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Few things are as frustrating as having your health concerns dismissed by a doctor. Sadly, this is an all-too-common experience, especially for women. Many find themselves jumping through endless hoops, searching for answers, and battling exhaustion along the way.
Disability and human rights advocate Jessica Wetz decided she’d had enough. To make her appointments more productive, she came up with a smart solution: compiling all her medical records—lab results, diagnoses, and treatment history—into a single binder. By bringing it to every visit, she feels prepared to address any doubts or questions about her health.
Jessica took to TikTok to share her approach, and her videos quickly went viral. Read on to discover how her system works and why it’s made such a difference in her journey.
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After dealing with dismissive doctors one too many times, disability and human rights activist Jessica Wetz came up with a solution
Image credits: Image by Freepik (not the actual photo)
She put together a medical binder for her appointments, and it has made her life so much easier
Image credits: jessicawetz6
“Medical binders make things faster for doctors, that’s why we use them and why they thank me for them. Let me explain how it works.
I had a doctor say to me, ‘There’s no way you had straightening of lumbar curvature at 14.’
You don’t have to believe me, I have the report right here. Let’s read it together.”
Image credits: jessicawetz6
“I had a doctor say to me, ‘Okay, Jessica, I’m gonna order you some labs and then in six weeks, we’ll go over them.’
I go, ‘What blood work do you want?’
He goes, ‘Vitamin D, vitamin B, iron.’
‘Perfect, I had it 2 days ago. I have it right in front of me. We don’t need to wait 6 weeks.’
He’s like, ‘Oh, that was easy.'”
Image credits: jessicawetz6
“I had a doctor say to me, ‘Okay, Jessica, I went over your results, everything is normal, have a good day, bye.’
‘Hold up, doc, my CT showed liver disease.’
He goes, ‘No, Jessica, you never had a CT, you had an MRI.’
I go, ‘No, doc, pull it up, you have the report, I’ve had both.’
‘No, Jessica, let me explain to you the difference.’
‘Nope, I have it right in front of me, you can read it yourself. See? July 2023, CT of the abdomen. Dilated bile ducts, primary sclerosing cholangitis. Follow-up MRCP recommended.’
‘Oh, OK, yeah, I’ll order that.'”
Image credits: jessicawetz6
“And you saying a summary page is funny, because I do have a summary page that lists all my diagnoses and [stuff].
And one time, a doctor, I said I have Ehlers Danlos, he goes, ‘You have Ehlers Danlos? Like, a doctor diagnosed you with that?’
I go, ‘Yup.’
He goes, ‘What’s the doctor’s name?’
‘You don’t have to believe me, dude, I literally have the report right here. There you go.'”
Image credits: jessicawetz6
“So a summary report doesn’t do s**t, the purpose of the binder is to prove to them what other doctors have said because they’re not gonna take my word for it.
I had a doctor say to me, ‘Okay, Jess, we’re gonna order you an ultrasound.’
‘I already had an ultrasound a week ago.’
‘Yeah, we know, but we’ve called that hospital multiple times and they won’t send the report over.’
‘Guess what, I have it right here. No need to wait a month and waste somebody else missing out on an ultrasound, I already did the work for you.'”
Image credits: jessicawetz6
“So now you know, when you see a patient with a binder, they’re not there to read it to you front to back.
If I’m trying to talk to you about my knee pain, I’m not reading you my colonoscopy report. That’s not relevant.
I’m not reading you my echocardiogram, that’s not relevant. Unless you accuse me of never having one and you wanna argue with me.
Because with this book, I can shut down every [freakin’] time a doctor wanted to sit there for 15 minutes and mansplain some [nonsense] to me that’s not true.
So talk about wasting time, this is how I avoid doctors wasting my [freakin’] time.”
You can watch the videos in full below
@jessicawetz6 Replying to @iLike314159 Medical Binders PREVENT doctors from wasting limited time and resources. Its not a story book, its references when relevant. Female patients arnt believed so we must provide proof. Complex cases with huge files from different facilites result in serious things getting missed when you dont keep track yourself. Complaining that doctors dont have time for patients to make their job faster is irrational. #chronicillness#medicaladvocate#misdiagnosed#rareillness♬ original sound – Jessica Wetz 🍉#6
@jessicawetz6 Replying to @Jessi ✨️ ♬ original sound – Jessica Wetz 🍉#6
@jessicawetz6 Replying to @Carlina Oglesby ♬ original sound – Jessica Wetz 🍉#6
Women and minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis
If carrying your entire medical history to every appointment, especially as a woman, feels excessive, consider this: every year, 12 million adults in the U.S. are misdiagnosed, often with serious consequences.
A misdiagnosis can be dangerous or even fatal. Research reported in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that nearly 1 in 4 hospital patients who died or were transferred to intensive care had experienced a diagnostic error. Nearly 18% of those misdiagnosed were harmed or died.
Overall, an estimated 795,000 patients a year die or are permanently disabled due to misdiagnoses, according to a study published in BMJ Quality & Safety.
However, some groups are more at risk than others. Women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis, said Dr. David Newman-Toker, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the lead author of the BMJ study. “That’s significant and inexcusable,” he told KFF Health News.
Image credits: DC Studio / Freepik (not the actual photo)
Other findings consistently point to this bias. For example, a study in Academic Emergency Medicine showed that women who visited the emergency room with severe stomach pain waited almost 33% longer than men with the same symptom.
Among minorities, Black people with depression are more likely than others to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Additionally, minorities are less likely than white patients to be diagnosed early with dementia, depriving them of access to treatments that are most effective in the early stages of the disease.
“The vast majority of diagnoses can be made by getting to know the patient’s story really well, asking follow-up questions, examining the patient, and ordering basic tests,” said Hardeep Singh, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and a researcher at Houston’s Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. When speaking with people who’ve been misdiagnosed, “one of the things we hear over and over is, ‘The doctor didn’t listen to me.’”
In this context, Jessica Wetz’s practice of carrying a medical binder is both practical and effective. However, while her approach helps manage the situation, it doesn’t address the root issue: the need for doctors to engage more thoughtfully and confront their biases.
In the meantime, if you feel you’re not being treated fairly, don’t stay silent. Speak up, voice your concerns, and if necessary, seek a second opinion. Your health is worth it.
Some viewers noted that in the US, simply getting access to your medical reports is a hurdle in itself
Meanwhile, others praised the idea of a medical binder but said it’s outrageous that it’s even necessary
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Verena 11 months ago
Or, you can have a clearly structured health care system in place where all this is collected in a database and every doctor and hospital can look into it if the need arises. Of course confidential concerns may be a point, but all treatments are recorded anyway.
sturmwesen 11 months ago
While we can controll and fill a binder we can't controll/create a central data base. I will be super happy when the new digital patient file in Germany finally works properly but as long as it doesn't....I have a folder for me (and even one for the dogs. )
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JJ 11 months ago
It's not an American thing. I'm German and have a folder like this with reports, MRI/CT scans, and the like - and still have to discuss with doctors what's written in the reports. (E.g. that I need thromboprophylaxis the minute I twist an ankle or I plan a long journey.)
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quentariel 11 months ago
I'm shocked about your healthcare situation once again. Not because people need to carry binder with them in absence of digital database, but because how they are treated. I've had some rude doctors too here in Finland, but even if they are somewhat unfriendly, they never outright accuse me of lying or completely contradict other doctor's notes. Our healthcare is going downhill too here in Finland, but the basic respect and humanity is still there.
Remi (He/Him) 11 months ago
I've had a doctor order me anti anxiety meds that I'd tried already and had bad side effects from. I tried to point it out but he would not listen and claimed I'd never tried them. This was soon after Helsinki started using the Apotti system and older info was kinda hard to find on it. So I'd say this can happen in Finland too.
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UKDeek 11 months ago
The NHS has system where all patient information is accessible digitally, with an app available for you to see results, discharge letters, etc. It is a fairly recently thing, so a lot of older, paper, records haven't been uploaded, but it's a start!
Carrie Laughs 11 months ago
I'm in UK and when my husband was seriously ill in hospital for pneumonia, exactly this time last year, I could see all of his records being updated (he gave me access) in real time. This included test results as well as d***s given. I wasn't allowed to see him at first (he had influenza A so was in isolation) so it was reassuring seeing things happening (and googling the information so I understood what I was reading!!). I can see all my records - bar some very old stuff as you say. It's extremely useful to have these joined up systems - eg granting access so that people like paramedics can see them. Any unconscious and alone person's medical and medication history woudld be available to them to aid decisions.
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StrangeOne 11 months ago
My daughter paid $50 to transfer clinics, just to have her op clinic not bother with sending her files to the new clinic. After almost 2 months of waiting, I called to get permission to hand deliver her medical files myself. I said I was coming down there. 20 minutes I get there and they don't even have her files photocopies and ready. They were surprised I showed up "so soon". Mama meant business that day. (Yes, my kid is an adult. Yes, she has developmental disabilities.)
Sue User 11 months ago
Because I move around alot, i used to handcarry my records. I gave the binder to a doctor in Portland , Oregon who refused to believe i had auto- immune even though i had a records from John Hopkins in Baltimore saying i had it. They told me this in the waiting room. FYI, John Hopkins is a good hospital that have so many people come from all over the world that they have a dedicated checkin with multilingual workers right in the lobby. I am so done with being dismissed by doctors.
WonderWoman 11 months ago
Lazy Drs who are more of a patient mill than they are actually engaging in health care. Sure we can all lament that their time is taken up with paperwork and they are stretched too thin - but you know what we wouldn't tolerate that from airline pilots or pretty much anyone else. Your JOB is to treat the patient - the WHOLE patient, to listen and not jump to conclusions just to get on to the next person. Your job is to heal and help. If you can't or won't do that - FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! Lives lie in the balance.
Karina 11 months ago
Right now i have mastitis, fever, oain swelling, the works. Because Im on disability, they usually cover my transport to and from doctors. Because I had a change in doctor, i now dont get transport. So i have spent 4 days in pain and fever, instead of getting the help i need, because of some arbitrary rule. I know this is still from a priveledged point of wiev, but this is norway. Where rules now are more important that healtcare. Get they got full of them self hearing everybody around the world brag on them, because they never hear us on the bottom.
Tamra 11 months ago
Oh, I'm very sorry you're going through that. Mastitis is a miserable experience. I really hope you're on the mend soon
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Existing and stuff 11 months ago
I have a binder of all my medical tests and surgeries. They are all in my doctors computer system but I want a copy for myself. Businesses, including hospitals, get hacked often. Personally, I love looking back.
Kenneth Barns 10 months ago (edited)
The main problem with a centralised database (like the Australian "My Health Record"): who curates it? (Given few people have a single main GP, and even if they do, governments initially incentivised uploading _anything_ but did NOT incentivise editing/curation.) It can easily become like a hoarder's home: packed with a mountain of random detritus that takes an impossibly long time to extract any useful information from. So two thumbs up for Ms. Wetz - I ALWAYS appreciate when a patient I see in Emergency with a complicated backstory has taken the time and effort to make that story as coherent as possible!
Deb M.F. 11 months ago
This happened to me the other day when I called to make an appointment and told them I had several things to discuss and she cut me off and told me no only two things!! I'm like WTF??? so the issue with psorias like patches on the back of both my hands will get ignored again and my very very painful trigger finger is again put on the back burner. this is a small part of my medical issues. Tired of the corporate medical system. They do not care!!
Chelsea Bates 11 months ago
I would pay her to do mine. I’m disabled and have the same problem but I don’t I understand any of the medical stuff and wouldn’t know where to start or what to do
Lisette Verkade 10 months ago
I had a pulmonary embolism the size of my fist when I was 17. Got a CT scan every 4 months for 2 years. After 2 years the doctor told me I had 70% lung capacity and there were no meds that could help…he didn’t need to see me again and anticoagulant could be stopped! If he had only told me the embolism wasn’t resolving CTEPH would have been discovered sooner. I was 42 when I finally got diagnosed with CTEPH.
Syris 10 months ago
When I went to a specialist to check if I have Autism, I prepared a several-pages-long Word document, listing each and every symptom I have that matches the diagnostic criteria, with examples and more detailed descriptions how a specific symptom shows in me and in which situations. I sent it to the specialist in advance (I asked if she would like to see it beforehand and she said yes) - I did it because I freaking KNEW that when I enter her office, I will forget EVERYTHING I was going to say xD I tend to go off-topic real fast. And you know what? She laughed (not in a mocking way) and said that the fact that I did such a list is already a strong giveaway that I might be ASD XD And - to nobody's surprise - I'm now officially diagnosed not only with ASD, but also ADHD (my therapist is also ADHD, and she immediately recognized that I'm also ADHD), so yeah, now I know I'm AuADHD and everything suddenly makes sense :D
catastrophegirl 10 months ago (edited)
i have to carry my labs in a folder (done quarterly for multiple chronic illnesses). not all of my docs use mychart. a lot of doctors don't believe in adult onset type 1 diabetes. so i carry my antibody lab results showing antibodies to my pancreatic beta cells. also i have doctors who refuse to review anything on mychart or reports i bring, like the pulmonologist who said that my reduced lung capacity was due to being fat. except the imaging he ordered said my liver and spleen were enlarged and compressing my lungs. and when i pointed out i'd already seen the results he said "i'm not going to look at the imaging results [that he ordered], you're just fat and need to lose weight." and when i showed out i'd lost 16lb and my breathing got worse, he doubled down. a week later my liver doc said "i can see it right here, your organs are enlarged, probably from this ongoing infection that you are being treated for".
Shortstuff 10 months ago
In NZ, ALL hospital results are sent to your family doctor. All online. I can access results online. I have a wonderful female GP who listens and won't prescribe d***s until all other avenues have been tried. I've had awful experiences with some male Dr's. If you are male you are listened to. If you are female, it's psychological.
Alistair .Brownlee 10 months ago (edited)
Except then you get some stickler who insists on getting the report directly from the doctor who did the thing, they wont take the report from you. Had that happen plenty of times.🙄
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 11 months ago
Regardless of how well put together your healthcare system is, your healthcare is yours to own so own it. You are the biggest advocate for yourself. A binder might be a bit much for many, but keep your results and letters. The brilliant work of doctors brought me through devastating illness and more recently help with chronic conditions. They are great. But I still have a record of everything that was done to me, every test, scan, visit.
Nitka Tsar 11 months ago
Sooooo…….. she would have had to wait 6 weeks for simple blood works and 1 month for an ultrasound? Wow, thats long. I wonder why though. When I had my blood tested for vitamin D deficiency and other stuff, it took only 3 days. An ultrasound is done on the same day. „Socialism“ for the win I guess
Li Morrisette 11 months ago
I am impressed you even get appointments. It’s months to get AN appointment for anything where I am in the US let alone multiple to do all that. Plus like many people I have a high deductible so it’s 12K out of pocket. Not going to doctor unless it critical injury or by ambulance. Even ER short ambulance its 4+ hour wait. My spouse spent a day in ER with a broken hip before getting real medical help with surgery since they had to wait to find any hospital beds.
A girl 11 months ago
I always see the same doctor at the same clinic. For referrals, I authorize the provider to send results to my primary. I've never experienced the phenomenon of "wasting my time". Yes, I'm American. I had my annual mammogram yesterday and was able to review the results this morning. All ok btw
Eunice Probert 11 months ago
We have medical records in the UK, but it's not perfect. The results of my annual retinopathy are not sent to my opticians, and the results of my cataract surgeries were not sent to the GP. And my GP does not know that I have macular degeneration, because optician's records are not sent on. It's ridiculous.
Chris Jones 11 months ago
That's primarily an issue due to opticians and any private eye-care not being part of the NHS. Eye care isn't part of universal health care in a lot of countries. Didn't your optician provide you with information to pass to your GP? Mine always has, though admittedly nothing recently so maybe that's changed. Ask for it for yourself. Don't understand why your cataract surgery info wasn't sent to your GP, my friend just went through all of that and it all worked pretty seamlessly.
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Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen 11 months ago
We have a computer data base here that covers hospital admissions, scripts, lab results and discharge records. Of course you can opt out if you want but it means that a glance Drs will know your test result history including bloods, X-rays, cat scans etc and what medication your on and if you were at a hospital recently, any discharge meds. Even all the chemists have a data base of what’s been prescribed and dispensed. It’s also handy to prevent people from Dr shopping.
LB 11 months ago
Generally against Tic Toc posts, but this was actually interesting to watch. I don't currently need a binder like this, but I do keep all of the 'medical letters' that my providers send to my GP or each other on my computer. I'm just glad I have a super nice/competent cardiologist now, when the one before couldn't be bothered to read my history before starting the consultation and was just like: ok, tell me what you're here for. Like, autistic nightmaaaaaare :( why don't *you* tell me what I'm here for, you're the goddamn doctor.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
From the top picture I thought it was an ad for an Only Fans at first
Gozer LeGozerian 11 months ago
You need to get your head out of the gutter. Women don't exist solely as objects for sexual pleasure. Gross.
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Zitronella 11 months ago
Young people like this who have one exam after another and for all whining waste the time of the doctors. If someone comes to me with such a large folder and is so young, the alarm bells are already ringing. If the person is chronically ill, such a folder is very helpful to avoid double examinations and get an overview. Everyone else at that age, who in the end only ever receive normal findings from such expensive and elaborate examinations, has a completely different problem. I estimate that 40% of my working time is lost because people who have nothing somatically run to the doctor permanently.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 11 months ago
It's so funny how you prove her point exactly by assuming that she's a hysterical hypochondriac.
Load More Replies... Verena 11 months ago
Or, you can have a clearly structured health care system in place where all this is collected in a database and every doctor and hospital can look into it if the need arises. Of course confidential concerns may be a point, but all treatments are recorded anyway.
sturmwesen 11 months ago
While we can controll and fill a binder we can't controll/create a central data base. I will be super happy when the new digital patient file in Germany finally works properly but as long as it doesn't....I have a folder for me (and even one for the dogs. )
Load More Replies... JJ 11 months ago
It's not an American thing. I'm German and have a folder like this with reports, MRI/CT scans, and the like - and still have to discuss with doctors what's written in the reports. (E.g. that I need thromboprophylaxis the minute I twist an ankle or I plan a long journey.)
Load More Replies... quentariel 11 months ago
I'm shocked about your healthcare situation once again. Not because people need to carry binder with them in absence of digital database, but because how they are treated. I've had some rude doctors too here in Finland, but even if they are somewhat unfriendly, they never outright accuse me of lying or completely contradict other doctor's notes. Our healthcare is going downhill too here in Finland, but the basic respect and humanity is still there.
Remi (He/Him) 11 months ago
I've had a doctor order me anti anxiety meds that I'd tried already and had bad side effects from. I tried to point it out but he would not listen and claimed I'd never tried them. This was soon after Helsinki started using the Apotti system and older info was kinda hard to find on it. So I'd say this can happen in Finland too.
Load More Replies... UKDeek 11 months ago
The NHS has system where all patient information is accessible digitally, with an app available for you to see results, discharge letters, etc. It is a fairly recently thing, so a lot of older, paper, records haven't been uploaded, but it's a start!
Carrie Laughs 11 months ago
I'm in UK and when my husband was seriously ill in hospital for pneumonia, exactly this time last year, I could see all of his records being updated (he gave me access) in real time. This included test results as well as d***s given. I wasn't allowed to see him at first (he had influenza A so was in isolation) so it was reassuring seeing things happening (and googling the information so I understood what I was reading!!). I can see all my records - bar some very old stuff as you say. It's extremely useful to have these joined up systems - eg granting access so that people like paramedics can see them. Any unconscious and alone person's medical and medication history woudld be available to them to aid decisions.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 11 months ago
My daughter paid $50 to transfer clinics, just to have her op clinic not bother with sending her files to the new clinic. After almost 2 months of waiting, I called to get permission to hand deliver her medical files myself. I said I was coming down there. 20 minutes I get there and they don't even have her files photocopies and ready. They were surprised I showed up "so soon". Mama meant business that day. (Yes, my kid is an adult. Yes, she has developmental disabilities.)
Sue User 11 months ago
Because I move around alot, i used to handcarry my records. I gave the binder to a doctor in Portland , Oregon who refused to believe i had auto- immune even though i had a records from John Hopkins in Baltimore saying i had it. They told me this in the waiting room. FYI, John Hopkins is a good hospital that have so many people come from all over the world that they have a dedicated checkin with multilingual workers right in the lobby. I am so done with being dismissed by doctors.
WonderWoman 11 months ago
Lazy Drs who are more of a patient mill than they are actually engaging in health care. Sure we can all lament that their time is taken up with paperwork and they are stretched too thin - but you know what we wouldn't tolerate that from airline pilots or pretty much anyone else. Your JOB is to treat the patient - the WHOLE patient, to listen and not jump to conclusions just to get on to the next person. Your job is to heal and help. If you can't or won't do that - FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! Lives lie in the balance.
Karina 11 months ago
Right now i have mastitis, fever, oain swelling, the works. Because Im on disability, they usually cover my transport to and from doctors. Because I had a change in doctor, i now dont get transport. So i have spent 4 days in pain and fever, instead of getting the help i need, because of some arbitrary rule. I know this is still from a priveledged point of wiev, but this is norway. Where rules now are more important that healtcare. Get they got full of them self hearing everybody around the world brag on them, because they never hear us on the bottom.
Tamra 11 months ago
Oh, I'm very sorry you're going through that. Mastitis is a miserable experience. I really hope you're on the mend soon
Load More Replies... Existing and stuff 11 months ago
I have a binder of all my medical tests and surgeries. They are all in my doctors computer system but I want a copy for myself. Businesses, including hospitals, get hacked often. Personally, I love looking back.
Kenneth Barns 10 months ago (edited)
The main problem with a centralised database (like the Australian "My Health Record"): who curates it? (Given few people have a single main GP, and even if they do, governments initially incentivised uploading _anything_ but did NOT incentivise editing/curation.) It can easily become like a hoarder's home: packed with a mountain of random detritus that takes an impossibly long time to extract any useful information from. So two thumbs up for Ms. Wetz - I ALWAYS appreciate when a patient I see in Emergency with a complicated backstory has taken the time and effort to make that story as coherent as possible!
Deb M.F. 11 months ago
This happened to me the other day when I called to make an appointment and told them I had several things to discuss and she cut me off and told me no only two things!! I'm like WTF??? so the issue with psorias like patches on the back of both my hands will get ignored again and my very very painful trigger finger is again put on the back burner. this is a small part of my medical issues. Tired of the corporate medical system. They do not care!!
Chelsea Bates 11 months ago
I would pay her to do mine. I’m disabled and have the same problem but I don’t I understand any of the medical stuff and wouldn’t know where to start or what to do
Lisette Verkade 10 months ago
I had a pulmonary embolism the size of my fist when I was 17. Got a CT scan every 4 months for 2 years. After 2 years the doctor told me I had 70% lung capacity and there were no meds that could help…he didn’t need to see me again and anticoagulant could be stopped! If he had only told me the embolism wasn’t resolving CTEPH would have been discovered sooner. I was 42 when I finally got diagnosed with CTEPH.
Syris 10 months ago
When I went to a specialist to check if I have Autism, I prepared a several-pages-long Word document, listing each and every symptom I have that matches the diagnostic criteria, with examples and more detailed descriptions how a specific symptom shows in me and in which situations. I sent it to the specialist in advance (I asked if she would like to see it beforehand and she said yes) - I did it because I freaking KNEW that when I enter her office, I will forget EVERYTHING I was going to say xD I tend to go off-topic real fast. And you know what? She laughed (not in a mocking way) and said that the fact that I did such a list is already a strong giveaway that I might be ASD XD And - to nobody's surprise - I'm now officially diagnosed not only with ASD, but also ADHD (my therapist is also ADHD, and she immediately recognized that I'm also ADHD), so yeah, now I know I'm AuADHD and everything suddenly makes sense :D
catastrophegirl 10 months ago (edited)
i have to carry my labs in a folder (done quarterly for multiple chronic illnesses). not all of my docs use mychart. a lot of doctors don't believe in adult onset type 1 diabetes. so i carry my antibody lab results showing antibodies to my pancreatic beta cells. also i have doctors who refuse to review anything on mychart or reports i bring, like the pulmonologist who said that my reduced lung capacity was due to being fat. except the imaging he ordered said my liver and spleen were enlarged and compressing my lungs. and when i pointed out i'd already seen the results he said "i'm not going to look at the imaging results [that he ordered], you're just fat and need to lose weight." and when i showed out i'd lost 16lb and my breathing got worse, he doubled down. a week later my liver doc said "i can see it right here, your organs are enlarged, probably from this ongoing infection that you are being treated for".
Shortstuff 10 months ago
In NZ, ALL hospital results are sent to your family doctor. All online. I can access results online. I have a wonderful female GP who listens and won't prescribe d***s until all other avenues have been tried. I've had awful experiences with some male Dr's. If you are male you are listened to. If you are female, it's psychological.
Alistair .Brownlee 10 months ago (edited)
Except then you get some stickler who insists on getting the report directly from the doctor who did the thing, they wont take the report from you. Had that happen plenty of times.🙄
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 11 months ago
Regardless of how well put together your healthcare system is, your healthcare is yours to own so own it. You are the biggest advocate for yourself. A binder might be a bit much for many, but keep your results and letters. The brilliant work of doctors brought me through devastating illness and more recently help with chronic conditions. They are great. But I still have a record of everything that was done to me, every test, scan, visit.
Nitka Tsar 11 months ago
Sooooo…….. she would have had to wait 6 weeks for simple blood works and 1 month for an ultrasound? Wow, thats long. I wonder why though. When I had my blood tested for vitamin D deficiency and other stuff, it took only 3 days. An ultrasound is done on the same day. „Socialism“ for the win I guess
Li Morrisette 11 months ago
I am impressed you even get appointments. It’s months to get AN appointment for anything where I am in the US let alone multiple to do all that. Plus like many people I have a high deductible so it’s 12K out of pocket. Not going to doctor unless it critical injury or by ambulance. Even ER short ambulance its 4+ hour wait. My spouse spent a day in ER with a broken hip before getting real medical help with surgery since they had to wait to find any hospital beds.
A girl 11 months ago
I always see the same doctor at the same clinic. For referrals, I authorize the provider to send results to my primary. I've never experienced the phenomenon of "wasting my time". Yes, I'm American. I had my annual mammogram yesterday and was able to review the results this morning. All ok btw
Eunice Probert 11 months ago
We have medical records in the UK, but it's not perfect. The results of my annual retinopathy are not sent to my opticians, and the results of my cataract surgeries were not sent to the GP. And my GP does not know that I have macular degeneration, because optician's records are not sent on. It's ridiculous.
Chris Jones 11 months ago
That's primarily an issue due to opticians and any private eye-care not being part of the NHS. Eye care isn't part of universal health care in a lot of countries. Didn't your optician provide you with information to pass to your GP? Mine always has, though admittedly nothing recently so maybe that's changed. Ask for it for yourself. Don't understand why your cataract surgery info wasn't sent to your GP, my friend just went through all of that and it all worked pretty seamlessly.
Load More Replies... Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen 11 months ago
We have a computer data base here that covers hospital admissions, scripts, lab results and discharge records. Of course you can opt out if you want but it means that a glance Drs will know your test result history including bloods, X-rays, cat scans etc and what medication your on and if you were at a hospital recently, any discharge meds. Even all the chemists have a data base of what’s been prescribed and dispensed. It’s also handy to prevent people from Dr shopping.
LB 11 months ago
Generally against Tic Toc posts, but this was actually interesting to watch. I don't currently need a binder like this, but I do keep all of the 'medical letters' that my providers send to my GP or each other on my computer. I'm just glad I have a super nice/competent cardiologist now, when the one before couldn't be bothered to read my history before starting the consultation and was just like: ok, tell me what you're here for. Like, autistic nightmaaaaaare :( why don't *you* tell me what I'm here for, you're the goddamn doctor.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
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Gozer LeGozerian 11 months ago
You need to get your head out of the gutter. Women don't exist solely as objects for sexual pleasure. Gross.
Load More Replies... Zitronella 11 months ago
Young people like this who have one exam after another and for all whining waste the time of the doctors. If someone comes to me with such a large folder and is so young, the alarm bells are already ringing. If the person is chronically ill, such a folder is very helpful to avoid double examinations and get an overview. Everyone else at that age, who in the end only ever receive normal findings from such expensive and elaborate examinations, has a completely different problem. I estimate that 40% of my working time is lost because people who have nothing somatically run to the doctor permanently.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 11 months ago
It's so funny how you prove her point exactly by assuming that she's a hysterical hypochondriac.
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