All Entries Tagged With: "doctor examination"
Visiting concerns
Part of being a Mummy includes regular visits to the health visitor. When Toby was a baby we went every other week to have him weighed and to discuss any problems.
I have been a lot more laid back with Oscar and we now visit her about once a month. I suppose this is due to me feeling [...]
What should you ask the Doctor during your Prenatal Visits?
During Pregnancy you have to visit the doctor quite frequently and it is very necessary that you build a good rapport with your ob-gyn.
Choose the Right Doctor
To get a good medical assistance you need to have a good relationship with your doctor. There should not just be professional terms with your ob-gyn but you should [...]
Prenatal Visits: What to Expect?
You will require a lot of visits to your doctor to ensure the good health of both your baby and you. So, it is very important to choose a doctor whom you can trust. You need to visit your practitioner every four weeks in the first and second trimester, every two weeks until 36 weeks [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – No-No’s
Absolute No-No’s
It’s a sorry situation but you might as well believe that doctors have issues with overweight people. Beside this, there are more suggestions below.
Don’t Act Entitled
Regardless of your importance outside, in the doctor’s office you are just the same as every other poor soul waiting for this doctor who has control issues. Don’t [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Getting Prepped
We found out earlier that bringing a list to the doctor’s office helps you be more self-contained and to the point. Now it seems that the list if for the patient alone, as doctors regard these lists very poorly. They really dislike your inadequate list.
Well, hold your own if you need one but be concise [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Stoicism is for Wimps
Interesting article that both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Department of Veterans Affairs have requested that pain be a fifth vital sign along with pulse, temperature, breathing rate, and blood pressure.
This seems to have come by way of doctors not wanting to address pain. They don’t like to think that [...]
Women’s Health: Your Doctor’s Examination – Part 4
Blood and Lymph
Your blood has red cells, which carry oxygen, white cells that fight infection and platelet that allow clotting to occur. This fluid system also includes plasma which is the fluid itself. Lymph drains the system as well as blood, which is very busy eliminating waste products from the body.
Anemia is a condition that [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Getting Prepped
We found out earlier that bringing a list to the doctor’s office helps you be more self-contained and to the point. Now it seems that the list if for the patient alone, as doctors regard these lists very poorly. They really dislike your inadequate list.
Well, hold your own if you need one but be concise [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Patient, Know Thyself
Ironically, it has been found that 70% of correct diagnoses have been because the patient spoke up, and told the doctor what was going on their lives. In the previous parts on doctors we were told to be agreeable and quiet. Let’s see what is going on.
Here are some of the reasons patients don’t want [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Good Patient, Bad Patient
Both patient and doctor have expectations of each other. Expectations can be dangerous. Very few of us get our expectations satisfied. So we’re pissed off. So is the doctor. Hospitals are trying to educate their doctors in empathizing, giving a kind pat or a good word. Still, unconscious hopes are still firing the situation.
Another unhappy [...]
Women’s Health: The Doctor’s Examination – Part 1
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