Heidi - my questions answered

[Guest guest]

Hi Heidi,

Thank you for giving me your thoughts concerning Dr Lehman in

Indy. You brought up some good points that I wasn't clear on

before: the fact that he would be willing to see me to establish a

treatment history...that that is considered reason enough to see

a physician. In my experience with MDs, they do not want to be

bothered unless you are an emergency...and if you bother them

for anything less than that, you get an attitude and brush-off. It is

only my pain doc that is comfortable treating me as an on-going

patient that needs monitoring. I guess I have become

habituated to this attitude. Maybe it is just a regional approach to

medicine, and by going out of state I may be exposed to more

compassionate care and ongoing treatment aimed at preventing

things from becoming acute or even urgent.

And as far as the pseudocyst....there are days that I am

convinced that it is there and then days that I figure I am

over-obsessing about something that none of my previous

doctors think is relevant but again, you have a good point of

having peace of mind regarding it.

I guess I just need confirmation that there is validity in needing or

wanting to have someone that knows what he is doing give me

an opinion about my recent medical history, someone who is not

afraid to rock the boat and tell me like it is. All my doctors here

tippy-toe around things because they are afraid I am going to

sue my surgeons for all the blunders that they did to cause me to

have this chronic problem. Which was the farthest thing from my

mind....all I wanted was for them to make me feel better, to fix or

treat what happened during that surgery....but that is not how

modern medicine works, they are more concerned that the

patient not sue. How many times have I been told as a medical

professional to not say anything to a patient because " what he

doesn't know won't hurt him and can't change what happened

anyways. "

Laurie