OT: Computerized medical records

[Guest guest]

I'm really angry. As we discussed here the problem of computerized medical

records. I just looked at an Rx for blood test a doctor gave me and noticed in

the area where she wrote down 'why' she is running blood test, she put Rx:

anorexia!! I don't have anorexia! That's psychiatrist diagnosis of fear of

eating. First of all she isn't a psychiatrist so why is she diagnosing a

psychiatric illness. ist. For another thing, I don't starve myself at all. I

am just thin. Just because I'm thin, doesn't mean it's something I'm trying to

achieve. I think I have pancreatitis, which would prevent me from absorbing fats

I digest. I have signs on MRI of enlargement of pancrease for two years now,

and a pancreatic cyst has developed. The fact that I'm thin worries me. The

only thing I can think of is perhaps I might have mentioned I avoid sugars and

carbs, but that's advised *everywhere* right now, for general health and some

places saying research shows it is linked to all kinds of disease, including

cancer but I don' remember mentioning that. Who does she think she is anyway

diagnosing me with a psychiatric disorder of aversion from food. If she wrote

it on my blood test, she would have written it in her records. She also wrote

stress and that is true, because *I can't walk right now' and nobody can figure

out why it's taking so long to heal. I guess she thinks it's because I'm not

eating, but I am. In fact I'm constantly nibbing on something, fatty, salty,

you name it, just not sugar and try not to skip meals. Everyone should eat like

I do. This is what I meant by computerized health records really messing your

health records, since if this went into some record that all doctors accessed,

and it probably already does, I would be treated as if I have a psychiatric

problem toward food, and to many people that just means you are crazy, period.

Sometimes I think I should stop going to doctors period. They never solve

anything for me and the co-pays don't even seem worth it anymore. At least that

has been my experience. I realize I'm taking what she said and spreading it

further, but decided to share for people who have never read what your doctor

writes down after your visit. I had a gastro doctor who wrote down on an Rx for

blood test that stated the 'exact opposite' of what I said. He asked me about

both symptoms and I said 'no' to both symptoms. Not that that is upset thing to

say but it is just messes up medical records. Then I notice in reading notes of

doctors they usually don't say you said 'no' to this or that, but that you

'deny' having this or that symptom. " Patient 'denies' having stomach pain', for

example, like you would lie about it. Why take you time and money and see a

doctor and then deliberately lie about your symtoms. They are sooooo creepy. I

may not go to a doctor at all anymore. I'm just getting fed up totally. Their

attitude, their costs, their lack of achieving any improvement in my health and

those of loved ones. Even with the sugar/carb avoidance, I just try to keep

them to a minimum but still use sugar daily and eat carbs and eat grains. My

feeling is just to minimize them is enough, because I want a diverse diet and

not eliminate anything totally. Furious. They can't get anything right, not

even something so simple as putting down what you actually said and came there

for. No wonder they can't solve anything. They don't know who they are

treating. They're notes are wrong. I go through periods of lose of appetite

which can be due to stress and she may have been refering to that, but that is

not anorexia, that is " lose of appetite " ..duh!