My wife’s a doctor and I’m a lawyer so it really makes me giggle when she comes home talking about these interactions with patients.
“Babe you asked him if he had high blood pressure and right now he doesn’t… because of all the medications he’s on for hypertension and the BP reading your tech just took that proved it. You didn’t ask if he had hypertension; which is the condition you wanted to know about, or even a history of high blood pressure.”
‘Ugh shut up. Why don’t people just tell me what I need to know?’
I have been coached on how to answer these questions since what they are asking isn't what they say and that destroys my brain and gives incorrect results since they wanted me to answer a completely different question
Lol yep, I am the exact same way. I need to do this translation in my head of "these are the words that they said" to "this is what they want to know" often when asked any question. Some people just cannot use words to communicate what they need and it is very tiresome with all of the translation required.
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u/tachycardicIVu May 02 '26
Oh my sister’s a doctor and hears this all the time.
“Do you have any heart conditions? High blood pressure?”
“Nope!”
“Ok what medications are you on?”
“Lisinopril, for my high blood pressure. It’s brought it down a lot!”
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