I'm filling out my pre-appointment questionnaire for my yearly physical. It wants to know if I have "history of cholesterol" or "history of thyroid." Who wrote this thing?
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
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Hil R. - Sep 27, 2016 4:40:34 pm PDT #26585 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - Sep 27, 2016 4:42:10 pm PDT #26586 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hey, I got to a section where I don't need to check off anything! I have had none of these surgeries! I don't even know what a few of them are. What's T&A, other than in the "Dance 10, Looks 3" sense, because that can't be what they mean?
Dana - Sep 27, 2016 4:43:36 pm PDT #26587 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
HA.
I'm trying to envision what not having a history of cholesterol would look like.
Hil R. - Sep 27, 2016 4:44:52 pm PDT #26588 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My options for "Sexually active?" are "Yes," "No," and "Not currently." Those are not mutually exclusive choices.
Hil R. - Sep 27, 2016 4:46:23 pm PDT #26589 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Seriously, who came up with this form? There's a section where you have to enter the names of all your immediate family members, and then check off whether any of them have a history of various things. One of the things on the list is "Adoption."
JZ - Sep 27, 2016 5:01:19 pm PDT #26590 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hil, tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy.
Hil R. - Sep 27, 2016 5:03:23 pm PDT #26591 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy.
Thanks! (My doctor has told me that, if I was born a couple decades earlier, I would have had that done by the time I was about six, but when I was a kid, the general thought was "We've been removing too many tonsils for no reason, so let's stop doing that," and they wouldn't remove tonsils unless they got infected something like four times within a year, and I never had more than three times.)
Steph L. - Sep 27, 2016 5:04:35 pm PDT #26592 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What's T&A
Tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy. #medicaleditor t edit #ButTooSlow
It wants to know if I have "history of cholesterol"
Can you write in "I had a Denny's Moons Over My Hammy this morning"? Because I would.
meara - Sep 27, 2016 5:22:09 pm PDT #26593 of 30002
Hah. That reminds me of when people enter abnormal lab values as adverse events in my studies. And instead of like, specifying that it's hypercholesterolemia or whatever, they just put "cholesterol" or "white blood cells" and I have to say "so, 'white blood cells' by themselves are not actually a PROBLEM?"
NoiseDesign - Sep 27, 2016 10:33:31 pm PDT #26594 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
There's a section where you have to enter the names of all your immediate family members, and then check off whether any of them have a history of various things. One of the things on the list is "Adoption."
As someone who is adopted I actually appreciate it when this is listed as an option. I have to deal with far too many forms that ask all sorts of family medical history questions with no option to explain that I have no way of knowing, so I just end up drawing a big X through all of it and writing adopted across the whole thing.