Drs - Trudy

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Hi Trudy

I would strongly protest to the doctor about you 'ever' being dumped on her again.

This PA was worse than ignorant.

At least my PA knows a bit about Hep C, and is not 'fresh out of school'.

This story is unreal, and should never have happened....my God, you have a serious disease, and you need serious medical care.

If it were me - I would be looking right now for another GP.

One who knows their stuff, and is not too busy give me the personal attention I need.Sorry - this is my opinion.

I agree with you - 'be on top of your own medical issues'

love

don in ks.

From: trudykinsey@... <trudykinsey@...>Subject: [ ] Drs"Hcv" < >Date: Friday, December 31, 2010, 12:34 PM

Well I could not get an appt with GP any time soon. They offered visit with his PA. Sure , but I didn't know he had a PA. Just needed prescription updates and my chart updated. Hadn't been to see GP since before tx. Well, PA was incredabley young. Quess this is her first gig. No problem.Early on I told her about tx. She said " I didn't know Hep C could be treated." ( sigh, this is gonna be hard) Then she says " oh how lucky it didn't become chronic. You could have had it for years then." ( another audible sigh). Then she was up dating chart and she said she had the records from nuero. So I told her I had been referred to Oncologist. Suddenly she sat up taller and said,far too eagerly, " Oh, okay So you have cancer! " I thought Becky and I were gonna choke! We told her "no, not that we know of. Oncologist was running test." She said " how can you not know??" I opened my mouth to say How can you be so inept? Becky shot

me a look. But I was only there to have meds updated.So she refilled the ones needed, I requested an increase of my anti- dep. She agreed the Gabipentin is blocking the pain of shingles. She looked at shingles and said " maybe ring worm" God , I hopeshe didn't put Ring Worm in my chart! These are classic shingles. And iff it was ring worm I would have in different areas.( Ok, back to meds....) she then spent the next 10 mins explaining SAD and telling me to get a sun lamp to stop depression. ( what part of tx depression, and anxiety did she not get?).Then she says just go lay out in sun....( I looked at Becky cause I knew she was about to explode.Becky settled for eye rolling.) At this point we were done; I had my scripts. And I will worry about correcting med records later. But this was a good example of being on top of your meds and medical issues . Some one like her could do a lot of damage if a pt wasn't vocal about the pros and cons of what

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