How do I let go of anger? I just noticed. Went to internist and heart doc. For follow up appointments after husband got out rehab. Both doctors asked what he was taking and that's it. No discussion of meds. Now internist secretary says it was up to me to tell doc I wanted him to stay on meds rehab had him on. That he needs to see husband to prescribe pills. We saw him a few weeks ago. Said doc may not prescribe. And take few days to find out. Rehab doc may or may not extend pills. Heart doc took list of pills said nothing. We had no pills prescribed previously by him.
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Post surgery, my husband and i went to see his pcp. We wanted to know what the plan was. He read the discharge notes and said we needed to follow up with a cardiologist. We discussed who the best person for husband to see was. We discussed the management of my husband's blood thinner and how he would accomplish blood testing, and who would recieve those results. We discussed which doctor ( cardio or pcp) would get called if X, Y or Z happened.
You need to develop a list of questions to take with you to doctor appointments. Top one needs to be " who is precribing meds?".
You are supposed to follow up with these docs and have a conversation about what the treatment plan is , going forward. Did you have that conversation, at least with the pcp? Someone needs to be the conductor here.
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I do know, that my FIL'S DR, has slowly eliminated all but his thyroid meds this past year. No more BP, cholesterol and diabetes meds, as his lab values show he just doesn't neeed them anymore. So a lot will depend on his lab tests.