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Colonoscopy 2.0 and skirts

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ScriptOhio said:
OK, I survived my colonoscopy this AM. It's probably a good thing that I had one too; the doctor said he found (and removed) 2 small polyps.

Bump: (If you are due for one) As reminder to schedule your colonoscopy.

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I had one a few weeks ago. Got some good drugs, one small polyp less than 1mm, and I don't have to go back for 7 years.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
Did have a colonoscopy but went to the doctor today. When did they start calling the providers instead of doctors? In a lot of business now they stopped saying manager and call them team leaders. Crazy.
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A "provider" doesn't have to be an actual "doctor". The term was adopted by federal law in the early 1970s and by its definition can include everyone from a doctor of medicine or osteopathy to a nurse practitioner or clinical social worker. Some people in the medical profession don't like it either.

www.ama-assn.org

This health system says calling physicians “providers” is not OK

Delaware’s Bayhealth system says the term minimizes physician training, undermines the patient-doctor relationship, and can even exacerbate burnout.
www.ama-assn.org www.ama-assn.org

This health system says calling physicians “providers” is not OK​

Generic term belittles training​

Many think the term “belittles” the education and training required to become a physician, Dr. Vaughan said.

The AMA House of Delegates agrees. It adopted policy that considers the generic term “provider" as “inadequate to describe the extensive education and qualifications of physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its branches.”

Similarly, the AMA also has policy urging “all physicians to insist on being identified as a physician, to sign only those professional or medical documents identifying them as physicians, and to not let the term physician be used by any other organization or person involved in health care.”

The policy also calls for ensuring that “all references to physicians by government, payers, and other health care entities involving contracts, advertising, agreements, published descriptions, and other communications at all times distinguish between physician … and nonphysicians, and to discontinue the use of the term ‘provider.’”

“Calling medical doctors ‘providers’ does more than inflict moral injury,” says a Bayhealth presentation Dr. Vaughan uses when speaking to health system staff. “It reduces morale, worth, purpose, and results in already overworked doctors finding less meaning in the work that they do. The word ‘provider’ comes between doctors and their patients, thus chipping away the joy in practice.”
 
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ScriptOhio said:
A "provider" doesn't have to be an actual "doctor". The term was adopted by federal law in the early 1970s and by its definition can include everyone from a doctor of medicine or osteopathy to a nurse practitioner or clinical social worker. Some people in the medical profession don't like it either.

www.ama-assn.org

This health system says calling physicians “providers” is not OK

Delaware’s Bayhealth system says the term minimizes physician training, undermines the patient-doctor relationship, and can even exacerbate burnout.
www.ama-assn.org www.ama-assn.org

This health system says calling physicians “providers” is not OK​

Generic term belittles training​

Many think the term “belittles” the education and training required to become a physician, Dr. Vaughan said.

The AMA House of Delegates agrees. It adopted policy that considers the generic term “provider" as “inadequate to describe the extensive education and qualifications of physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its branches.”

Similarly, the AMA also has policy urging “all physicians to insist on being identified as a physician, to sign only those professional or medical documents identifying them as physicians, and to not let the term physician be used by any other organization or person involved in health care.”

The policy also calls for ensuring that “all references to physicians by government, payers, and other health care entities involving contracts, advertising, agreements, published descriptions, and other communications at all times distinguish between physician … and nonphysicians, and to discontinue the use of the term ‘provider.’”

“Calling medical doctors ‘providers’ does more than inflict moral injury,” says a Bayhealth presentation Dr. Vaughan uses when speaking to health system staff. “It reduces morale, worth, purpose, and results in already overworked doctors finding less meaning in the work that they do. The word ‘provider’ comes between doctors and their patients, thus chipping away the joy in practice.”
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Yesterday I went to urgent care for some blood pressure issues. I had gone their a year ago and they had a doctor. Now it's staffed by a RN. I had noticed early on that she was referred to as my "provider". She did an EKG and referred me to the ER because she said she saw some irregularities. I went to the ER and had a real doctor and he was also referred to as my provider. This guy was head and shoulders above my RN. First of all he said my EKG was normal, they did a chest X ray and my heart looked great, said I show no signs of heart disease and it tested negative for the enzyme that causes heart disease. I'm going to see a cardiologist later today but I'll like get an endoscopy next as my doctor thinks my blood pressure issues is likely due to something going on in my stomach or esophagus.
 
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I know this is a colonoscopy thread I figured it could double as a medical thread. I went for a nuclear stress test on my heart today. I thought they were going to put me on the treadmill but there's a new technology out. They lay you down, hook you up and then inject a drug that makes your body thinks it's exercising. You're laying there then suddenly you feel like you're sprinting up a hill for two minutes. I think I would prefer the treadmill.
 
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Got my results for all of my heart tests, stress test, echo cardiogram, vein mapping in my legs. My heart is in excellent structural and functional shape, doc say I have very minimal risk of heart disease. However I have some reflux disease in my legs that's going to need to be watched. Nothing major though so I'm good.
 
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Thump said:
That’s insane!

My pops is going in for one in January.

So great to hear how well you are recovering!
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Thank you! I assume your dad has a surgeon who specializes in the anterior approach? That’s the difference maker. They cut the front of the thigh to get at the joint. Doing so allows them to remove the femeral head inside the body without cutting muscle and tendons. I walked 2 hours after surgery and was fully weight bearing.
I hope and pray that your dad’s surgery goes as well as it possibly can go!
 
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Honor&Glory said:
Thank you! I assume your dad has a surgeon who specializes in the anterior approach? That’s the difference maker. They cut the front of the thigh to get at the joint. Doing so allows them to remove the femeral head inside the body without cutting muscle and tendons. I walked 2 hours after surgery and was fully weight bearing.
I hope and pray that your dad’s surgery goes as well as it possibly can go!
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I am unsure of the method being used.
 
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