Update on my condition

[pingpong]

Well yesterday I wnet back to UVA to see my surgeon for my 2 week follow up. I get there and I am told that the DR. that did my surgery is out of country and I wil be seeing one of his residents. :???: So I say ok whatever, I just drove 2/5 hrs to see a resident.

 

They wheel me to the back, so I can get x-rays taken. A receptionist comes over to where they put me and hands me some paperwork to fill out. I was like cool especially since I am non mobile and have my crutches, and am in a wheelchair. Well I fil out the papers, and she totally forgot about me, and my paperwork. Luckily there was a nice gentleman in the waiting area, who took my papers up to the receptionist. After that, I was wheeled to the back for my x-rays.

 

 

Well back in x-rays, they manipulated my left foot. No big deal. Well now we go onto my right leg. WOW... is all I have to say. They removed my leg brace, and had me position my leg in all kinds of postions. Talk about inflicting pain on me.

 

 

Now I am waiting on the resident DR to see me. He came into the room inspected surgery site. He says I am doing well and sends a cast tech in to pull my staples. :???: I ask the tech a few questions and he says he will send the dr back in to answer my questions. Twenty minutes later the dr comes back answers my basic questions, writes me some pain pill scripts, and then discharges me.

 

 

 

@.5 hours of riding for something a doc in the box could have done.

[Eagle]

That sounds a lot like what I encounter every time I go to the VA hospital for "health care." My sympathies.

 

My wife fell a few weeks ago and broke her wrist. We've been to a hospital emergency room and three appointments with an orthopedic practice, and she hasn't been seen by a DOCTOR yet. She was seen by a PA (Physician's Assistant) at the ER. She was examined by a PA at the "doctor's" office, the PA set the wrist and casted it, and the PA reviewed the follow-up x-rays. And, as far as we know, the PA will be the guy who removes the cast the week after Thanksgiving.

 

I think it's pretty sad when you go to a doctor's office and you can't even see a doctor. At least a resident is a doctor.

[pingpong]

My big rub aboout the situation was the drive to and from the hospital to see a resident. 2.5 hr ride each way to see a resident who didnt want to answer my questions or didnt know the answers.. not sure which. I know the hospital where the surgery was done is a DR teaching hospital, but when the attending surgeon did the operation I would like him to do my follow up, or at least the resident who was treating me in the hospital that was walking around with the attending. Not some resident I never saw or talked to.

[Pete M]

My big rub aboout the situation was the drive to and from the hospital to see a resident. 2.5 hr ride each way to see a resident who didnt want to answer my questions or didnt know the answers.. not sure which. I know the hospital where the surgery was done is a DR teaching hospital, but when the attending surgeon did the operation I would like him to do my follow up, or at least the resident who was treating me in the hospital that was walking around with the attending. Not some resident I never saw or talked to.

 

 

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