Grumpy ole thing
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- discovering you cant actually turn the stairs round, or move the roof...
and they always measure your BP but never measure your BS unless you are diagnosed as a diabetic. They do these things because they have always done them and the practice is never reviewed.I get fed up with them wanting to weigh me each and every visit. When I had pneumonia, they wanted to weigh me. When I had an abscess, they wanted to weigh me. When I damaged my finger, they wanted to weigh me.
I just say no. I got bored with making jokes about ho much my lungs or finger weighed and how that might affect treatment.
It's height for me, every time. How tall am i? Same as I've been for over 30 years,
If you have seen her multiple times, can you point out that she is repeating questions (might be a good idea not to highlight one) and ask if she can just ask if anything has changed?
At least you still look young enough to be fertile!For me, it is "are you pregnant?"
My brain: Do I look pregnant? *feels offended* is it because i'm juicy?
My sarcastic side: My bf hasn't put any buns in the oven yet, maybe ask again in a few months.
Me: Nope.
Yes and you could include a LOL card too.
- Just write on some cardboard and hold them up, with: YES, NO, DONT GIVE A HOOT, COMPUTER SAYS NO........., SAME ANSWER AS LAST TIME, lol that should do it
I said "you can weigh me but you can't tell me what the number is" (truth). They will do it and oddly sometimes didn't bother to weigh me......Once I exclaimed “oh not again!” And the nurse said “well we don’t have to” so we didn’t
Here's a help. ICD-10 has specific codes to identify nonsmokers and levels of alcohol use. In order to submit those codes there must be documentation in your medical record that your practitioner has asked you the questions received your answer. So, go with the response that nothing has changed since your last visit and the practitioners have documented your response to these history questions and can record the ICD-10 diagnoses.I have just been asked - yet again - if I smoke. Every time I have any contact with my GP practice nurse, I am asked the same question again. I have never smoked, my husband has never smoked, my parents never smoked, my brother and sister have never smoked, my son has never smoked. Am I really the ony one who is fed up with being asked the same question over and over again ? I am now in my mid-sixties and I am beginning to feel this is beyond a joke. Does she think that I will take up smoking in my sixties ? Or does she think I've been lying for years ?
Yes, I know the system demands that my response to the question has to be recorded, but it is driving me up the wall. She has asked me the same question every time she has ever spoken to me. Words fail me.
Just had to have a rant !