All this school for what?
A few weeks ago I tripped and fell. At the time I felt a sharp pain in my left knee. Sharp immediate and short lived pain. I could walk it off, which I did and tried to forget about it.
The next morning my left knee hurt. It hurt to bend all the way and to extend all the way. It was also swollen a bit.Again I didn't think much about it. During the next two days it was more of the same. Mostly nothing, but occasionally with a turn or a certain movement, a quick, sharp pain that occasionally lasted longer than a few moments.
Two days later, at the end of the day my left knee ached and was very sore and had swollen up quite a bit. Now for those of you who have spend hundred and thousands of dollars on a very extensive medical education, you may have already surmised, I had injured a ligament in my knee. Probably torn. But for me, it was my knee and I was using that same expensive education to scare myself into believing I may have fractured my knee; nothing glamorous, just a compression fracture. So after attempting to ignore it for two days, I told my wife what was going on and she insisted that I go to the ER to have it checked out. As opposed to Urgent Care, because the ER can and will X-ray, and Urgent Care will just send us to the ER to have the Xray done.
A couple of hours and an Xray later, the consensus is that I tore a ligament in my knee. And THEN it occurred to me that I knew that already, but for some reason I couldn't think of that for myself. This is WHY doctors who treat themselves are idiots.
I went into my PCP to have an exam and to get a referral for an MRI. So now I wait. I have to have the Insurance Co approve the MRI first, which could take up to 2 weeks. It isn't enough that the MD at the ER suggested that I need an MRI, it isn't enough that my PCP (an MD) referred me for an MRI. It isn't enough that I, a DC and the DC I work for think I need an MRI. No I have to have a bean counter (most likely a person who may or may not have graduated from college) decide whether or not I need an MRI; based on some policy book somewhere. So I wait. tick tock.
The next morning my left knee hurt. It hurt to bend all the way and to extend all the way. It was also swollen a bit.Again I didn't think much about it. During the next two days it was more of the same. Mostly nothing, but occasionally with a turn or a certain movement, a quick, sharp pain that occasionally lasted longer than a few moments.
Two days later, at the end of the day my left knee ached and was very sore and had swollen up quite a bit. Now for those of you who have spend hundred and thousands of dollars on a very extensive medical education, you may have already surmised, I had injured a ligament in my knee. Probably torn. But for me, it was my knee and I was using that same expensive education to scare myself into believing I may have fractured my knee; nothing glamorous, just a compression fracture. So after attempting to ignore it for two days, I told my wife what was going on and she insisted that I go to the ER to have it checked out. As opposed to Urgent Care, because the ER can and will X-ray, and Urgent Care will just send us to the ER to have the Xray done.
A couple of hours and an Xray later, the consensus is that I tore a ligament in my knee. And THEN it occurred to me that I knew that already, but for some reason I couldn't think of that for myself. This is WHY doctors who treat themselves are idiots.
I went into my PCP to have an exam and to get a referral for an MRI. So now I wait. I have to have the Insurance Co approve the MRI first, which could take up to 2 weeks. It isn't enough that the MD at the ER suggested that I need an MRI, it isn't enough that my PCP (an MD) referred me for an MRI. It isn't enough that I, a DC and the DC I work for think I need an MRI. No I have to have a bean counter (most likely a person who may or may not have graduated from college) decide whether or not I need an MRI; based on some policy book somewhere. So I wait. tick tock.