Vamc Clinic Visit

[Bound4heaven]

Greetings to all,

Two weeks ago I have a visit with a neuroligist about migraines. He also examined my feet because of no sensation in my toes. I requested the clinic notes and noticed he said wrote down several things that did not take place and if the RO seen them it might question the severity of one of my disabilities which I am rated at 100% loss of use.

I sent a letter directly to the doctor with a copy of the clinic report (the examiner in question is a resident and not a Dr) I highlighted the areas of issue and ask that they be removed, because it did not take place and I enclosed a self-addressed envelope for him to send me a copy of the corrected report.

I do not know if he will or will not do it, if he will not do it I will send a copy of the sent letter and clinic report and file a complaint with the patient's advocate office.

I have made a decision that I will never see again a specialist at the VA ( I have medicare). I see my primiary VA Dr once a year at a nearby clinic.

What do you guys think of writing the letter to the resident? was that you feel a good move?

God bless you all.

Bound4Heaven

[Berta]

I feel any time a VA employee documents something that is not fact-they should be accountable for it.

I bet he does not respond to you- but he might- if not I would send complaint to the patient's advocate and to the VAMC director too-

Did he speak English?

I often wonder whether some of the docs (I dont mean to sound politically incorrect here)fully understand English-

I dealt with so many foreigners at one point at VA-all these docs had different accents that I made them repeat what they said and I wrote it all down and double checked it with them.

Also we had a doc here at the VA with a hearing loss and he had problems interpreting what vets said.My husband told him many times he had no hearing loss at all and the doc kept writing in the record-hearing loss from explosion in Nam-

Rod specifically told him about this explosion incident when he was asked about anything like that in service -

but he had hearing loss for hours after the explosion and then never had any problems with it-

Sometimes I think the docs are so tired they just put down what they can remember or at least their take on it and it might be far from fact.

[Bound4heaven]

Dear Berta,

Thank you for your response. He was from India, and spoke english, however I did not understand him at times.

I learned this issue from you Berta years ago when I had all those issues with C&P Nurse practioneers. I hope he does respond, howver I will give him 2 weeks to respond and then I willl file a complaint.

Thank you again Berta. God bless you.

Bound4Heaven

[StarVista888]

Hello-

RE your clinic visit. I hd the exact same situation but worse. No, the letter to the Resident means close to nothing. You should get the Patient Advocate to give you contact info for the person who can legally remove false info from your record.

It happens all the time in the VA. I know that as a patient and as someont who has worked for the VA. Always, Always, get every shred of info re your medical visits. You would be shocked at the amount of false info in your record and providers adding info that never occurred. Good Luck!

StarVista888

[Bound4heaven]

Greetings,

Thank you for your response. Yes I will go directly to the patients advocate. Thank you so much.

Bound4Heaven

[john999]

I think you are right to use your medicare to get your serious medical attention. I can see an orthopedist in weeks via medicare but it would take months if I use the VA. Who has this time to waste waiting for rationed care?

[Pete53]

Many Veterans see interns and never know it. They totae in every January and July. Yes and they play Doctor on Veterans and since this one wrote down erroneous information you should not only see the Patients Advocate but I recommend the Chief Medical Doctor or the person responsible for training the goof ball.

Not all Indian Doctors are bad some of my best Doctors at VA have been Foreign.