis. The reason I opted out is because some of the doctors I went to were terrible. One kept writing down the wrong symptoms and claimed that I **had** to be having them (I don't bleed heavily, but he was insisting that all girls with endo bleed excessively). He also added other symptoms I did not have, and he mixed me up with his IVF patients a lot (I never had IVF but he claimed I did because he noted it in his records. Ah!). He wrote I was difficult basically because I dared to correct him. If a doctor writes something wrong or offensive in your electronic records and other doctors read it you'll have a difficult time getting it cleared up. And sometimes you can' get it cleared up so your stuck with whatever notes your previous doctor wrote. This can affect how a doctor diagnoses and treats you later. I will never participate in electronic records. I'd rather just take hard copies with me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592914674512042286.post-12094531166497541342012-11-27T11:32:43.152+00:002012-11-27T11:32:43.152+00:00Isn't it ridiculous? And then women get critic...Isn't it ridiculous? And then women get criticised for putting their career first only to find out at 35 that they can't have kids. Not that fertility tests are foolproof, but I think it would be good for women to know in advance whether or not conceiving may be difficult for them so they can plan their life accordingly... maybe start trying for kids a bit before they had planned on doing it before.Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02111898320049663116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592914674512042286.post-90211156154398082292012-11-27T04:31:49.515+00:002012-11-27T04:31:49.515+00:00I have often wondered why they don't have elec...I have often wondered why they don't have electronic records- seems so much easier.<br /><br />As for the fertility thing, this drives me nuts. As a 16yo I questioned my doctor and asked for some tests to be done. She said not to worry about it until I was ready to try for kids. This drives me nuts as, if I know it is going to take me a while to have kids, I will start earlier. To this day, even as a married woman, I do not know and am too embarrassed to ask for tests to be done when I am not planning on kids atm. Married, single, young or old, surely this is information you should be able to find out, even if it is just to put your mind at ease? Crazy ;sSamarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07956774036700629279noreply@blogger.com