Oh my.......

I just love how young people who have never had/seen anything know everything.

I was guilty too once upon a time.

That's so funny. In a sad, pathetic, mis-informing kind of way, of course. :)

I can only say that HOPEFULLY she is only finished with her 2 years of academics and is just now doing her student rotations, which will mean she still has at least 3 years left as a resident before they set her free to actually TREAT patients. My doc is fresh out of her residency, which made me a little nervous at first, but she has done all the right tests and diagnosed things other docs have missed for years. She is also the reason I am still alive right now. She ran a d-dimer test and called me personally at 10pm to tell me to get to the ER for a CT scan. After years with a horrible doctor, I feel very fortunate!

Ugh. That would have made me angry.

That's why...with my new quest to find a second opinon from a hematologist...the longer they've been practicing medicine, THE BETTER.
I figure that if they have seen more stuff and seen 'it all' then they know
a bit more than others.
We will see how that works out for me when I go and see him on the 5th. :)

TnT, guess she never heard of Pulmonary Hypertension:

http://patientblog.clotconnect.org/2011/06/29/chronic-lung-damage-after-pe-%E2%80%93-pulmonary-hypertension-cteph/

I once had a fall out with a Vascular Surgeon back in the late 90's regarding the topic of thrombophilia. The Navy decided to refer me to this doctor during my medical review because he was well respected. During our conversations he told me the only reason why people develop DVT's was injury, result of surgery, or not moving around enough. Since I didn't meet any of those criterial I ask him how I might have developed the clots; he didn't know. He basically said blood clot disorders are nonsense. I walked out on him and told the Navy referral office never to use him again. If NATT/NBCA was around back then he would have received a care package with resource material to better educate himself.

When I had my hip replacement surgery at a leading medical center/University, I had a class of med students drop by the Ortho Floor to interview patients. Bad timing for the hospital with me being there because I thoroughly discussed how anticoagulant medication was very important following the procedures and that out of the 10 people on the floor who had knee/hip replacement, I was the only one on anticoagulants following the surgery (the rest were on aspirin). Of course mentioning how hip/knee replacement is the leading cause of hospital acquired DVT and yet anticoagulation management is not standard protocol post operative raised a lot of questions from the young students; which I gladly tried to answer.

Goes to show, you need to be your own advocate.

Toss---- Ugh! And 'been there, been through that'!

To bring up a really old 'joke'------
What do they call the person who finished last in medical school?

Doctor.

ugh! Yeah, would have been a little upset myself! Every once in a while, my doctor has a student with him. A few years ago, the student came in to examine me first, asking a billion questions. When my doctor came in, he turned to the student and asked "ok, what could possibly be causing this this and this symptom?" The student answered right away with Hemochromatosis! Which might ordinarily seem out of left field. He was right however (I am a carrier for it) and the doctor was SO impressed with him! The funny past was I had already told him that, so when he answered and the doc was all happy, he kind of looked at me waiting for me to rat him out. LOL I didn't.

Back on topic though... it does get frustrating if not downright annoying how little some know about clots or the meds. I had a nurse tell me in the hospital not to worry, it wouldn't affect my period at all. Really????? And what really drives me crazy is that this "team" of doctors I have are always telling me something different. Nothing major, but different enough that it drives me nuts. What I would love is to get every one of them in a room together where I could just fire question after question at them and have one huge discussion about it all! OK, sorry for the tangent. :o)

Hi new here.. Just wanted to say that following two poorly managed admission/discharges from hospital is there no standard way of carrying information with you that clearly explains to doctors what being on Anticogulants means, procedure, INR's changes in drug dose,blood tests. Sad to say that I was in my local A&E having been sent there by my GP and was told by a doctor I was fine and to carry on with my drugs. When I asked what dose warfarin to take given the two previous days following INR results I took 8mgs and he just shugged his shoulders and said I suggest 2 to 3 mgs. NO reference to my INR previous or results taken that day he just pulled a figure off the top of his head. I left in dazed disbelief.

Having a TEAM sometimes is a good thing, then other times they drive you nuts! One doctor told me not to eat any greens, another told me to eat some, yet another told me to eat one serving a day. Ohhhhhhh lord! I was frustrated.

Hopefully this med student gets corrected sooner rather than later!!!

I had a med student put a blood pressure cuff on my arm at 220 last week as a tourniquet to help draw blood, i thought i would pass out it was so tight. Later his boss came and said he had put it on way too tight and actually stopped the circulation of blood into my arm altogether - that is why it took 45mins and a lot of pain to draw a small vial of blood!!! Thank god the visiting home nurses only need a drop for the coagucheck machine:)
I also had a young Dr tell me whilst i was awaiting the thombolysis treatment in the emergency room that "You are the most exciting patient in the emergency department today and that is NOT a good thing to be" I thought it was quite funny actually but said to the wrong patient it could've caused angst!!