HISTORY

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I just read a post where someone said that they spent an hour and a

half filling out the " history " with their PCP. I didn't do that and

now I'm wondering if I missed something. I gave my PCP the copy of

the letter from Dr. R. for them and they took it from there. I

assumed that my " history " would be in my medical records, due to the

fact that I've been seeing this doc for 5 years. Now I'm concerned

that maybe I should have done something more. What do you guys

think? Oh my gosh, I think I'm becoming a little neurotic about this

whole thing. I tell you what, I might need therapy before the whole

process if finished. Everytime, I start to relax a little, something

pops up that makes me wonder. Has anybody else out there spent so

much time with the " history " part? HELP?

Ranee

[Guest guest]

Ranee-

It sounds like from others that he will accept less, but you are

right. The form on the websight has a lot of early childhood

history, family history and such. I filled those sections out for my

doc. I knew he didn't have my early childhood stuff. I had to call

my mom about some of it. I assumed he would use the rest of the form

for his part, but he did not. He used his typical one page physical

for and attached what I had filled out and then hand wrote his letter

of support and copied some records.

I learn new things everyday about this process that I wish were all

in one place. Surely he doesn't depend on back post information

because he does surgery on a lot of people that are not on this site.

If you haven't sent it in you can do it yourself if you are worried,

but if you have, I wouldn't worry. Obviously, people do get this

surgery.

Laurie