My regular doctor didn't have anything open, so I had to see someone else. I had never met this doctor before so she didn't know anything about me. My regular doctor would have known to check on my weight level because of a couple emails I sent to his private business email account. Patients aren't supposed to know that info and nobody told me it. I found out a long time ago when I used to work within there network at a sister company. I guess with the rules and all, everything from the patient must be in an official, clinical encounter. My doctor can't even ask me about something I have written--he must go with the info on record and use that, if he can, to casually bring up a topic and go from there depending on my answers. Like if my weight is down a few pounds from the previous visit, he can comment on that and ask if I am getting enough to eat. Anytime someone asks me that my usual reply is that its enough for me. He knows that I have lots say to him but am afraid. He started asking me at the end of appointments before letting me go if there was anything else I would like to ask him about or mention. He gives me a chance to say more. Its really not fair to him for me to email him like I have in the past. Its like he is helpless. I feel bad about that. I am close to making an on-the-record email to the office suggesting that my pdoc thinks I have an eating disorder, though.
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My life and being formerly homeless
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