Oh boy, I'm not going to jump into this swamp as I've worked hard to get out of it starting in the 1980's,, hence the years of supplements. These save me as far as I'm concerned and my own good sense. The medical world and government (today especially) are the same. My dear mother was put thru cancer treatments maybe 20 yrs ago and I have wondered for years if she really had cancer and it was a case of bleeding hems. She's gone now but oh that poor woman and all the drugs and radiation. Can't help think this, she didn't have a critical thinking advocate at that time.
I don't know how legit this is (and I may have mentioned it before) but I had an LPN as my care provider at UVA Urology. I bet I had a dozen appointments with her. The time was always billed under the name of an MD who I never met.
That is very common now since doctors are in short supply. I've had a PA for the past 6 or 7 years who is the best "doctor" I've ever had. She also bills under the doctor's "group practice" name.
Interesting. But this invoice states a specific MD as being the care provider, not just the practice in general. Perhaps it's a distinction without a difference.
Both times I've been admitted to the hospital for heart problems, I've been asked if I'm in pain. Both times I've said no. Both times I've been told that I'm probably in pain....wink-wink, nod-nod. I assume that, being a woman (and we know that women's heart complaints aren't taken as seriously as men's), I would have been sent home and told to see a cardiologist unless I was "in pain". I wouldn't have received the tests I needed to uncover my heart problems and the next time I came in I would have REALLY been in pain...or dead.
You should probably report her to a superior for the HIPAA violation. She could be just as careless with YOUR info.
Women are "cross-wired" @Mary Robi . They are less likely to feel pain at the site of injury (called Referred Pain). Gall bladder issues for women often exhibit as pain in the upper back or shoulders, and cardiac pain sometimes shows up as neck pain or a head ache. Ladies, be aware of this and if you should experience unusual pain that you haven't felt before, take note of it. There was an 90-year-old woman who presented to the ER here with a splitting headache. They worked her up for migraines and tumors and a number of other things until her daughter said, "the last time this happened, she had a heart attack." Sure enough, when they started looking in that direction, she had had a massive infarct. She survived, but probably wouldn't have had her daughter not pointed the docs in the right direction.
Since this is a medical thread, what do you find more acceptable for use in describing male anatomy to make a point? Testicles, balls, cojones, or family jewels? I must point out I used what is commonly heard by English speakers, cajones which means drawers. Cojones means testicles. I wasn't purposely trying to camouflage a "vulgar" word by misspelling it. I do not consider such a word, vulgar. Growing up in a multilingual ranch family, I always heard cojones. It was an honest mistake and now let me now correct that grievous error, so my reputation of saying what I mean using the words I do in public, (what I use or don't use in private is not of concern in a public forum) will be restored. I have never seen that nurse again because if I do, I will be posting from jail because I will kick his cojones up so high he will think they are swollen tonsils.
I seldom talk about testicles so basically I don't care. I'm also not a pearl-clutcher so an occasional expletive does not make me feel faint. Just be yourself; I'm sure @Ken Anderson will reign us in if he feels we need to clean up our acts.
Medical Errors and Cause of Deaths -- I started reading this type of info many yrs ago. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/...d=20220825Z1_c_r&mid=DM1237868&rid=1585829763 STORY AT-A-GLANCE In 2013, Americans spent more on health care than Japan, Germany, France, China, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined. At the time, the U.S. ranked last in terms of quality of care among industrialized nations. Little has changed since then. If anything, conventional medicine has only gotten more dangerous over time In 2021, The Commonwealth Fund’s international health care performance report ranked the U.S. dead last out of 11 industrial nations yet again, despite spending more of its GDP (18% as of 2019) on health care than any other nation A 2013 review of U.S. health care expenses revealed that 30 cents of every dollar spent on medical care was being wasted on unnecessary services, inefficient delivery of care, excess administrative costs, overinflated prices, prevention failures and fraud. A follow-up investigation in 2019 found the annual waste of health care funds had risen anywhere from $10 billion to $185 billion since 2013, and now accounts for one-quarter of all health care spending In 1998, researchers concluded that properly prescribed and correctly taken pharmaceutical drugs were the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. Since then, several investigations have concluded conventional medicine in general, and medical errors in particular, are among the top leading causes of death in the U.S. In 2016, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts calculated that more than 250,000 patients died each year from medical errors, making it the third leading cause of death
Oh yeah... and you'll have to let us help name the Category. And have a ruling on @Faye Fox 's use of "cajones." Here are a few suggestions: 1. Playin' Ball 2. Do you have what it takes 3. My ex wife put them in a jar etc.