Communicating with MD's - Foreign Language?

[jsewell]

My drug list , physician list and phone numbers, surgeries and medical conditions i keep current with me at all apt. so i do on occasion if i think lots have changed or the nurse or doc asks if anything is new I have them make a copy of this list.
I also type up a list of questions, comments of the day. My spine surgeon loves me giving him this info. He probably knows me best, but still likes to get it. If nothing else , with other docs they are ususally appreciative and have a quick something to catch themselves up with for next time too.
Yesterday at my pm doc there was a new nurse. She was nice and introduced herself , but her questions and comments seeemed out there. Every one enters on a computer when talking to me. So she went to ask the other nurse a question and find out she was on the screen of a different patient. Explained it all.
judy