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I've found MDs to be funny about that kind of thing.
I feel terrible for you because nobody is taking time with you. Only having time for one problem. Arrgh. (Sorry doc, but the human body doesn't cooperate with your rules). Believe me, I've been there with my mom when she was at the MD, thinking I could help her avoid the wrong trigger words at the orthopedist's office, but we still said the wrong word, which caused the MD and nurse to spin on their heels and leave the room mad.
The wrong word? Shoulder instead of arm. When we had called, Mom said she had fallen and thought she broke her arm, and they said come right in. We filled out the paperwork and I wrote out how she fell and was having arm pain, pain moving into her shoulder. They never read my description, and just asked mom why she was there. Mom said shoulder pain, and she was about to explain how she had fallen off a ladder, but they made the snap judgment that she was back for chronic shoulder bursitis just because she said the word shoulder.
I sat there in stunned silence after they left, wondering what we'd said wrong to make them mad, and finally it occurred to me they thought the front desk had given an acute spot on the schedule to a chronic pain problem, and they were mad. They punished us for about 40 minutes before the MD came back in, and I emphasized that Mom had fallen TODAY from a ladder and thought she broke her arm, but now the pain was in the shoulder. So then the MD took care of the problem.
We had to beg the nurse for the shoulder sling the MD said she should have, assuring her this was a new injury.
The only reason I was able to figure out what we had done wrong was because I had worked there years before, and I knew how they were.
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I understand, but I'm just saying - Me
