The3 P's For Doctor Appointments

Security are you going to deal with a lot of different doctors that she's the way it works you're already doing with somebody who is sick and has a lot of medical challenges, or disability. Whenever you go to.

It was doctors in my case were well over 60 are just counting at 60 whatever started on this journey.

30 years ago I thought doctors were close to God and some of reinforce that belief. You want to just people just people trying to do a good job.

Take care folks here some things that you can do to avoid some landmines and getting some problems and I learned some of these well everything I learned I learned the hard way but you don't have to. So here the 3P's of dealing with the doctor okay number one. Be polite just be polite you don't have to go when they're armed to the teeth and ready to do battle. Just be polite because but don't be subservient. Remember as a caregiver. You have great authority.

You know that love one better than anyone else. You see the warning signs and it's okay for you to raise your hand and say you know what some doesn't feel right here now, you may not be able to put the science to it that a physician could, but you still understand that something is not right. Use that authority can use it will be polite with it. I sometimes try to put you in your place little bit because you're busy or whatever just happened. Don't take it personally but understand you can push back a little bit. I'm in want of a dock was give me a little bit attitude with my wife and I send out with all due respect, I was take care of her when you were in junior high school will escape this thing in perspective here. To his credit, he come back to and that's okay to do that and you may feel real timid doing that. It takes longer practice. You want to be rude but you can be firm and say this is what I feel about the preparedness of XP to be polite, be prepared, be prepared. Don't show up there and I just think well we just figure out what will happen when we get there. Now don't write down some things that you want to accomplish that particular meeting.

It's a professional meeting to show up dressed for you know, I'm sorry I don't make the rules, but if you're wearing a Van Halen T-shirt and Daisy Dukes to treat you like to innovate hail and decent teacher, and Daisy Dukes, so if you don't know what that is. Google so go dressed appropriately. You know, you don't have to put on a three-piece suit in the pocket watch or you will have to put on an evening gown, but do dress appropriately for a business meeting, and write down the things that you want to get out of that meeting and don't leave until you do, don't go in there with the library of stuff just three big sets of things that you want to accomplish.

She want to come out of there with at least of action step. Try not to leave the doctor's office with a lot of vague well will just try this out for a while and see know what's the next action step always want to do that in the last thing the last P pharmaceuticals, stay out of the pharmaceutical conversation. Why is that well were pre-articulate were pretty good at managing a lot of things as caregivers, but it's really important for our loved one to interact with the physician so they can see the nonverbal things going on with the drugs that they happen to be on you don't want to get in the way of that yet.

We may be a patient may frustrate us when their stuttering and stammering or their rabbit trail and everywhere that could happen, but that's part of the diagnostic process as well. So if you get in the way and you start trying to manage that situation. Guess what your Robin your loved one of being treated properly by the physician.

Stay out of that conversation if they're having a problem with too much pain medication to many narcotics.

Guess what you need stay.

You need to let that take its course. You can raise your hand and say it asked questions about it but be very very careful when it comes to dealing with pharmaceuticals.

That's an issue that is best left to professionals and we can get real familiar with these things and think we know what were talking about. We don't have the training we don't know the science it's best to leave that the professionals so be polite, be prepared stay out of the pharmaceuticals. That's gonna make your journey as a caregiver going all these doctor visits a lot easier a lot smoother. So keep you a lot calmer and calmer caregivers. I have found make better caregivers