I’m not quite sure what to make of today. Woke to a snow-dusted, sunny world when it ought to have been mild and grey: “We seem to have lost focus on our forecast last night,” said the sweet little man on TV it’s impossible to hate.
I stood watching snow lumps thaw and slide gracefully down the side of the car, to fall with a plop! in the gutter.
Next door’s black character cat came out, spat, and went back inside again. That’s a cat litter tray that’s going to get an extra heavy load today, I reckon.
And then, after an early lunch, to the doctor’s.
I’m really not sure what to make of that.
He’s been going over all my past records to familiarise himself with my case, and that’s gratifying. Except that it seems all the paper work relating to my history of heart problems has disappeared. A great mystery, to him and to me. He didn’t say anything in agreement with my suggestion that some data entry clerk had picked up that part of the paper file, groaned, looked over his or her shoulder, and junked the lot rather than laboriously code it all up. Didn’t say he agreed but didn’t say he didn’t, either.
So, the upshot of it is that he wants to re-build the history under his own close supervision, starting with an echocardiogram at the local hospital.
Hey ho.
I never could get completely used to that feeling of déjà vu, but I feel that a new examination and classification can only be to my advantage.
Meantime, the leg problem has to look after itself. If it’s caused by the heart condition then one course of treatment is called for. If there is no heart condition then an entirely different one is needed.
When it comes down to it, I think I’m right. There’s nothing to be said but ‘hey ho’.
Your doctor is certainly thorough.As you say it can only be to your advantage.
your idea of junking vs. coding, I’d laughed.
Don’t they want some base line to look at?
John, I’m very glad your doc is so sedulous. You can only benefit from re-referral, as there are so many new approaches opening up in cardiovascular treatments all the time.
I hope, presuming the vanished documents are in the GP’s domain, your hospital consultant (if you have one) can trace your hospital records. But anyway, I’ll bet you can give a much better historical account than most, and that will suffice.
And sometimes it’s best to start over, with no preconceived notions. Either a coding clerk dumped things, or there was a database corruption along the way and it was easier simply to clear the errant data than to reconstruct that portion of the database–or report the error.
Indeed, Wendy. Who wants to deal with reporting errors or rebuilding portions of the database. Far better to start over. I think you have gotten yourself a careful and conscientious doctor. Yay!!! Best Wishes, John!!!
Hugs from chilly Corea, ~ Sil
What frustration. Is there no way to track it all down?