Terrible doctors I tell you

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Date: 03 October 2010 06:17:27

Patient: The doctors in this place are terrible! Always changing my medications! I usually take 400mg of Brainium Plus and they're only giving me 200mg!!! And I always take my calcium three times a day and they're only giving it to me once!! SO INCOMPETENT! Yay: hmm well that sounds like it can be easily fixed. I'll just get your notes to see what has happened. Patient: Hah! RED TAPE BUREAUCRACY! It's a joke!! .... Yay potters off to get the notes... looks at the page in the admission papers saying "Medications"... the table is blank except for "See green sheets"... Yay flips through the folder to the green sheets. Ah! It's the patient's home-made medical record that he has lovingly put together with everything from the painful toenail when marooned on an island off the coast of Greenland to the time the aspirin fell down the toilet and the patient had to take paracetamol for his headache instead... and then the list of medications. Yay: er.. sir the list of medications that you gave us indicates that you are taking 200mg of Brainium Plus and calcium once daily. Patient: well I've been taking 400mg since last week and the calcium three times daily for two weeks!! Yay: yes but doctors often have to rely on the patient to tell us how they take their medications... Patient: but I gave them the list!!