Getting Information


If you have a PM, or if you have one in your future you will or have been depending on the dr to be truthful with us. Well, I just finished an article in Readers Digest that may be of interest to some of you or even frightening to some. It is titled "50 Secrets Surgeons Won't Tell You" and from the Oct. 2012 issue of Readers Digest.

I'm sure many of you have or will read this article. While it is not specifically directed at pacemaker patients, we do all have surgery to get one so I strongly recommend that you read what the surgeons have to say in this article. Also, you will be like me as you read the statement by the doctors. You will say "I knew that, or I suspected that."

If you don't have access to this issue of Readers Digest, you can order the book from which these statements were taken from "13 Things They Won't Tell You" from most book stores or off the Internet. It can be an eye opener many aspects of what we expect or what we may get from our surgeon. Take a look you may learn something.

If you are like me you may think what are my alternatives. So far as I know there are none. But the article did provide me with some things to look for, or questions I should ask.

Smitty

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Getting Information

by SMITTY - 2012-09-18 11:09:55

Donb,
You are so right about our needing to have someone go with us whenever we go to the Dr. My wife always goes with me. Of course her being a nurse and 30+ years as a Drs's assistant helps her explain to me the stuff that I miss.
I just reread that article and it is amazing when I realize how much I have missed over the years, even with her help. I think I'll keep the article, o may try to get the book it came from to keep as a reminder in the future.
Smitty

Good Article !!

by donb - 2012-09-18 12:09:28

Hi Smitty, I also read the article, very good comments. As I've been somewhat informed about hospital & doctors tactics over the past 28 years from little tidbits of info given to me by my wife working as a nurse. Naturally when either of us has an appointment with any of the Drs we always go together which usually gets into hospital politics.
Reading this article is like a re-run of our Dr. office calls.
Sad part is I'm always afraid to approach the discussion with asking about why I'm having this appointment. After my last go around with surgery & hospital stay I plan on going alone to any upcoming appointments.

I want to mention also that this only applies to myself as it's always best to have someone with you when visit your Dr.
Guess I'm just a little unhappy as my Dr really dropped the ball which could have been more than serious because of an oversight of missing a test result. Thanks for the reminder of the article in Reader's Digest.
donb

Hi

by Moner - 2012-09-19 01:09:54

Hi Smitty,

Thanks for the heads up, I'll be looking forwards to reading the October's Reader's Digest edition, when it hits the newsstands.

Moner
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