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Ronnie My life journey in this crazy healthcare system has wrote so many addendums to the text book. Lol
Healthcare professionals commonly to a patients symptoms and try to fit it in the text book but as you and many others here know, some just don’t fit in the text book. @carolel but take comfort and know addendums are always needed.
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@dawn_giacabazi
Hi Dawn
I like your response!
I have also had a wild journey through the healthcare system.
I think what you said is VERY IMPORTANT for all of use to remember....'one size does not fit all.'
As an educator, I said this all the time.
As a patient, I would like to hear the medical staff say the same thing.
In my opinion, a good education (no matter what area of study) teaches the student how to take the information taught, analyze it and use it as a tool, NOT as an answer written in stone.
I have so rarely seen this happen.
As I read the posts, it is evident that many of the doctors we are dealing with are not utilizing their thinking skills along with their book knowledge to solve a problem.
So, we are told nothing can be done or that they don't know what is wrong and their relationship with the patient is done.
I don't know if you have read my posts about my most best (lol) and recent problems with back. If you have, I apologize for the repetition.
I have just started using a new doctor (lol....new compared to my age).
He is a new area of need as well as a new doctor to me.
When I first started with him, I had a classic presentation of a cervical issue.
I had surgery and the problems I was having up above was gone.
Now, we are trying to deal with my lumbar (lower) spine.
Unexpectedly, for no reason, other issues started to appear.
He had me go for a mylogram CT.
Nothing was found to account for the new issues.
Previous tests were not helpful, either.
During out appointment, he checked the CT with a fine tooth comb, himself.
He found a dot.
He didn't know if it was a cyst, tumor or a blip on the film.
He said he wasn't 100%, not even 50% comfortable with the CT report, either.
He sent me for a MRI with contrast.
He was right. It was not a blip on the film. It is a cyst in my spinal canal.
What was bothering him all along was that I was presenting like I had spinal trama, which I jdidn't.
This doctor actually put away the books and used his experience and thinking skills to find an answer.
This has been a very unusual experience for me.
Sorry to be so wordy.
Have a pain free day,
Ronnie (GRANDMAr)