 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | [quote=UncleVern]Once I got past one nurse who was not passing my messages to the doctor because she thought I was some kind of nut...[/quote]
Well, you'll have to admit that she wasn't wrong! However, she erred in not understanding that even nuts need medical treatment from time to time...
In some Docs' offices, the job of the desk seems to be to keep patients away from the Doc. When I was Full Timing in my little RV, it was a grueling process to see a Doc in a new area to get my prescriptions renewed. If I were doing it again, I'd take the advice of several people and just use the Emergency Room or Urgent Care Center (in reverse order).
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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