Another doctor story

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: Alfred_B
Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek
Originally Posted By: Alfred_B
Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
Maybe the doctors are referring patients to their fellow doctor friends, like musical chairs...


It's highly illegal under STARK laws.


only if you take a bribe back.


That's another law that governs the referrals and is called Anti-Kickback statute. Referrals to family and friends are governed by the STARK Law.


OK we are both wrong. I just looked it up and Stark (not STARK) is about self-referral (not friends) for services (and not just visits).

 

[Dylan1303]

I take a 20mg pill of Lisinopril daily. I noticed once in awhile ill have 3-5 coughs at night like twice a week. I remember the doctor telling me coughing can be a side effect.

 

[marine65]

Originally Posted By: HosteenJorje
GP put me on Lisinopril for high blood pressure just before holidays because HCTZ wasn't making much of a difference. Middle of February and I'm back complaining of non productive coughing keeping me up half the night.. GP checked my lungs and I casual mention deviated septum and problem breathing through one nostril. End if discussion. See an ENT who couldn't find a thing. Told me to forget about septum because it wasn't a problem. Still coughing a week later and called for another appointment with GP. GP was away on extended something somewhere and go in to see another GP in the clinic. New GP has a medical student from Nebraska Medical Center with him. Dr. asks what meds I am taking and no sooner get Lisinopril out of my mouth and medical students chimes in "Lisinopril." Seems ACE inhibitors cause coughing in some individuals. GP put me on another BP med and said coughing could last for months.Still coughing. A GP who has been in practice for forty years refers me to a specialist and a fourth year medical student has diagnosis in thirty seconds.


Went to see my GP that I have been seeing for 20 years.

He has been an MD since the '70s.

My big toes were sore.

He says your have toe fungus and its not causing your toes to hurt. He had no clue.

Changed doctors and got one that has been practicing for 12 years.

He takes one look at my toes and says the toe fungus is making your big toe nail crumble and dig in to your toe.

He prescribes pills to take for 6 months.

Toe fungus is gone and toes don't hurt.

 

[gregk24]

Yep, Lisinopril can cause that.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Originally Posted By: HosteenJorje
GP put me on another BP med and said coughing could last for months.Still coughing. A GP who has been in practice for forty years refers me to a specialist and a fourth year medical student has diagnosis in thirty seconds.


You never mentioned the name of your new BP medicine that replaced Lisinopril?

 

[Leo99]

I take HCTZ for hypertension. Been exercising and losing some weight. Last time I checked, BP was 117/77. I do pee a lot, though.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

I wish a new GP would start a practice here as I think a new doctor looking for patients would be better than those here because they have been around a while. Some of them too long. I actually had a specialist tell me my GP should think about retiring.

 

[Mr Nice]

I saw a dermatologist last week to remove a mole and the guy was in his early 70's.

Nice doctor and still very sharp.

 

[Quattro Pete]

OP, do you possibly have a lingering sinus infection?

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: CKN
Now we are moving toward Doctors are incompetent/corrupt threads.

[off-topic]
CKN,
you just have to find the good ones. But sometimes it will be not easy.
2 personal experiences:
-my kid had troubles growing for years...changed family doctors, including some foreign educated (just to be closer to us in cultural/ways of thinking); nothing; we moved and the GP find/tipped us "it may be...." just by looking at her after first consultation, then ordering the right blood tests= confirmed Celiac/Coeliac Disease; the other former doctors had access to some of the biggest hospital in the area, including similar blood tests....they just looked at us as "cuckoos" when we told then the kid really has a problem....
-story from a country far-far away; step-dad goes to hospital with infection from untreated hand scratch; it captures 2 "buggs", which after 8 hard months put him 6 feet underground; 1.5 years under, news from that far-far away country; the company responsible with proving the whole country with medical disinfectants+supplies, was providing pretty much purified water; the boss conveniently died in a 200+KMH car accident...are you going to tell me a whole country's system didn't realize the disinfectants weren't doing their jobs anymore and the in-hospital infections just increased trough the roof?

i know the point you are trying to convey: we are (with very few exceptions) not experts in the matter
but those 2 experiences leave me very bitter and more likely to believe the reports that medical deaths are more than vehicle deaths
[/off-topic]

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

And GP should be gone too but it's hard to change. The devil you get may be worse than the one you have.

 

[SatinSilver]

Did you guys hear the story this morning about the Pope catching the Bird Flu virus? It sounds similar to what the OP has, as far as symptoms go. The doctors think he caught it from one of his Cardinals.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Link please...... thank you in advance.