General Medical issues thread

[VPS]

Have been at the hospital for follow up on elbow for over an hour. Have yet to see anyone. Just been bounced around 4 different reception areas.

Went to the main outpatient clinic reception. They sent me to registrar review. 40 mins in that line and then sent to fracture (where outpatients should have sent me), then got sent to imaging.

Now had xrays and waiting in fracture clinic for the doctor.

That would have annoyed your boss and might have been worth it

 

[kookaburra75]

Have been at the hospital for follow up on elbow for over an hour. Have yet to see anyone. Just been bounced around 4 different reception areas.

Went to the main outpatient clinic reception. They sent me to registrar review. 40 mins in that line and then sent to fracture (where outpatients should have sent me), then got sent to imaging.

Now had xrays and waiting in fracture clinic for the doctor.

Understand what you're going through. MrsK broke her wrist before Christmas and we went through the shuffle around the place. The outcome from her treatment, including getting a plate in her wrist, was excellent and the care was great.

 

[Katie]

Had a procedure on Monday afternoon and spent the night in hospital; specialist normally recommends that for this procedure. With the joy of day surgery and fasting from 8am, not going in for the op until 4:30 or so, I was up in the ward after 7. The anaesthetologist came to visit sometime after and luckily rustled up some dinner for me, so I finally ate at about 8:15pm.

The admissions nurse was so worried about taping a non-removable piercing (sensitivity to adhesives), I've been slightly amused to discover my main adhesive issue was with one of the heart monitor thingos the anaesthetic nurse put on my ribcage. And they didn't bother taping the piercing in the theatre. She was also insistent that I not try to go to the loo alone after getting back to the ward; I buzzed the nurse to ask to go to the loo, she unplugged me from the drip and oxygen, opened the door, lifted the loo lid and pointed at the buzzer if I had issues.

FIL fell over going to the loo in hospital back in August, delaying his return home by at least a week. I think in the end he "just" bruised his ribs, but he was bloody sore afterwards. I may be more mobile than an 85yo in heart failure, but it reminded me of the last time I was in hospital overnight (when the Teen was born 19 years ago) and getting different directions from the nursing staff.
Actually, not just nurses, my specialist and the anaesthetist gave me different fasting advice; I followed the anaesthetist's as he let me have clear fluids until just before arrriving at hospital.

I doubled down on medical treatment and had a cortisone injection in my hip on Weds. I regretted that on Thursday, maybe it was too big a week of medical things, but good to just get it done.

 

[Pushka]

Have been at the hospital for follow up on elbow for over an hour. Have yet to see anyone. Just been bounced around 4 different reception areas.

Went to the main outpatient clinic reception. They sent me to registrar review. 40 mins in that line and then sent to fracture (where outpatients should have sent me), then got sent to imaging.

Now had xrays and waiting in fracture clinic for the doctor.

In some ways it's a shame your boss wasn't treated to all the delays! Might make him rethink his demands in future.

 

[tgh]

Semaglutide in the news but wait..there is more… never let truth impede a good story ?

From the Australian today :
Taking semaglutide, which is sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, was found to reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems such as a stroke or heart attack by 20 per cent.
New research, led by University College London and published in The Lancet, found that weight loss accounted for only one third of this reduction, meaning that the drugs also act directly to prevent heart disease.
Experts said the “profound” findings showed that the drugs should not be restricted to severely obese patients, and suggested that the average Briton would benefit from taking them.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medical/weightloss-jabs-reduce-risk-of-heart-attacks-regardless-of-weight/news-story/1a544eb60ba9bbfc10d15cc1b4af22a5

Increased vision impairment reports linked to semaglutide: analysis of FDA adverse event data - BMC Medicine

Background Semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist widely prescribed for type 2 diabetes and obesity, has recently raised concerns about its ocular safety. This study aimed to investigate the association between semaglutide use and vision impairment using data from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting...

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com

 

[Himeno]

That would have annoyed your boss and might have been worth it

He wasn't there. He did get some "good" news though.

Got a message from my line manager/ASM just as I left the hospital to check up how things were going and he relayed the news to the store manager.
Last week the ED doctor said 2 days off, arm in sling then 2 weeks of light duties with no weight through broken arm while waiting Orthopaedic review.

Orthopaedic doctor said no work until 6 weeks after injury (another 5 weeks), then 5kg lift limit for 6 more weeks. After seeing the doctor, they moved me over to physio to get some exercises to do.

I showed the doctor the paperwork the work systems spat out yesterday (recovery plan). He looked at it, said "I don't know what I'm meant to do with this", then just wrote the medical certificate with the time off and light duty limits like he normally would.

Went into work to give them the paperwork. Store manager said to fill in the workers comp paperwork (which he had been trying to avoid), only for me to note that I had already filled in most of the form yesterday and he was just handing me the form that I had printed out and put on his desk.
All that was left was to sign said form. He then asked when I have to go see them again and when the physio appointment is.
I don't have to see the specialist again unless something happens to the arm, and the physio is exercises to do at home.
I'm not going to tell him about the GP appointment, which I made before the arm injury when the GP auto call back system started bugging me about seeing him after they got the hospital report following my ED visit for post viral cough.

In some ways it's a shame your boss wasn't treated to all the delays! Might make him rethink his demands in future.

I'm thinking of contacting the "Team Experience Partner" (HR) and "InjuryCare Partner" for the zone about his repeated desire to attend medical appointments with staff. I know of at least 2 other staff members he has said he needed to go with them to their appointments. I think he did go for one of them. The other has avoided it by saying their case manager was going.
Store > Group (8-11 stores per group) > Zone (3-5 groups per zone). The "Team Experience Partner" and "InjuryCare Partner" work with the Zone manager, the bosses, bosses boss.

 

[RooFlyer]

Experts said the “profound” findings showed that the drugs should not be restricted to severely obese patients, and suggested that the average Briton would benefit from taking them.

Semaglutide was developed as a treatment for diabetes. The weight loss benefit was only recognise later. For awhile GPs could not prescribe it for weight loss but that’s changing now - I’m not sure if the limitation has been done away with, but my GP said he didn’t have a problem with it.

My cardiologist said sometime ago that this stuff will be the new statin. I know some people have problems with statin in particular but just a “universal“ drug that you will take just to help prevent bad things from happening. Yes, I know that’s the lazy way out but it still would be good to prevent a lot of ill health.

Yes, I know that’s the easy way out but it would be good to prevent a lot of ill health.

I just wish they’d put Mounjaro on the PBS. $400/month