I have issues with medical "Procedures"

[woody1]

Does anyone else? Just what the heck is a "Procedure?" Regards, Woody

[William Yanda]

A procedure is what a medical practitioner "practices"

Bill-duckin and runnin

[KCSO]

That's where yo go in with a nail through your foot and the first thing they do is weigh you and take your blood pressure.

[osteodoc08]

Is it the term procedure or the actual doing of the procedure?

I do procedures all the time. Stitches, cutting off moles, yanking out nasty ingrown toe nails. For me it shouldnt be called procedures, but called funcedures. I've always enjoyed working with my hands. Should have been a surgeon....at least then I'd be able to afford my student loans. Anyone have issues with student loans?

[FISH4BUGS]

The "procedure" is take a quick look, and then the actual "procedure" starts".... send the bill....fight with insurance to get paid, then write it off, and then get you pay the out of pocket right away.

[s mac]

Don't forget, Dr's are just practiceing anyway.

[sparky45]

By definition: A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems. Got health problems, you're going to get a "procedure". Then your Dr. will give the procedure a "procedure code"; then the office staff will submit that procedure code to the insurance provider; then the insurance providers clerk will write of between 50-80% of the charge assigned to that procedure code and send the payment to your Dr. Then the Dr's office staff will sent you a statement to pay the allowable balance. That's the real Medical Procedure.
Sparky

[w5pv]

I find that when they say procedure it means some type of surgey or invasive exam some simple as a emma or as bad as seeing how pain you can take like doing a pulling a tooth without novicane.

[dbosman]

What's Novocaine and should my dentist know about it?

... pulling a tooth without novicane.

Procedures became the norm when insurance companies started deciding what got paid for.

[btroj]

Procedure is a generic term for some sort of medical process. It allows people to say they are seeking medical attention for a health related issue, or problem for those with issue issues, without divulging potentially awkward information.

I prefer to hear about your procedure instead of discovering you have hemorrhoids, anal fissures, or a prolapsed bowel.

Think of procedure as a polite way of preventing over sharing of information.

[Rex]

When the Dr. walks in with a rubber glove and jar of vaseline you know you are going to get a "procedure".

[square butte]

Procedure = Wallet Vacuum = Boat Payment or Tropical Vacation

[Zymurgy50]

"Procedure" is when you realize that your Doctor still has both his hands on your hips during your prostate exam............ just sayin'

[woody1]

[QUOTE=btroj;2588676]
I prefer to hear about your procedure instead of discovering you have hemorrhoids, anal fissures, or a prolapsed bowel.QUOTE]
But when I go in and nurse GoodBody asks me if I'm here for my "Procedure" I want to know if I'm going to get my anus rotorooted or my appendix removed. Both would be a "Procedure" wouldn't they? Regards, Woody

[btroj]

Woody, that should all be well known in advance!

Medical lingo is a Bit short on real descriptiveness. Sort of like when getting an injection of local and they tell you there will be a slight pinch, that really mean this is gonna hurt like hell!

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

Hmm. I took a procedure shortly after breakfast this morning

[Recluse]

I've had enough medical procedures since age eighteen to last me several lifetimes. Some were necessary, others I continue to have my doubts over.

The one thing in common for each and every one of these "procedures" is that they were expensive as hell.

$26,000 per day for a hospital room, IVs, bad food, no functioning television and a four-minute visit from the quack--for an appendectomy? And then they botched it, sent me a bill for $12,000 to have to go in and correct THEIR screw-up, and then threaten to sue me when I told them they would need a colonoscopy to recover the bill they sent me?

This last bout of medical stuff topped six-figures again. Yeah, insurance pays for it--but who pays for insurance? Everyone.

Just got off the phone with a specialists' office who wants to do some "scans and probes and looking around" at the end of the month. "What are you looking for?" I ask.

"Oh, just a good idea at your age that we put you under, stick probes into every orifice of your body and then bill you and your insurance company unmercifully for it," was the paraphrased answer.

MY answer is not printable here.

I've canceled ever stinking "preventive care" doctor's appointment this year except for two routine dental cleanings. The howls of protest I'm getting from these damn lawyers with stethoscopes is unbelievable.

I don't take my pickup to the mechanic until something is wrong. Why the hell should I go to the damn doctor if nothing is wrong?

We've been so brainwashed by the medical industry. . . we have more pills than we have problems for them to solve, so we have to look for new syndromes and disorders and diseases in order to justify big pharma and big retail pharmacies to continue with their obscene profit markups in order to satisfy Wall Street.

Every damn doctor's office you sit in these days seems to have those closed circuit televisions with tales of doom and gloom if you don't get your rectum scoped at the same time you your ear/nose/throat doc rams his poker up you while the urologist pounds on your kidneys then surprises you by saying their bruised.

Medical procedures? Hell yeah I have issues with them.

[Rex]

Recluse, how do you really feel about Dr. check-ups?

[square butte]

One thing that is true in the medical universe - Testing leads to procedures

[wlc]

Medical "procedures" are kinda in the same boat as folks having "issues". They aren't "issues", they are PROBLEMS. Its not a "procedure" it is a money sucking racket.