"Dr. Google and multiple medical opinions..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #340)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                       Sunrise/Weather Photos, September- 2022

               These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

   Blog #2094~Kimo's world #340                                          Dr. Google and multiple medical opinions

 Everyone has heard

to always get a second opinion.

I’m here to tell you the more opinions you get the more confused you will be when concerning your health or that surgery you're contemplating.

I recently not only had a second opinion, but a third opinion then decided to go one step further with alternative medicine and was even more confused. Every opinion I got was conflicting.

Where do I turn? Dr. Google? Most PCPs and specialists dislike when their patients turn to Google.

Your doctor may have graduated and interned 20 years ago whereas Google is updated 24-7 seven days a week on all kinds of information from celebrity gossip, sports, and vital medical information. 

Why do doctors frown on Google? They want your business, and your money and do not

want to be outsmarted by a search engine after spending thousands of dollars and time on med school. The doctors will tell you much of the info is false and listed by quacks. This may be true, but it is there for us to decipher. There are also doctors that are great and those that are quacks, it is for us to interpret.

Just a reminder, it's easy, simple, and costs nothing to type into the Google search engine

and ask any question you would ask a doctor.

Whenever I have a question about my medical health I turn to Dr. Google, and sometimes I even ask Siri.

Another thing to remember it's like changing your answer on a final exam. When confused,

they say 95% of the time your first answer was the correct answer. Therefore I have found my first doctor in almost every case I have gotten multiple opinions wound up being my final choice and even more trusted than Google.

The main thing is to stay healthy; a healthy diet is essential.

The current trend these

days is to have plant-based food. Fast food restaurants even have plant-based burgers and chicken.  Panda Express now has its famous orange chicken in a plant-based veggie style format made out of beets called "Beyond Chicken"  and Burger King has its world-famous Whopper called the "Impossible Whopper" made out of soy protein. 

This got me thinking why

Impossible Whopper!

not invent meats that taste like vegetables? A hamburger that tastes like mushrooms and calls it "Impossible mushrooms" or chicken that tastes like Kayle and call it "Beyond Kayle?"(LOL)

Bottom line;

Follow your gut,

Beyond Chicken!

follow your instinct, and as the expression goes;

“Grasshopper heal thyself.”

Getting old may not be fun, but keeps you on your toes and sure is funny that is if you can remember what you've done!

This blog also appeared as a regular column in the Wellness section 

of the Garden Island News on 09-28-22!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/09/28/lifestyles/rosen-dr-google-and-multiple-medical-opinions/

Hana Hou!

"The waiting room and the doctors' handwriting..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #339)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                     Sunrise/Weather Photos, September- 2022

                These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                   Blog #2093~Kimo's world #339

The waiting room and  the doctors' handwriting

 The doctor's waiting room has changed in recent years. There's no longer the magazine

and newspaper rack to keep you busy while awaiting your visit. Patients are now glued to their smartphones in the waiting rooms even though you see signs saying no cell phone usage.

I am not a patient person.

  Although I am a patient of many doctors and wait prolonged periods of time in their waiting rooms. This drives me bonkers even if I have nowhere else to go. 

When they finally call your name, like in a "Seinfeld" episode, your all smiles and gloat

to the others in the waiting room only to find they are putting you in another private waiting room. This makes you feel like your wait is over and you'll be seeing the doctor any minute, but yet have another 30-45 minute wait.

The old waiting room is my least favorite part of any doctor's visit. I never understood how all these intelligent people that go through years of schooling,

residency and internships cannot manage time. How can they get one to two hours behind schedule?  Aren't they taught in medical school to get to the point, be polite and limit the small talk, and respect people's time?   The only doctors that seem to manage time properly are the psychiatrists. When your hour is up you're out of there, that timer goes off, the shrink looks at his watch and says, "say time next week?" 

There is an exception, there is one waiting room I don’t mind waiting in.  When I have

virtual telemedicine appointments and the doctor is late I can hang out in the comforts of my home and watch TV, use the computer and raid the frig. That waiting room was designed with the patient in mind! LOL

The other pet peeve I have is the doctor's handwriting, again these folks of high intellect

and high IQ  can barely write. I know people with a sixth education that have beautiful penmanship, yet when I transferred medical records from one clinic to another, the new clinic could not decipher the handwritten notes from my former provider. 

I believe all people that go into health care and medicine and especially those

becoming medical doctors need to have classes in both how to handwrite and how to manage time so people aren't in the waiting room half the day.  I've talked to a couple of pharmacists that have such a hard time reading some doctors' handwriting that they must call their respective offices to find out the prescription. This becomes a waste of the pharmacist's and doctors' limited staff's precious time.

On my last doctor visit, I told my doc “Getting old is really tough!  I get up in the morning, go to the bathroom and stand for 20-25 minutes before I

can urinate, an hour later I go back to the bathroom and sit for 30-35 minutes before I have a bowel movement.”

Then the Doc tells me don't feel bad,  "I get up in the morning, pee, take a dump and in no time get out of bed, shower, eat breakfast, and by the time I get to my office I'm an hour late and there's already 5 patients in the waiting room. (LOL)

Growing older may not be fun, but sure is funny! 

This blog appeared in the 'Wellness section of the Garden news

on Wednesday 09-21--22!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/09/21/lifestyles/rosen-the-waiting-room-and-the-doctors-handwriting/

Hana Hou (Encore)

" One-upping your ailments..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen (Kimo's world #338)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

               Sunrise/Weather Photos, September- 2022

              These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                    Blog #2092~Kimo's world #338

                   One-upping your ailments

 I’m around many senior citizens since I live in a senior housing community and almost all my friends are over 65.

We all like to

talk about our medical ailments. Everyone likes to one-up the next guy on how bad their situation is. The worse you are the better for 'old people talk.' You become the official winner if your sickness outweighs your friends or neighbors.

You’ll most likely not receive much empathy from your friends even if you've had a heart attack, just gone through chemotherapy, or spent  3 months in the hospital suffering from a spinal ailment.

Talking ailments with people over 65 is more like a contest than expecting any kind of sympathy, or just a listening ear.

 

You may talk about your recent ambulance ride to Wilcox medical facility where they classified you as a code blue because they thought your spine was strangling

one of your discs in your back for numerous reasons and your neighbor will roll their eyes and say when they were  at Wilcox last time they were  on a ventilator and were told if they came in  one minute later, they'd be dead." Then another neighbor chimes in and says, she had a colonoscopy and they spent over two hours removing polyps and still couldn’t remove them all. 

It goes on and on.  Nobody ever says, wow, I’m really sorry you had to go through all that, I hope you’re feeling better.  This reminds me of Keiki telling other kids, my father can beat up your father.

You might get your religious friend(s) offering to pray for healing! Always accept when

somebody offers to pray for you whether you are a believer or not. Prayer is powerful and always gets results, sometimes not the results we want, and sometimes a miracle... I have been blessed in the past and healed through prayer, so I know firsthand.  

Something else that helps in healing is laughter, I'm currently reading a book recommended by

my doctor called, "Anatomy of an Illness" by Norman Cousins. Cousins himself laughed himself out of an illness that doctors believed to be irreversible. I've never laughed myself out of an illness however I am working on it.

 Cousins also talks about having such fine-tuned relations with your doctor or health care worker that just being in their presence is healing.  I once had a medical professional that did that for me. It's so instrumental to find the right doctor or health care worker!

It's so ironic since I don't consider myself an anxiety-ridden person but most of my health care workers do. This is what my PCP told me when I asked how I could lose 50 lbs of ugly fat. He told me to cut off my head and relax! (LOL) 

  Laugh, enjoy life, and try not to stress. This is what all my doctors and specialists have been telling me. This is what they say is healing.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was hospitalized for three months for a spinal abscess and wasn’t expected to live, then spent three more months in a nursing home to learn to walk again?

 

Getting old may not be fun, but sure is fun one-upping everyone! Your turn. (LOL)

This blog appeared in the 'Wellness section of the Garden news

on Wednesday 09-14-22!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/09/14/lifestyles/rosen-one-upping-your-ailments/

Hana Hou (Encore) 

The Artist  Formerly Known As Prince