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"Ask to step on the scale backwards (so you can’t see the numbers) and for the staff not to tell you or put it in follow up notes from your visit." It is expec
by Out_of_Characte 5y ago
"Ask to step on the scale backwards (so you can’t see the numbers) and for the staff not to tell you or put it in follow up notes from your visit."
It is expected that patients are medically illiterate but to be the best patient for a doctor is the best thing you could do for your physical health. The scale is just an accurate representation of reality just like your LDH level.
- Incipient 5y agoI feel like doctors have a responsibility to inform patients that they're in an unhealthy state. Even if a patient should/does know. In the USA it's probably a legal thing too if the patient has a heart attack they'll sue the doc for not being told they were overweight!