This blog makes me feel a little less embarrassed about all the weird and awkward things I have said to my epilepsy doctor. Sometimes people are just nervous, and that's when the best word vomit/over-sharing happens. Thanks!
This patient has unwittingly simplified the rating system for epilepsy. Instead of trying to determine the details of seizures, the patient can now simply state if they: 1. Could still read and post to facebook 2. Could read, but not post 3. Could neither read nor post to facebook
I guess the thing that is even more mystifying about this -- who the h*ll posts their seizures to FaceBook.. Really??? In case anyone is interested, I sneezed once this morning.
HIPPA is only required by med pros about pt info. If you choose to share your hangnail online, you are within your rights to do so. If your doc does so, with info that identifies you, they are in trouble.
@Anon8:11 How about someone who had a seizure, is on the floor and can't get up, but managed to reach the laptop that fell to the floor during the seizure. Someone who needed help, but couldn't be heard by others in the house and was desperate for someone to see the post and phone her family so they'd get her the help she needed. Someone who, not too long after that incident, died due to uncontrolled seizures.
Not a bad index, actually.
ReplyDeleteErrrr, the alternative?
ReplyDeleteWhile it was happening.....
ReplyDeleteWell, there ya go!
ReplyDeleteAnd if the patient can post about the seizure on Facebook with a selfie video, it's really not as bad.
ReplyDeleteOh, my. Oh, my...I'm still laughing.
ReplyDelete"And it got a lot more 'likes' than most of my others."
ReplyDelete"But for the best ones, check out my YouTube channel."
ReplyDeleteMedical technology has really advanced since the old days when you had to post about your seizures on MySpace.
ReplyDelete"Of course, there's that one from last year that I put up on PornHub..."
ReplyDeleteThis blog makes me feel a little less embarrassed about all the weird and awkward things I have said to my epilepsy doctor. Sometimes people are just nervous, and that's when the best word vomit/over-sharing happens. Thanks!
ReplyDelete"Facebook is HIPAA-compliant, right?"
ReplyDeleteThis patient has unwittingly simplified the rating system for epilepsy. Instead of trying to determine the details of seizures, the patient can now simply state if they:
ReplyDelete1. Could still read and post to facebook
2. Could read, but not post
3. Could neither read nor post to facebook
Discard all the other systems.
I guess the thing that is even more mystifying about this -- who the h*ll posts their seizures to FaceBook.. Really???
ReplyDeleteIn case anyone is interested, I sneezed once this morning.
HIPPA is only required by med pros about pt info. If you choose to share your hangnail online, you are within your rights to do so. If your doc does so, with info that identifies you, they are in trouble.
ReplyDeleteOh, well that's all right then.
ReplyDelete@Anon8:11
ReplyDeleteHow about someone who had a seizure, is on the floor and can't get up, but managed to reach the laptop that fell to the floor during the seizure. Someone who needed help, but couldn't be heard by others in the house and was desperate for someone to see the post and phone her family so they'd get her the help she needed. Someone who, not too long after that incident, died due to uncontrolled seizures.
warmsocks-- the situation you describe is not the same as posting every single seizure on-line.
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