Meeting with the patient advocate\Modifying medical records

I had a meeting with the patient advocate of the Edward Hospital. She was very nice and understanding about the whole issue and she said that my letter has been forwarded to the Vice President of Risk management

I know maybe nothing will come out of it as she said that Hospital employ doctors as independent contractors and hence cannot do anything about it. She asked me to write to Department of professional regulation about it.

She spent almost an hour talking with me about everything and it was really nice. I also asked her about the process for getting my medical records modified. Though my records have lots of false information by Dr Bajaj, there is one that I particularly need taken care of

On Day 3, It was 36 hours after the CT Scan. Dr Bajaj had asked me not to breastfeed but Dr Quejada said it was ok to breastfeed. It is recommended to wait 24 hours after scan to start feeding but we had decided to wait 48 hours.

Before the baby came, I had gotten out of bed and lost a lot of blood. I was placed on strict bedrest catherised again. And I was given an antibiotic which was incompatible with the heparin drip. So I had to have a fresh IV in second arm. That IV failed 5 times because my blood was too thin. With IVs in both arm, when my baby was bought to me, I asked Bharat to hold him
Dr Bajaj has written in my records "Patient refuses to hold and nurse the baby". I hope Arnav doesnt think I am a bad mom. I was missing my baby away in the nursery all the time, yearning for him. How can I refuse to hold the baby

Talk About It

How many people often tell you that forget about the issue. The problem is sometimes we just dont want to forget about it. We want to talk with our loved ones and friends about how this still hurts and terrifies us

Getting over it does not means not talking about it. That makes us feel that they feel that this issue is not important. It makes me feel that no one cares about what I went through. Hence this blog. It lets me talk to myself about how I feel about all this

More to come

Based on the google analytics reports sending traffic to my site and at my own frustration on the lack of information available on the net, my next few posts will cover
1. Coumadin and Breastfeeding
2. Procedure for getting your medical records
3. Procedure for modifying your medical records
4. Quality of care complaint procedure against your physician and hospital
5. Pregnancy on Coumadin

Please send me any more topics you would like see covered on this blog