Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
"Perhaps a best practices example from your car mechanic can help physicians get back in touch with the patients. For example, you bring in your car for its seasonal tire exchange. When you come back, the mechanic presents you with a bill for having performed that specific service.
In addition, they converse with you on the results of a routing 30-point check that they performed on your cars critical systems. They note that your brakes are wearing and that your wiper blades need replacing. You have information on what needs to be done to keep your car in good running order. You can decide to schedule your car for an immediate brake replacement or wait until spring.
Compare this with what critics say; that physicians today only take a cursory physical examination of the patient. In a 10 minute one-issue-per-visit environment, you can consider yourself luckily if you get your blood pressure checked."
"Patients are more complex than the one hit diagnosis"
"we have got to go back to the idea of putting hands on the patient and establishing physical contact in a way that cements the therapeutic, not just simply hide behind our white coats and our scrubs and vanish into the realms of the latest new machine. We have to remember what we were taught in medical school about how to talk to our patients, to listen to them, and the power of touch.
[My note: But ask them to please put exam gloves on first.]
In addition, they converse with you on the results of a routing 30-point check that they performed on your cars critical systems. They note that your brakes are wearing and that your wiper blades need replacing. You have information on what needs to be done to keep your car in good running order. You can decide to schedule your car for an immediate brake replacement or wait until spring.
Compare this with what critics say; that physicians today only take a cursory physical examination of the patient. In a 10 minute one-issue-per-visit environment, you can consider yourself luckily if you get your blood pressure checked."
"Patients are more complex than the one hit diagnosis"
"we have got to go back to the idea of putting hands on the patient and establishing physical contact in a way that cements the therapeutic, not just simply hide behind our white coats and our scrubs and vanish into the realms of the latest new machine. We have to remember what we were taught in medical school about how to talk to our patients, to listen to them, and the power of touch.
[My note: But ask them to please put exam gloves on first.]
Aussie38
Yeah that sounds spot on to me Cave, if my Dr pre PE had listened to my symptoms instead of dismissing the ones that didn't fit his theory then I wouldn't have ended up in intensive care! Like blue numbs lips, that's gotta be a symptom NOT to ignore;)
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No kidding! When I went to see my surgeon for a post-op visit 2 weeks after my surgery (one week before hospitalization) my BP was super low, I told him I hadn't been able to take a deep breath since my surgery, and I couldn't sleep on my sides without waking in horrible pain. My heart rate didn't drop below 100 the entire time I was in the hospital, and the nurses had me on oxygen for a day and a half because I was struggling to breathe. I KNOW the possibility of clots went through his mind...he looked at my legs, asked if I had any swelling, and since I didn't just told me I must be healing slower than most. Really?!? One blood test or scan could have told him otherwise and I'm sure my clots would have been much smaller when diagnosed! SO frustrating! On the upside, I got the honor of being his first patient to clot in 20 years of surgery, which really threw him for a loop! He was insistant after diagnosis that I should have genetic testing done bcause he was SURE something would show up. When I go back to see his partner for my yearly exam, I'll be sure to let her know all my tests came back negative for clotting disorders so she can pass it along to him!
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