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See my comment below; to that I add, have you tried delivering these as paper? I.e. general history on one page (although in my experience that's normally that
by hga 11y ago
See my comment below; to that I add, have you tried delivering these as paper? I.e. general history on one page (although in my experience that's normally that's covered in a single page of checkboxes), and lab results in both raw and condensed spreadsheet form for the relevant ones?
Note that absent a really difficult medical history, no doctor has time go back through a long history by (many) other doctors trying to find what's relevant and what's not. A "just the facts, mam" summation of your history is a much better start.
I fact, that's exactly what my current psychiatrist got from my previous one who'd seen me for a decade before I moved back to/retried to my home town. Probably took the former a few extra minutes. but he preferred that approach and I'm sure it was easily condensed to a page or so, even a paragraph or two would be sufficient.
That said, my mother was an RN and my father managed the business affairs of a bunch of doctors while I was in middle and high school, and one was our primary hunting partner. And I was on a biology track before I discovered how much better I liked chemistry. So I'm on top of this sort of stuff a lot more than most patient will be, but I suspect this sort of "just the facts, mam" approach could be more generally applied to our current system with benefit.
And if I were you, I'd fire those 9/10ths of ... overly focused doctors until I found a good one like your old one. Did just that after I found a very good one who then went to work for the man in the ER room before the multi-doctor practice he was in failed, then I had to fire two doctors who would not stop forcefully pushing statins, and finally found one who was willing to rationally discuss them, e.g. respect that I had enough of a biology background to balance the picture presented to him by the usual suspects.