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  • CopperC Offline
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    Copper
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    #11

    I recommend whiskey, and maybe some vitamins.

    I'm not a doctor.

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    • MikM Away
      MikM Away
      Mik
      wrote on last edited by
      #12

      But really, whisky.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • jon-nycJ Online
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        jon-nyc
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        #13

        You guys are cruel.

        Only non-witches get due process.

        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

          You guys are cruel.

          HoraceH Online
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          Horace
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          #14

          @jon-nyc said in Torn ACL:

          You guys are cruel.

          I don't think so.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • CopperC Offline
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            Copper
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            #15

            This will cheer him up

            This date in 1984

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            • HoraceH Horace

              My knees have always been garbage. I took a slip 10 days ago and the one knee that never got destroyed, got destroyed. So now my right knee quad tendon was completely severed a couple years ago, and now my left knee ACL has been torn. Knees suck.

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              Axtremus
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              #16

              @horace , sorry about your ACL. Get well soon.

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              • HoraceH Online
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                Horace
                wrote on last edited by
                #17

                Thanks Ax and all.

                Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                Education is extremely important.

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                • HoraceH Horace

                  Thanks Ax and all.

                  Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                  George KG Offline
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                  @horace said in Torn ACL:

                  Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops..... So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week.

                  I'm surprised that the ortho's office didn't advise you to bring any imaging that you'd already had.

                  It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                  It would be even more wonderful if the ortho's office could access the MRI images remotely without you having to chase down the CD (what, wait...CD?) to hand to him.

                  This kind of BS is one of the reasons why Mrs. George and I have consolidated all of our care to one facility, where everything would be immediately available to every doc.

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • George KG George K

                    @horace said in Torn ACL:

                    Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops..... So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week.

                    I'm surprised that the ortho's office didn't advise you to bring any imaging that you'd already had.

                    It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                    It would be even more wonderful if the ortho's office could access the MRI images remotely without you having to chase down the CD (what, wait...CD?) to hand to him.

                    This kind of BS is one of the reasons why Mrs. George and I have consolidated all of our care to one facility, where everything would be immediately available to every doc.

                    HoraceH Online
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                    Horace
                    wrote on last edited by Horace
                    #19

                    @george-k said in Torn ACL:

                    @horace said in Torn ACL:

                    Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops..... So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week.

                    I'm surprised that the ortho's office didn't advise you to bring any imaging that you'd already had.

                    when I was referred to the ortho by my primary physician, who diagnosed the ACL based on the images, I figured the images were available. But apparently unless the ortho and the primary are in the same building or network or what have you, the ortho could not care less what the primary physician might think. But it's mostly a matter of ridiculous process. Injured people should not be conscripted as couriers, but here we are.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                    • CopperC Copper

                      This will cheer him up

                      This date in 1984

                      22ad3ceb-a5fe-4020-9481-f8af6a75486e-image.png

                      MikM Away
                      MikM Away
                      Mik
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #20

                      @copper said in Torn ACL:

                      This will cheer him up

                      This date in 1984

                      22ad3ceb-a5fe-4020-9481-f8af6a75486e-image.png

                      I used one.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • kluursK Offline
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                        kluurs
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                        #21

                        That's aggravating - on every level. It's easy enough to slip this time of year and torque things in ways that weren't meant to be. A friend who works out 3 hours every day managed to rip quad tendons from both knees while going down some steps. Hopefully, your next visit with the doc is a bit more productive. It is terrible that they didn't specify requirements before the visit.

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                        • HoraceH Horace

                          Thanks Ax and all.

                          Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

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                          wrote on last edited by
                          #22

                          @horace said in Torn ACL:

                          Thanks Ax and all.

                          Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                          HIPAA and no common platform.

                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                          • MikM Mik

                            Yikes! And add an OUCH! to that.

                            Hope it's as good a news as possible. You've been missed here.

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                            brenda
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #23

                            @mik said in Torn ACL:

                            Yikes! And add an OUCH! to that.

                            Hope it's as good a news as possible. You've been missed here.

                            +1

                            That's awful, Horace. I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope your doc has a good plan for you. You're way too young to have such a problem hamper your life.

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                            • HoraceH Horace

                              Thanks Ax and all.

                              Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                              brendaB Offline
                              brendaB Offline
                              brenda
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #24

                              @horace said in Torn ACL:

                              Thanks Ax and all.

                              Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                              For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

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                              • jon-nycJ Online
                                jon-nycJ Online
                                jon-nyc
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #25

                                I’ve personally retrieved image CDs here and Fedexed them to Duke.

                                At least Colombia and Duke now can share my records on epic. 6 years ago they couldn’t.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                • MikM Away
                                  MikM Away
                                  Mik
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                                  #26

                                  True, Jon, but your case is pretty unusual.

                                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                  • brendaB brenda

                                    @horace said in Torn ACL:

                                    Thanks Ax and all.

                                    Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                                    For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

                                    MikM Away
                                    MikM Away
                                    Mik
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #27

                                    @brenda said in Torn ACL:

                                    @horace said in Torn ACL:

                                    Thanks Ax and all.

                                    Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                                    For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

                                    Especially in the Bay area.

                                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    • brendaB brenda

                                      @horace said in Torn ACL:

                                      Thanks Ax and all.

                                      Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                                      For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

                                      JollyJ Offline
                                      JollyJ Offline
                                      Jolly
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #28

                                      @brenda said in Torn ACL:

                                      @horace said in Torn ACL:

                                      Thanks Ax and all.

                                      Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                                      For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

                                      [Ax] Well...If you don't like the technology...[/Ax]

                                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                      • jon-nycJ Online
                                        jon-nycJ Online
                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #29

                                        Yeah and it helps to have two large academic centers using the same EMR.

                                        If I go to Westchester radiology, the most convenient place, I still have to FedEx a cd.

                                        Only non-witches get due process.

                                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                        • brendaB brenda

                                          @horace said in Torn ACL:

                                          Thanks Ax and all.

                                          Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                                          For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

                                          HoraceH Online
                                          HoraceH Online
                                          Horace
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #30

                                          @brenda said in Torn ACL:

                                          @horace said in Torn ACL:

                                          Thanks Ax and all.

                                          Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.

                                          For crying out loud. A phone call to request a transfer of a file should be possible in today's world. The patient is right there to authorize permission, and the technology can't make it possible to send it? I would be so furious. It's ridiculous.

                                          Thank you Brenda.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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