Vet Tech Journals: The staff (LONG)

Cheryl Perkins wrote:

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would whip
it off in his office.

I don't understand what you mean here. Suspicious-looking?

Joyce

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Cheryl Perkins wrote:

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would whip
it off in his office.

I don't understand what you mean here. Suspicious-looking?

Joyce

Some moles can be the beginning of skin cancer. Especially if they've
changed in size or appearance within a (short) period of time. I think
that's what Cheryl was referring to with "suspicious-looking mole".

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William Hamblen wrote:

On 2006-07-30, Christina Websell wrote:


Once again, it's a cultural thing. Indian doctors do not like to touch a
woman unless there is a chaparone. It is not allowed so mainly they duck
out. These are the older doctors I am talking about now, coming up to
retirement age. They don't bother to keep up. I am so lucky as all my docs
are Indian and near retirement :-P


It used to be the usual thing for a doctor to have his nurse in
the room when doing a pelvic exam and so on, partly to reassure
the patient and partly to reduce the chance of a false
accusation.

SFAIK, it still IS! (Of course, California is more
litigious than other states, so it may have something to do
with their malpractice insurance requirements.)

Of course, vets have their techs on had to make sure the patient
doesn't escape.

Considering how some human doctors perform pelvics, that may
be a consideration with them too! ;-)

Jo Firey wrote:

I cannot even imagine a gynecologist in private practice who did not have a
nursing assistant of some sort. Mine works with a Physicians Assistant.
Others I know have a Nurse Practitioner on staff. And they can hire nurses
with something less than an RN quite reasonable.

I would think their malpractice insurance would require it.

I'm pretty sure it does, in California!

Cheryl Perkins wrote:
Jo Firey wrote:


I cannot even imagine a gynecologist in private practice who did not have a
nursing assistant of some sort. Mine works with a Physicians Assistant.
Others I know have a Nurse Practitioner on staff. And they can hire nurses
with something less than an RN quite reasonable.


I would think their malpractice insurance would require it.


It doesn't seem to. But, of course, they aren't doing anything very
complicated in their office - basic exams (including pap tests),
vaccinations, etc. Anything else is done in a hospital (although in a
clinic setting rather than an inpatient one for minor matters), and of
course, hospitals have nurses, assorted technicians, and other staff.

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would whip
it off in his office. Nowadays, you get referred to a clinic and day
surgery - and if it's on your face, they'll send you to a plastic surgeon.

It all seems like overkill to me - on the one hand, the office services
are very basic, but on the other hand, you end up going to specialist or
at least to a big hospital for very minor procedures, which your doctor no
longer staffs or supplies his office for.

It's possible, I suppose, for a nurse to work in a doctor's private
office, but the ones at my doctor's clinic are all referred to as
secretaries and do the bookings and track the results of any tests, so I'm
pretty sure they aren't nurses.

But you're in Canada, aren't you? I think it's different in
the U.S., because we don't have any form of "National
Health" (other than Medicare for us oldsters).

Christine K. wrote:

wrote:
Cheryl Perkins wrote:

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would whip
it off in his office.

I don't understand what you mean here. Suspicious-looking?

Joyce

Some moles can be the beginning of skin cancer. Especially if they've
changed in size or appearance within a (short) period of time. I think
that's what Cheryl was referring to with "suspicious-looking mole".

OMG - I had read that as "suspicious-looking *male*", LOL!! Since we had
been talking about having someone in the room during an exam, in case
either the doctor tried some funny business, or the patient claimed the
doctor had done so, that wasn't completely out of left field. But I still
didn't understand what that had to do with office visits.

Joyce

"Cheryl Perkins" wrote in message
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Jo Firey wrote:

I cannot even imagine a gynecologist in private practice who did not have
a
nursing assistant of some sort. Mine works with a Physicians Assistant.
Others I know have a Nurse Practitioner on staff. And they can hire
nurses
with something less than an RN quite reasonable.

I would think their malpractice insurance would require it.

It doesn't seem to. But, of course, they aren't doing anything very
complicated in their office - basic exams (including pap tests),
vaccinations, etc. Anything else is done in a hospital (although in a
clinic setting rather than an inpatient one for minor matters), and of
course, hospitals have nurses, assorted technicians, and other staff.

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would whip
it off in his office. Nowadays, you get referred to a clinic and day
surgery - and if it's on your face, they'll send you to a plastic surgeon.

It all seems like overkill to me - on the one hand, the office services
are very basic, but on the other hand, you end up going to specialist or
at least to a big hospital for very minor procedures, which your doctor no
longer staffs or supplies his office for.

It's possible, I suppose, for a nurse to work in a doctor's private
office, but the ones at my doctor's clinic are all referred to as
secretaries and do the bookings and track the results of any tests, so I'm
pretty sure they aren't nurses.

--
Cheryl

I've never been to a doctor who didn't have a nurse or PA on board. Also,
my doctors seem to have more equipment, and handle more things, than yours.
Maybe it's a regional thing.

Joy

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Cheryl Perkins wrote:

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would
whip
it off in his office.

I don't understand what you mean here. Suspicious-looking?


Hey I know what Cheryl means. I had this mole once that was wearing dark
glasses and a trench coat. I didn't think that the doctor would ever get it
off of me. Boy, was I relieved when the doctor finally got rid of it. It
turned out that it was working for the CIA and was checking me out for
harboring moles.

Pam S.

wrote:
Christine K. wrote:

wrote:
Cheryl Perkins wrote:

When I was a girl, if you had a suspicious-looking mole, the GP would whip
it off in his office.

I don't understand what you mean here. Suspicious-looking?

Some moles can be the beginning of skin cancer. Especially if they've
changed in size or appearance within a (short) period of time. I think
that's what Cheryl was referring to with "suspicious-looking mole".

OMG - I had read that as "suspicious-looking *male*", LOL!! Since we had
been talking about having someone in the room during an exam, in case
either the doctor tried some funny business, or the patient claimed the
doctor had done so, that wasn't completely out of left field. But I still
didn't understand what that had to do with office visits.

If you think you had it bad reading things wrong, I misread the "whip
it off" part.

Takayuki wrote:

I don't understand what you mean here. Suspicious-looking?

Some moles can be the beginning of skin cancer....

OMG - I had read that as "suspicious-looking *male*", LOL!!

If you think you had it bad reading things wrong, I misread the "whip
it off" part.

They sort of go together. Suspicious looking male, whipping it... insert
correct preposition here.

Joyce