|
|
 |
11-18-2009, 03:16 PM
|
#16 |
|
Donating 4WT Yakker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 5,717
|
I'm sitting the airport waiting to get on the plane to Austin. Can hardly wait to get home!!!!
Judy, my student is also Hispanic and a women's health nurse practitioner so she has a special and first hand perspective of the problem and possible solutions.
__________________
 Gayle
|
|
|
|
11-18-2009, 05:10 PM
|
#17 |
|
Donating 4WT 500 Club Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 6,025
|
I hope that you had a safe trip. I assume your home by now so welcome home
Glad to hear that Gary is much better... |
|
|
|
|
11-18-2009, 06:58 PM
|
#18 |
|
Donating 4WT Yakker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 5,717
|
Yep! I"m home. YIPPEE!!! And Gary looks good!
__________________
Gayle
|
|
|
|
|
11-19-2009, 01:28 PM
|
#19 |
|
Donating 4WT Yakker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Denver, NY
Posts: 8,097
|
I use a nurse practitioner as my primary care specialist. I love Joanne, and am so grateful that i found her. She is right here in town, takes my insurance, and is fanatic about sending her patients for tests. She has gotten complaints from one of the hospitals because she was having her patients tested too much.
At least she is thorough, although I am not going for the stress test she wants me to go for. I will go back to the cardiologist she sent me to for a checkup though. He did not feel that I needed a stress test. I'm also not taking the BP meds she prescribed, because I don't think I need them. I am taking my pressure at home and will bring the BP monitor to her so she can calibrate it with hers. I love that I can work with her like this. She is also a womens' health practitioner, so I don't have to go to a gyno. She is so accessible, and I have such faith in her. She keeps doing blood workups on me. I never know what she is looking for. She told me, but I feel that I don't have to worry about it since she is so on top of everything. If your student is going to set up her own practice, her patients will be as lucky as I am. I say that because she has you as a mentol, and she was given a two year scholarship. Therefore, she is terrific !!!
__________________
Judy     |
|
|
|
|
11-19-2009, 04:34 PM
|
#20 |
|
Donating 4WT Yakker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 5,717
|
Judy! You are so fortunate to have such a wonderful nurse practitioner. I don't know if I wrote that it was a nurse practitioner that solved Gary's horrible GI problem last week. If you remember, his internal medicine doctor wanted to put him in the hospital last week. I said, "Uhhh NO" A nurse practitioner friend of mine said to give him 3 days of antibiotics and do I did and he was cured. UHHHH LOTS less expensive than a hospitalization!!!
I use an NP for my primary care too! I love her. We have an NP program here at my school of nursing so we produce about 35 NPs a year! Gary has 2 nurse practitioners he sees regularly as well as the doctors in those practices and he LOVES the nurses and asks why he has to see the docs too! Of course they is a gross generalization - not all nurse practitioners are wonderful, there are bad with the good - but for the most part, NPs LISTEN to their patients and that is why the patients do so well. Judy, you have a wonderful partnership with your NP - that is a gift!
__________________
Gayle
|
|
|
|
|
12-06-2009, 06:07 AM
|
#21 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Ill be out of town
Im sorry Id didnt join in time to help you. Hopefully you won. Ill go ahead & follow you now even if Im too late. Follow me too.
donrock1 |
|
|
|
12-06-2009, 04:43 PM
|
#22 |
|
Moderator
Donating 4WT 18K Club Member 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: INDIANA
Posts: 21,624
  |
???? profile says man again...
__________________
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ECCLESIASTES 3:1 |
|
|
|
 |
| Bookmarks |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
