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To: Ilaine who wrote (25301)	5/22/1999 12:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Okay. I totally blanked on him being admitted into a hospital. I thought he was being sent home. This memory loss of mine is getting really annoying. In principle I agree with you that lawsuits, like loaded guns, are defensive measures of last resort. I wouldn't want to sue unless real harm has been done or needlessly risked. >I hope you don't mean that the patient has the right to force the doctor to drop everything he is doing and come running whenever he is anxious. < No. There's a balance of course. I was under the impression that the patient was about to be discharged - thus my moral outrage. The amplification you provide does mitigate my premises. Doctors are professionals with a pretty full plate, and I respect that. I give them latitude of judgment. But I HAVE encountered really high-handed attitudes from physicians that can't be reconciled with the basic idea that the patient is a paying customer. The majority of docs is acceptable-to-excellennt in the patient relations department. But there are those who behaved tangibly as if I were an impediment to their leisure - and I hadn't said a word yet. I would like to find a way to place those docs on notice that they aren't despots but contractors. I don't know a good way to do that. >Your job, as patient, is to make sure that the doctor knows everything, I mean everything, he needs to know to treat you properly.< Agreed. That's my end of the contract. However I would like to amend the part about him having read my chart. I expect that of a doctor. Usually doctor-patient contact time is tightly rationed, and i don't want to fill him in on stuff that's right there. He has his homework too. My doctor is very good about this. She either has an awesome memory or has just checked my chart when we meet. It is one of her good qualities. It works for her and for me. It means that after five minutes of contact time, we're dealing with the heart of the visit. If I were a doctor, the precontact chart check would be an indispensable part of my daily discipline. I couldn't imagine any other competent way to operate.