doc_rob over at Musings of a Distractible Mind put up a great Letter to Patients that really got me thinking. It's a list of 6 things that patients HAVE to know/understand/do. It generated in me nearly as many questions as it had answers and got me thinking about the patient side of the fence on those 6 topics. So originally I was going to leave a comment with my thoughts. I soon realized that to say everything I wanted to say would take up way too much space in a comment. He suggested I blog on it and send him a link or send it to him as an email. Given that this blog almost completely irrelevant to the topic and his post, I thought sending him here would be cruel and unusual punishment. I ended up sending him an email long enough to make even the most patient (pun partially intended) of people cringe.
It was indeed long, rambling in many places, ranting and soap-boxing in areas, but very helpful in my own mind. It helped me clarify and organize thoughts and questions I didn't know I had. Once I finished addressing the 6 points from his post, I realized I had a whole host of other things that I wish I could communicate with my doctors and/or doctors in general.
Therefore, in the spirit of torturing any remaining readers of this blog - uh, I mean organizing and clarifying my own thoughts on the topic - I'm going to do a series of posts about it. This is the first post, the background information. It contains the links to doc_rob's post, which you should read before you read my response or it won't make sense. I will update this post with links to the other pieces in the series as I create them.
Dr. Rob's original post
Part Two - reply to Dr. Rob's post
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