Guest guest Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 In a message dated 12/31/2002 1:49:03 AM Central Standard Time, tdcc2000@... writes: However, the discharge papers said I had HepC....hubby told them it was NOT hepC but Autoimmune....oh when will these medical facilities learn????? I don't have the enregy to fight it. Let them think what they want. The worst part, is unless I fight the hospital with the discharge information, it could go on my medical record as having C instead of AIH.......I GIVE UP! debby This has happened to me so many times and it is so infuriating! Once again I say we have to be our own best advocates and this includes READING all of our records at all times to be sure they have things correct.......makes me so mad! Just last week when I had my biopsy it said "Hep C" and when I said "I don't have hep C!!" he said "Oh, the girls type it up and usually write that since 90% of our biopsies are on people with hep c" I said "I want it OFF my papers immediately!" Can you imagine? I mean I don't care how many OTHER patients they have or what they're there for......they might as well write I have HIV, HEP C and am really a GUY cause with HIS explanation it doesn't really matter anyway........ARGH! (He was the Radiologist performing the test!) OH and another thing that happened same day, they downloaded my labs for me from the day before and included one page of someone ELSES labs from 6 weeks before......I didn't notice at first,. was just saying "Wow, my ANA is positive this time.....usually it's negative" Well, it was positive cause it wasn't MINE! Happy New Year everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 In a message dated 12/31/02 9:21:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, tammyanng@... writes: .......they might as well write I have HIV, HEP C and am really a GUY Believe me that is definetly not the combination to have at all. Having them both is what has made my journey so much harder. At times they both start acting up at the same time just to see which one can take me out first but they forgot one thing; they invaded they body of a child of God and He will have the final say. As far as the medical field; they are so many of them that don't belong there and the patient is the one that suffers. It breaks my heart everytime I hear of things like that going on. I worked on the medical field as well and I can't recall a day that I would be as reckless to write a wrong diagnosis on the forms not to mention that could mess up the billing to the insurance company specially if medication was prescribed since they match the meds against diagnoses very carefull before payment is rendered and you how insurance companies love to deny payment on claims. When I started on the medical field I worked on the billing department of a local hospital and those insurance companies lived to find mistakes on those form to hold the payment so we had to be extremelly accurate or the supervisor of the unit will kindly escorted us to the front door. Best Wishes And Happy New Years ! Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Hi dear Friends, Well, I have another surgery and hospital stay under my belt. They operated on 2-10-04 to tighten the screws in the external fixator and added for more screws. This was supposed to be a 23 hour stay which turned into a 4 day incarceration. The infectious disease doctor put me on more antibiotics which needed to be administered for 72 hours and also the surgery was more extensive than previously thought. Actually the knee wasn't doing too bad up until Monday. I know have exudate coming out of the new pins (blood and a pus like substance), there is inflammation at the op site, the pain is increasing and last night, the pins started to move AGAIN. I am sooooooo discouraged, I could scream. I had an appt today, but due to some family problems, I had to cancel the appt (no transportation) and had to reschedule for Thursday. My hands are getting worse with RA, hence the few e-mails. I saw the rheumy prior to surgery and he said that 1 week after surgery, I could attempt to start with MTX and the prednisone. With the latest developments, I am holding off on this until I get some answers from the ortho. We have one of those " computer cameras " and Ron is trying to get pictures of my knee and scaffolding that they have erected, so that you all may get a better idea of what I am talking about. Hope this note finds you all hanging in there and dealing with minimum pain during these winter months. Gentle, tender, angel hugs to all, Debs in FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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