Post by joebill on Dec 13, 2023 3:03:59 GMT
Since this is the junk drawer, I have another tidbit that really belongs here and likely noplace else.
Y'know how your doc likes to order tests that are pretty obviously not needed except to round out his/her profit picture? Well, I found a way out of at least one of them for good.
I got a pretty specific shoulder pain that has been with me for more than a year, and the specialists who deal with that stuff for me do a pretty fair job with their injections, so I decided to let them have a crack at at it couple of months ago, but they said I needed an MRI to check to see if there was an infection first.....seriously? an infection that has stuck with me for over a year despite rounds of antibiotics? If it had been a blood test I would have caved, but I have a serious problem crawling down that hole with the top casket-close to my eyes and holding still. I already had to quit in the middle of one because I could not hold still and hyperventilate at the same time, and the next one they had to shoot me up with something to get me through it. To me, this one was clearly just a chance to pad the bill and I should not object because medicare was paying, but I knew it was not going to happen, and just wanted the injections without having to go through that again.
Anyhow, I showed up for the test, but told the lab gals that there might just be a problem. They said it might take up to 30 minutes and I scrunched up my eyes and told them;
"Well that might be a problem, and if it turns out to be a problem it will be just too late to solve it as soon as it happens."
I told them I had been having a bad problem with very loose stools and almost no warning over the past months, and if it happened when I was in that tube, I simply did not know how they would ever got it clean and odor free again, and "ain't those things awful expensive to replace?"
Right aaway, they had me back in my jeans and shirt and out the door, and they proceeded with the injections with no further mention of an MRI.
FUNNY how the mandatory can become unimportant when it can turn into a mess for the folks in charge, right?
It was all a piece of fiction on my part, but I would gladly do it again just for the laughs on down the road.....Joe
Y'know how your doc likes to order tests that are pretty obviously not needed except to round out his/her profit picture? Well, I found a way out of at least one of them for good.
I got a pretty specific shoulder pain that has been with me for more than a year, and the specialists who deal with that stuff for me do a pretty fair job with their injections, so I decided to let them have a crack at at it couple of months ago, but they said I needed an MRI to check to see if there was an infection first.....seriously? an infection that has stuck with me for over a year despite rounds of antibiotics? If it had been a blood test I would have caved, but I have a serious problem crawling down that hole with the top casket-close to my eyes and holding still. I already had to quit in the middle of one because I could not hold still and hyperventilate at the same time, and the next one they had to shoot me up with something to get me through it. To me, this one was clearly just a chance to pad the bill and I should not object because medicare was paying, but I knew it was not going to happen, and just wanted the injections without having to go through that again.
Anyhow, I showed up for the test, but told the lab gals that there might just be a problem. They said it might take up to 30 minutes and I scrunched up my eyes and told them;
"Well that might be a problem, and if it turns out to be a problem it will be just too late to solve it as soon as it happens."
I told them I had been having a bad problem with very loose stools and almost no warning over the past months, and if it happened when I was in that tube, I simply did not know how they would ever got it clean and odor free again, and "ain't those things awful expensive to replace?"
Right aaway, they had me back in my jeans and shirt and out the door, and they proceeded with the injections with no further mention of an MRI.
FUNNY how the mandatory can become unimportant when it can turn into a mess for the folks in charge, right?
It was all a piece of fiction on my part, but I would gladly do it again just for the laughs on down the road.....Joe