Can't seem to get rid of these useless resident doctors. They come and ask me questions that if they spent any time reading my reports they would know the answer. Then they try to find things wrong with me so they can request useless tests that tell us what we already know. They're trying to make a name for themselves so they got their medical book and they're digging for something to do.
Today they wanted to do a chest X-ray to see what's going on with my lungs. Then they wanted more blood work. Not to mention they wanted to take my kidney bandage off and just replace it with another bandage. They wanted to see how the infection is on my right kidney tube. First of all this isn't a paper cut. It's a hole in my body going all the way into my kidney. There's protocol and procedures for replacing these bandages. You need sterile gloves and 3-4 diff cleaning and disinfecting agents every time you replace one. They were going to treat it like a regular bandage. Peel the old one off and stick on the new one. I don't think so.
I gotta thank my fiancé on this one. I was in the restroom and all I hear is my fiancé giving them an earful about how this kind of incompetence landed me in the hospital for 10 days. So when I came out I told them they are not touching me until they talk to my Dr. If my Dr said its Ok then it's ok. If not then no. I told them not to come back until they get their facts straight and they talk to my Dr. So what happens, I call my Dr as soon as they leave and my Dr says no matter what they want to do I'm getting chemo as planned and as written in a report which these idiots haven't read. So really they are wasting their time. Half hour later the useless Dr comes to tell me she talked to my Dr and we're not doing any of the tests. Well duh.
So my chemo started as planned and "knock on wood" everything is ok.
My Dr knows I have a cough and a infection. That's why I'm on antibiotics. These residents don't know enough and don't care. Based on my experience I'm scared of what the future holds. These are next generations doctors.
Thank God for El! She is definitely someone I wouldn' wanna piss off. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's so disappointing that you even have to deal with any of this! Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, Nima what do you mean? I’m a sweetheart!! No??? lol
ReplyDeleteSecond, on the other hand you can’t really get that upset. You rather have people double and triple checking things but the Residents and others to be careful what they say to the patient because they can freak the patient out if they patient isn’t like us and doesn’t know to question everything. The problem is that if we were the typical patients and heard that now they need to run this test and run that test we would think there is other things going on and something is really wrong!! They really do need to double and triple check before they open their mouth – there are a lot of pros to being a USC or UCLA hospital but the con is that you have people who are trying to learn so you have to take the good with the bad.
This is better than a regular hospital where you don’t get any attention at all! Trust me I have experience with those too!!! No attention is much worse!