Chronic Pain Survival Tricks and Self-Help Techniques by Stephen Schnitzer Esq

Author:Stephen Schnitzer, Esq. [Esq., Stephen Schnitzer,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 1969-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Letters and Gifts to Doctors

Sometimes a sudden condition arises. Now you have met three or four doctors and one of them is telling you to take a particular drug. The drug’s specific warning explained by the pharmacist researcher or the drug warning enclosure included with it is telling you boldly “do not take this medicine without consulting with your physician especially if you have health problems”. Generally drug companies use general broad language by following certain safety or legal protocols themselves. For example, what health problem do you know about while you were in active duty while in the Gulf? You had a bypass; you once had arrhythmia during pain attack; your elbow was a little bit soar. The answer to these historical pain issues is easy. Consider the doctor who now gives you the new medicine. Now your primary physician, your pain doctor and the new referring prescribing doctor all need to be contacted while you tell them about your prior history and inquire if you should take the new drug and will it interact with any other medicines. Make sure your endocrinologist gets a copy. The possible results are that none of them or all of them or some of them may respond. If you get no response at all still call first the pharmacist and your endocrinologist. If you get some response and you are still unclear check with your primary care physician and your endocrinologist and call your friendly pharmacist if you have any additional issues or concerns.

Letter writing is the easy part. Gifts are not so easy. It is easy to give a gift which means little like some type of china piece or child-like item which professes “number one doctor” or something else not so clever. Let it come as no surprise that professionals like everybody else enjoy gifts. Indeed, it may act as a tool to loosen them up. Actually a good source for a gift is a fine bottle or case of very good wine that they can drink or give away. The more you do it, the better off the doctor will respond to you. Very often these days very few patients do it. When you do so from time to time it is better received rather than being a more obligatory every visit item. Is the doctor going to tell you the something different or something better just because you gave him or her some wine? Not likely, but your relationship will improve and your calls back may be more quickly returned. Psychologically your chances of becoming “a good guy” or “a real person” in the doctor’s mind may be enhanced.

The doctor’s office is the “backroom” operation. If the support staff is not well organized the doctor does not usually know it and/or he has no control over it while in another doctor’s medical facility where there is little or nothing he can elect to do to solve staff problems.

You want to hear from the doctor. You want out of pain or your medical questions resolved.

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