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Sitting in the hospital right now
Donkey_Kong:
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--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 04, 2007, 09:33:58 am ---When it comes to your job, it's all about your direct manager. If he is a decent guy, he'll help you through the workplace situation. If he's not, you could easily end up unemployed quickly.
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My direct supervisor is awesome. He will be the design manager as soon as the current one retires in a year or two. Well, he unofficially is already to tell the truth.
Now for an update:
Michelle was released yesterday. I'm sure they'll readmit her again next week though, so I won't get too excited. The doctor that was there also discovered she tested positive for another blood clotting disorder that NOONE HAS EVER TOLD HER ABOUT! This is the reason I hate hospitals and doctors- there is always extremely poor communication on every front. She was apparently supposed to be taking alot of extra folic acid this whole time due to the new disorder, and she hasn't been. Needless to say, I am quite pissed off.
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I would be pissst too, but maybe the best thing might be to harness that anger though for now, and shoot for the resolve at this time bud! You guys will get through it!!
shardian:
No, they ran these tests back before she got pregnant when we first went to the high risk clinic. The results take like 2-3 weeks to get back. Noone ever told us what the results were - I had to ask a nurse and she gave me a copy of the results. It read like gibberish to me. At our next appointment - which was a month later of course- we asked the doc. He took out the results and said "You have the x disorder".
Now the resident who was working yesterday said to Michelle, "So you have x & y disorders." Michelle said " No, I only have the "x" disorder". He went back to look at the file and told her she did have both and she needed to make sure her normal doctors office made note of it. Apparently everyone assumed Michelle knew and was already taking Folic acid...except for the fact it was never prescribed, and they never mentioned it whatsover to verify she was keeping up with her meds.
They also kept telling her she had a classical incision from the first c-section. We kept telling them no, it was the one that allowed a VBAC. Finally in the hospital 2 weeks ago, Michelle talked to a doctor that was assisting in Riley's delivery, and she verified we were right. Finally, they looked at the original dictations of the first delivery and verified we were right. It felt good to know we were right, but the BAD news was that our doctor said he had reviewed the records of Riley's delivery.
Anyways, I think we will switch to the other specialist in the office now. I didn't have a problem with our doctor being a cocky bastard. I do have a problem with him being overly-cocky and missing possibly important details.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on January 04, 2007, 11:29:16 am ---Anyways, I think we will switch to the other specialist in the office now. I didn't have a problem with our doctor being a cocky bastard. I do have a problem with him being overly-cocky and missing possibly important details.
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Good idea. Do it quickly, too.
In my experience, women always make better OB/GYN/other female specific specialities. They just understand more and care more.
shardian:
The other specialist is an old indian woman. Everyone told us she was really mean. We have seen her once in the office, and she watched over Michelle all last week. True, she is loud and says whatever pops into her mind without hesitation, but we liked her. I just wonder if we could switch to her for the last few weeks of the pregnancy.
ChadTower:
It is mostly up to her if she wants to accept you as a patient with the steep urgent learning curve.
If you mean Indian as in from India, part of that is just culture gap. She would be as much authority figure as doctor in her own culture and may be prone to what we would consider condescension. In her culture, she is there to help you and you are answerable to her. In ours, she is working for you and answerable to you. It is easy for the two concepts to be at direct odds.
That said, in India, it is far more culturally difficult for a woman to get to that level than a man. It is less so than it used to be but it may say something about her abilities that she is where she is in her field.