SIGH!
Every day I come across non-compliant patients. I’m not talking about the ones who can’t afford their medications, but the ones who just don’t get it. The ones who say that their glucose levels are normal. Strange how that AIC got to be a 13? There’s glucose +2000 in my urine? But I don’t cheat on my diet, I swear! It’s inconvenient to check your glucose levels and take your meds? I’m sorry. How inconvenient will it be when you are hooked up to a dialysis machine three times a week for a few hours at a time?
Strange how your blood pressure shot up to 200/120 when you decided not to take your blood pressure medicine just because it made your sex life a little more difficult. Do you want to be around to even have sex? How about having that “Big One” when you are going at it like a bunny rabbit. How will your wife/girlfriend/partner feel when they have to explain to the paramedics and the coroner that you just keeled over? NICE..
Remember when you had insurance and never went to your provider’s office for a check up? You were reminded to get those preventative tests such as that pesky mammogram and colonoscopy. I know that it meant that your precious boobs would be squished for a few minutes and that you’d have to drink some stuff that made you sit on the toilet for a few hours to clean yourself out. WAAA!!!!
Too busy to take care of yourself?
Too bad. Get it done before you lose your job and join the ranks of the unemployed who lost their insurance policies and then found out that they had some horrible disease, such as cancer, that will wipe out everything their family ever knew.
Too many good people are dying out here for the lack of money to get testing done to find out their problems. So quit complaining to me when I suggest that you get those tests done while you have insurance. Many of my patients would love to have that luxury. Patients often wonder how to pay for their prescriptions and feed their families.
Do yourself a favor and stay healthy. Rant finished.
SIGH!
Every day I come across non-compliant patients. I’m not talking about the ones who can’t afford their medications, but the ones who just don’t get it. The ones who say that their glucose levels are normal. Strange how that AIC got to be a 13? There’s glucose +2000 in my urine? But I don’t cheat on my diet, I swear! It’s inconvenient to check your glucose levels and take your meds? I’m sorry. How inconvenient will it be when you are hooked up to a dialysis machine three times a week for a few hours at a time?
Strange how your blood pressure shot up to 200/120 when you decided not to take your blood pressure medicine just because it made your sex life a little more difficult. Do you want to be around to even have sex? How about having that “Big One” when you are going at it like a bunny rabbit. How will your wife/girlfriend/partner feel when they have to explain to the paramedics and the coroner that you just keeled over? NICE..
Remember when you had insurance and never went to your provider’s office for a check up? You were reminded to get those preventative tests such as that pesky mammogram and colonoscopy. I know that it meant that your precious boobs would be squished for a few minutes and that you’d have to drink some stuff that made you sit on the toilet for a few hours to clean yourself out. WAAA!!!!
Too busy to take care of yourself?
Too bad. Get it done before you lose your job and join the ranks of the unemployed who lost their insurance policies and then found out that they had some horrible disease, such as cancer, that will wipe out everything their family ever knew.
Too many good people are dying out here for the lack of money to get testing done to find out their problems. So quit complaining to me when I suggest that you get those tests done while you have insurance. Many of my patients would love to have that luxury. Patients often wonder how to pay for their prescriptions and feed their families.
Do yourself a favor and stay healthy. Rant finished.