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MINI Cooper

MINI Cooper

All I can say is....wow. :eek2:

A few weeks ago I ordered my medical records for the last 1.5 years
at the advisement of my Stanford doctor. At first I was going to request all of
my medical records, but the receptionist told me that would be too costly,
since it is 25 cents per page to print. So I just got the stuff from when my
appendix ruptured till now.

But I didn't think the stack would be this big!!!!!!! :eek:
My God, I must need a semi truck for ALL of my medical records!!
There's almost 1000 pages here...
Does anyone else have a fatty stack like this? what did you do with it???
I don't know where I'm gonna put mine.



I was flipping through some of it last night, and noticed some interesting things.
During one of my last hospital stays, the nurse wrote down (and it is now in my
medical records forever) that "the patient is complaining about the clear liquids
and wants solid food."

COMPLAINING???!!! Great. marked down forever as a complainer. :lol:
oh well. Didn't know they added that stuff to people's medical records. :yrolleyes:
 
Colt

Colt

That was probably in a nurse's note. They're supposed to note pretty much everything. That comment wasn't really a bad one. The intention is for the nurse that takes over after your current one to be able to look back and know what's going on so that you don't have a decrease in the quality of your care just because there's been a shift change. Documenting that you wanted off the liquid diet would be useful mainly to bother the doctor to consider letting you off of the liquid diet. It's not really going to be used to label you a whiner. Especially beyond the next shift. 95% of the time not even your doctor has read anything out of your medical records other than what they put in themselves. The rest of the medical staff are even less likely or even forbidden from looking at it.

I used to have to keep a constant observation of my patients including every little detail. It would usually be about a page long for each patient each shift. Sometimes 2 depending on how interesting of a day it was.
 
AIjen

AIjen

Location
Wisconsin
I have a really big stack too, but mine are from the past 7-8 years. I will be requesting mine from 2008 at the beginning of next year. That should add another few inches to my stack! I 3-hole punch mine and put them in a binder in order by year. Since you have just the year and a half, I guess I'd just put it in date order. I also went through mine and highlighted all the abnormal stuff, but that was because I was bringing all my records to a rheumatologist and wanted him to be aware of everything abnormal so he could see the "whole picture" instead of just one of the symptoms that were bothing me at the time. I'm very glad I did this.
 
jed

jed

so far i have 3 manilla folders worth at the hospital. i love going thru them when i get a chance (doc leaves the room)
 
drew_wymore

drew_wymore

I had my records printed out then scanned into a PDF doc that I have on a flash drive so I can carry it around with me along with whatever cocktail of meds I happen to be on at the time etc in case I collapse in a mall or get run over helping an old lady across the street the paramedics can pop it in a laptop looking for porn and be disappointed.
 
MINI Cooper

MINI Cooper

I would like mine on a USB also, but there's too much to scan!
Maybe I will just scan what I think is most important....not that I look forward
to diving into 1000 pages....ugh :yrolleyes:
I wish the hospital could just give me a flash drive with it already on there.
Such a waste of trees. And in this day and age you'd think they'd be able to now...
 
MINI Cooper

MINI Cooper

Don't know anyone I'd trust with my medical records...
Not like I have anything better to do right now anyway I guess :yrolleyes:
 
RHOV

RHOV

drew, that's a really good idea!

maybe we should all have microchips implanted under our skin ad every time we visit the doctor, they can electronically update out medical records and save them on a little chip.
 
drew_wymore

drew_wymore

RHOV said:
drew, that's a really good idea!

maybe we should all have microchips implanted under our skin ad every time we visit the doctor, they can electronically update out medical records and save them on a little chip.
Click to expand...
RFID ftw
 
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