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| A month ago I fell off my horse at a barrel race. I thought maybe I had broken ribs. I go to the doctor and she insured me that they was not broke I was not in enough pain. But I had a tear in my rotor cuff. Yet she took x-rays of my ribs and not my rotor cuff. I went back yesterday for my check up at 30 days like she wanted and I say my good doctor and while I was there she ran some other tests I needed and told me that my rotor cuff was not tore I had injured a muscle in my shoulder. So I get online today to read my lab results and I see my x rays notes are posted from the last visit and it says that I broke my 5th rib and that I needed to be called to tell me not to go back to work. Yet I was never notified and read this after I have been back to work for three weeks.
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Location: Georgia | I would be upset, no joke, I would definitely call the doctor and make sure they realize that they made a mistake.
Edited to add, I was bucked off once, went to my doctor, was told ribs weren't broken (no xrays, just her assessment, based on where pain was etc.) A month later, after being tired of living off of motrin, I went to our family chiropractor, I had dislocated my ribs. He fixed me up and showed me exercises to strengthen the muscles to help keep everything together. People can say what they want but my chiro is my go to man lol
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| How can you go online and review your medical records?
In Alberta if we have X-rays, any lab work, DI, a copy always goes to our family/regular physician and it is their responsibility to review everything that floats across their desk and notify us.
We cannot go on and review our medical records, I work as a nurse, and we have very strict, liscencine loosing, firing penalties if we review our own records, a doctor has to review all records with the client.
To answer your question, to be mad, I would first find out the protocols, then figure out who I am to be mad at.
Then I would look at will it change things? And is it worth the extra stress of reporting the doctor. | |
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Location: The South | cheryl makofka - 2014-10-02 1:48 AM How can you go online and review your medical records? In Alberta if we have X-rays, any lab work, DI, a copy always goes to our family/regular physician and it is their responsibility to review everything that floats across their desk and notify us. We cannot go on and review our medical records, I work as a nurse, and we have very strict, liscencine loosing, firing penalties if we review our own records, a doctor has to review all records with the client. To answer your question, to be mad, I would first find out the protocols, then figure out who I am to be mad at. Then I would look at will it change things? And is it worth the extra stress of reporting the doctor.
They just started doing online stuff at the university in my state. I can go online and read all of my lab results and the radiologist's readings from any X-rays, CT scans, etc. it's pretty cool.
To the OP, yes I would be mad and I'd mention it at your next visit. Don't expect flowers and a card, but maybe you'll get a verbal apology. I hope you're feeling better, taking a spill is no fun. | |
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Location: USA | cheryl makofka - 2014-10-02 1:48 AM
How can you go online and review your medical records?
In Alberta if we have X-rays, any lab work, DI, a copy always goes to our family/regular physician and it is their responsibility to review everything that floats across their desk and notify us.
We cannot go on and review our medical records, I work as a nurse, and we have very strict, liscencine loosing, firing penalties if we review our own records, a doctor has to review all records with the client.
To answer your question, to be mad, I would first find out the protocols, then figure out who I am to be mad at.
Then I would look at will it change things? And is it worth the extra stress of reporting the doctor.
With obamacare pts have access to their results now online. Also when they're discharged, whether from ER or inpatient, they're sent home with a packet of info that states everything that was done and all test results. | |
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| One of the hospitals here has it to where you can go online and view everything too.
As far as the OP - YES, I would be mad but it probably wouldn't do any good! | |
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Location: Always on call..... | Well I have a unique perspective on this being the doctor on the other end of this exact scenario. I had a patient who had fallen and came in with rib pain. I xrayed their ribs and couldn't see a fracture. Told them it was a contusion. The next day the radiology report came through stating a rib fracture and I forgot to call the patient. A month later the patient is back for something else and "oh btw my rib still hurts". I pull up the radiology report, see the fracture and immediately realize I never contacted them. The patient was understandably a bit upset but seemed to accept my profuse apologies.
I felt horrible. The only real silver lining is that rib fractures aren't really treated with anything accept conservative care - anti inflammatories, ice, etc. The only time they are surgically treated is if they cause a collapsed lung.
I don't have much of a defense, only that there is an INCREDIBLE amount of information (labs, radiology reports, consults from specialists, ER reports,hospital records) that comes across a primary care doctors desk every day. I promise you if something is critical or needs immediate follow up it does not get overlooked.
I also just started this job and don't have a designated nurse yet. I have several different nurses rotating through helping me. That does make it harder to get a consistent flow of info coming in and how it is followed up on.
It sounds like in your case, your doctor saw the report and noted you were to be called. Whoever is responsible for calling patients with results in that clinic is probably who dropped the ball.
I would bring it up to the doctors office - either the dr or the office managers so they know a mistake happened and can be more diligent in the future. | |
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| "Yet I was never notified and read this after I have been back to work for three weeks."
Well, if you felt okay enough to return to work, what difference does it make now?
If you felt bad enough that you didn't feel you could work, you could've just called out of work. And if they said they needed a doctor's note for you to do that, you could've gotten one from the Dr's office at the time. | |
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Location: Florida.. | cheryl makofka - 2014-10-02 2:48 AM How can you go online and review your medical records? In Alberta if we have X-rays, any lab work, DI, a copy always goes to our family/regular physician and it is their responsibility to review everything that floats across their desk and notify us. We cannot go on and review our medical records, I work as a nurse, and we have very strict, liscencine loosing, firing penalties if we review our own records, a doctor has to review all records with the client. To answer your question, to be mad, I would first find out the protocols, then figure out who I am to be mad at. Then I would look at will it change things? And is it worth the extra stress of reporting the doctor.
Mayo Clinic you can as well.. you can view blood work, lab results, the drs final reports after you go see him.. and also the ct scan final reports after the dr visit. its all password and login | |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | mudslinger - 2014-10-01 6:32 PM
A month ago I fell off my horse at a barrel race. I thought maybe I had broken ribs. I go to the doctor and she insured me that they was not broke I was not in enough pain. But I had a tear in my rotor cuff. Yet she took x-rays of my ribs and not my rotor cuff. I went back yesterday for my check up at 30 days like she wanted and I say my good doctor and while I was there she ran some other tests I needed and told me that my rotor cuff was not tore I had injured a muscle in my shoulder. So I get online today to read my lab results and I see my x rays notes are posted from the last visit and it says that I broke my 5th rib and that I needed to be called to tell me not to go back to work. Yet I was never notified and read this after I have been back to work for three weeks.
Um, but that is gross negligence on the Dr part, which is a reportable crime to the state medical board. | |
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Location: The edge of no where | SuckerForHorses - 2014-10-02 8:19 AM "Yet I was never notified and read this after I have been back to work for three weeks." Well, if you felt okay enough to return to work, what difference does it make now? If you felt bad enough that you didn't feel you could work, you could've just called out of work. And if they said they needed a doctor's note for you to do that, you could've gotten one from the Dr's office at the time.
^^This.... Pretty sure there isn't much they can do for a broken rib. I'd let it go. | |
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Location: OH. IO | I would say a doctor should be held to higher standards as he is a professional funny how people judge some but make excuses for others | |
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Location: Georgia | I am a nurse. I don't think its gross negligence on the part of the doctor but I am sure that someone in their office is supposed to keep up with results and notify patients. I think that they need to be made aware that there is something wrong with that process. Just because it was not a catastrophic injury doesn't mean it is ok. You wouldn't keep going to a business that took your money and didn't make good on what they were supposed to do. Your doctor's office is no different. I am glad that you weren't seriously harmed but truly that doesn't make it ok. This actually happens all the time in healthcare and it is a huge problem. We have no way of knowing what would have happened if you did have a serious problem, they might not have followed up on that either. If nothing else complain because you might save someone else's life! | |
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| SuckerForHorses - 2014-10-02 8:19 AM
"Yet I was never notified and read this after I have been back to work for three weeks."
Well, if you felt okay enough to return to work, what difference does it make now?
If you felt bad enough that you didn't feel you could work, you could've just called out of work. And if they said they needed a doctor's note for you to do that, you could've gotten one from the Dr's office at the time.
It makes a huge difference if your job is physicall demanding and you have a high pain threshold like my dad does. If the Dr. tells him he's ok, then he's going to work even if he feels bad. He mistakenly thinks the doctor knows more than him since they went to school to learn how to diagnose and treat people. He comes from a time in which if you could breathe and function then you worked. He grew up in the depression.
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| I'm going to side with the Dr., with this new insurance and health care stuff we are dealing with physician's are having to see more and more people per day in order to make enough money to pay staff. When your physician see 50 people a day and that is in the clinic not counting the hospital x 5 days a week that is 250 people a week. Once they see these people a report of some type will come a cross their desk about that person that's at least 250 papers they will have to read. When the MD has time to read reports he/she may be really tired, between patient's ( and God forbid someone have to wait in the reception more than 10 mins these days) trying to get home so they can have family time or many other things. I am sure your MD did not do this on purpose. NO ONE is going to go to school 8-10 years pay 100k for school then half way do the job on purpose. Cut a person some slack and understand they most likely did not mean to not follow up with you. | |
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Location: Northeast Nebraska | Dreamingofcans - 2014-10-02 2:09 AM cheryl makofka - 2014-10-02 1:48 AM How can you go online and review your medical records? In Alberta if we have X-rays, any lab work, DI, a copy always goes to our family/regular physician and it is their responsibility to review everything that floats across their desk and notify us. We cannot go on and review our medical records, I work as a nurse, and we have very strict, liscencine loosing, firing penalties if we review our own records, a doctor has to review all records with the client. To answer your question, to be mad, I would first find out the protocols, then figure out who I am to be mad at. Then I would look at will it change things? And is it worth the extra stress of reporting the doctor. With obamacare pts have access to their results now online. Also when they're discharged, whether from ER or inpatient, they're sent home with a packet of info that states everything that was done and all test results.
BS My husband got discharged after a week in the hospital with a mrsa urinary tract infection (he has kidney disease) with nothing more than a page telling him to resume his regular meds. Including the potassium, even though right up to the day of discharge they were giving him medication to lower his dangerously high potassium level. I could tell you stories that would curl your hair. That's why I call them the keystone kops in scrubs. Top notch "infection control procedures" my ass. What happened in TX with the obola patient was guaranteed and why I am ENRAGED at this obola regime and the entire fucking federal government. | |
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Location: Florida.. | GoGaited - 2014-10-02 8:42 PM Dreamingofcans - 2014-10-02 2:09 AM cheryl makofka - 2014-10-02 1:48 AM How can you go online and review your medical records? In Alberta if we have X-rays, any lab work, DI, a copy always goes to our family/regular physician and it is their responsibility to review everything that floats across their desk and notify us. We cannot go on and review our medical records, I work as a nurse, and we have very strict, liscencine loosing, firing penalties if we review our own records, a doctor has to review all records with the client. To answer your question, to be mad, I would first find out the protocols, then figure out who I am to be mad at. Then I would look at will it change things? And is it worth the extra stress of reporting the doctor. With obamacare pts have access to their results now online. Also when they're discharged, whether from ER or inpatient, they're sent home with a packet of info that states everything that was done and all test results.
I dont think it has anything to do with obamacare..
MY dad doesnt have Obamacare and he goes to mayo clinic and has access to his records.. online thru a patient account.. | |
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| That is very cool that you can look up medical records.
Now why can't they do that with horse records
Since you can access medical records, it could be argued that by giving you the password the doctor has notified you of your results, and plan of care, as you can look it up.
I can see this will be more of the norm, the doctors will tell clients to review their records then book an appointment to discuss. This will actually allow doctors to have more time to care for clients, and empower clients to be active in their own health care.
Also we only know one side, the doctor could have mentioned something on the way out to book an appointment in a few days to review, reassess, or follow up with your own family physician for results.
To the op if you are concerned report the doctor, they will do an internal review and discipline if necessary | |
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