Blood Pressure Question

How often when you go to the doctors do they check your blood pressure?


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Leejosepho

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I have a case if I want regarding my husband, I saw a lawyer last week. He will take it ...
I am at the very least going to get Tim's law in affect ...

Do you know much about lawyers?

First, "You have a case if you want it" simply means you can file a suit if you want to. Saying "You have a case if you want it" does not in any way imply the lawyer believes you have even the slightest chance of winning.

Next, lawyers are there simply to be sure none of your rights are overlooked or violated so the court only has to go through the entire process once. This might be difficult to believe, but there are very, very few lawyers who ever actually try to "win". Again, most of them quite wittingly only act as agents serving the court. So, "He will take it" means nothing more than that he will take your money to be sure you exhaust all options and are left with no way to try again later if things do not turn out as you would like.

I do not say any of this to ridicule or to criticize you in any way, but simply to express my personal hope you are not making the mistake of believing your lawyer either has your best interest in mind or gives even one whit about the outcome of your suit.

Here is some further information you might consider:

http://adventuresinlegalland.com/
http://georgegordon.com/
http://americaindistress.com/
 

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Now, this lawyer does not get paid unless, I win.

Are you sure?

Most contingency contracts stipulate that the client IS responsible for all costs involved with the suit. It is only the professional fee that is paid from the award.

The costs of a lawsuit can easily add up to thousands of dollars.
 

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http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/intro/notdiagcommon.htm


To examine how commonly failure-to-diagnose or delayed diagnosis occurs, here is a list of conditions according to the number of people undiagnosed. This is an estimate of how many people unknowingly currently have the condition. For comparison, see conditions by people affected (prevalence or incidence), conditions by prevalence and conditions by incidence.

Condition Percent RateUS People Data


Hypertension

5.51%

(1 in 18 Rate)

(15 million US People)

(MORE THAN 30% of 50 MILLION ARE UNDIAGNOSED)
 
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The patient is ultimately responsible for his/her quality of care

Starting a couple of years ago, the first thing I do after any medical encounter is stop by the records folks and ask for a copy of everything -- the Patient Information Form, test reports, raw data, consult notes, the works. Reading the consult notes is fascinating -- like Cookie, in some cases I wonder if they gave me someone else's file.

I'm not sure how you go about getting them corrected, but in some cases you should go on record in some way if you feel they're incorrect. One of my docs' notes, for example, said I "drink excessively". I'm not sure where he got that, but having that in my "official" medical record could hurt me when I applied for insurance, for example.

The politicians whine about insurance, but insurance isn't the problem -- it's the medical system itself. There's a relatively new profession now -- Patient Advocate -- someone who sits by your bed in the hospital and tracks your case. She makes sure you get appropriate care, it's properly charted, and will also check the bill to make sure you got everything you paid for. It seems sad to me that this fundamental function isn't built-in to the system.
 

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State law may make it easy, difficult, or impossible to get copies of your records. Somewhere I've got a copy of something a doctor's office gave me to justify NOT giving me my records, but I thought at the time it was bogus. I don't remember (gosh, I say that a lot these days) any instance where I haven't been able to get records I wanted. Most digital imagery is available on CD these days, and I usually get my own copy or am able to duplicate the original without any problems.

Keeping all the records yourself also makes it easier to pass on history to a new doc or specialist. If you send them the bundle before your appointment, some will actually read them and be better prepared to discuss your situation.
 

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I'm surprised the statute of limitations is so short. I think it's state law, so maybe PA is a good place to practice bad medicine. I'll ask my favorite attorney (who, by the way, now defends lawyers from disbarment actions) what she thinks.
 

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I gues it would depend on the charge, when it would start...if it was medical malpractice, it would probably start the date the malpractice last happened. Any charge related to your husbands death, would start the date of death. You may want to find out if the guy is liable to be charged with something like negligent homicide.
 

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Good luck Cookie..My mom, grandma, and aunt were all nurses....they'd be horrified at someone not taking BP.
 

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I got a feeling he didn't take his BP because he cut into how many people he could see at that given time ...

Possibly so, but that might not have been his own preference or choice. My daughter used to work in coding at the AMA, in Chicago, and she has told me a little about how at least some doctors are expected to "perform" (just like anybody else who has a job) by seeing a certain number of patients each hour. Working in that kind of "sweat shop" would not excuse reading someone's blood pressure incorrectly, but it could end up excusing him from not checking every patient he ever sees and shift the responsibility to his employer just like at the garage where one or more employees might never check tire pressure.

I do grieve with you over your loss, and it is blessing to hear your joyous memories.
 

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Hi Cookie,

Well,My answer is No Because doctors are not always taking the blood pressure in consideration.Blood pressure is main gate for all big and deadly problems.So I request to all doctors to check the periodically blood pressure of every patients.So many problems are arrived due to imbalance of blood pressure.

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My blood pressure is still borderline, just below requiring drugs.

I guess I am just one of those people who runs a little "hot".
 

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If you subscribe to the American Heart Association magazine you can catch a column I write on heart disease.

Wow! I did not know we had such a celebrity among us!

I asked about fluctuation because my cardiologist questioned my Clonidine dosage and frequency and said something about it a couple of days ago. So, now I have to monitor throughout the day for a while and make any necessary adjustments. He suspects my high-low range is too great over 24 hours.

Oh, and you do know there is really no such thing as "heart disease", yes? That is just an ambiguous term used to cover any problem either directly or indirectly related to the heart. For example, and as I am sure you would know, an attack on the heart -- a so-called "heart attack" -- does not happen because there is something wrong with the heart. Rather, the heart is simply "attacked" by whatever actual problem is going on nearby. In my case 10 years ago, my healthy heart did exceptionally well and survived (along with me) in spite of a couple of clogged arteries that had stopped supplying it.
 

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Joseph, I hope you are doing better, sorry to hear about such problems.

Yes, I do understand the things you mentioned. I have learned alot since my husband's death about the heart. Celebrity, lol. I don't think so.

Take care.
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110 over 70 on Tuesday.

I've been taking a fish oil capsule and a multi vitamin in the morning.
And I've cut back on red meat, since last December.

Last December it was a lot higher, and I was told to change things.
Fish, I've been eating more fish.

I still drink wine.

And happy birthday for your late husbands birth day.
It's too bad he's not here to share it with you.
It sounds like he was quite the guy.
 

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That is a good BP reading, keep it there if possible. Watch those vitamins being on chemo. I feel it is my duty to tell you that, cause you are my friend. I wish my husband were here too, I really miss him. I thought about paying a housecall to the doctor today, I never once confronted him yet.


Terry, I know this first link is for breast cancer, but this really applies to all cancers.

http://www.breastcancer.org/tips/ask_expert/2003_05/question_03.jsp

http://www.cancermonthly.com/cancerwire/may2009.html (I have seen this doctor, Dr. Heaney) Personally, I would take no vitamins. Think of it in these terms, would you give aid to the enemy? Even after the chemo tx's are over, I would not take vitamins for 4 to 6 months for some chemos continue to work that long within the cell.

Just incase this link goes down, or the site moves, here is something people should know.
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The question was - why did vitamin C reduce the chemotherapy drugs' effectiveness? Initially the researchers thought it was due to the antioxidant effects of vitamin C. Some types of chemotherapy drugs produce molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS), which lead to cancer cell death. Vitamin C combats these molecules, helping the cancer cells remain intact even after chemotherapy treatment.

However, the researchers discovered that the primary mechanism actually lies in the energy-producing structures in cells called mitochondria. Chemotherapy drugs work, in part, by damaging the mitochondria, which triggers cancer cell death. Vitamin C protects mitochondria cells from this damage. "Vitamin C appears to protect the mitochondria from extensive damage, thus saving the cell," according to Dr. Heaney.

Although the researchers say their results need to be confirmed in future studies, they could affect the use of vitamin C in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. They say their findings are directly applicable to treatment regimens, because the concentration of vitamin C used in the mice was similar to the concentration in patients who take vitamin C supplements.

Dr. Heaney says vitamin C is helpful for protecting healthy cells because it preserves the mitochondria. "But that isn't what you want when you are trying to eliminate cancer cells," he says. He suggests that cancer patients eat a healthy diet rich in vitamin C-rich foods, but he does not recommend taking large doses of vitamin C supplements.
 
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