Doctor's Appointment

Had another doctor's appointment and it went fine. This one was with Dr. Marks, the only male doctor in the practice, who is an interesting character with an offbeat sense of humor.

It's interesting how much responsibility the patient has, particularly since doctor's typically think most patients are ignorant fools. Since Jessica's bloodwork continually comes back showing low iron, the office calls and tells her to take iron supplements.... then the doctors tell her not to. Since she has anemia, a low count is normal for her. When we asked Dr. Marks (again) since the office called (again), he initally reviewed the charts and told her to take iron every other day since her iron was down from the initial screening. Jessica caught that the count he mentioned was very high and challenged that she has never had a count that high and it turned out he was looking at my chart! So no more iron.

For the actual delivery, we have the responsibility of making a list of things to present to the hospital when we arrive. Basically we have to tell the hospital staff a bunch of things because they won't have the time or inclination to get the information from charts or our doctors.