4:35am update

The patient can’t sleep and neither can the advocate. This last weekend there was a visit to an ED and a blood lab. The blood draw had to be performed with the patient laying on the floor because she had a vasovegel response. I had mentioned this to her primary care physician but it was explained that the orders could not be sent to another lab. The lab finding were insignificant for preliminary findings for inflammatory disorder(s). Also last week the patient was screened by my neurologist,… nothing here either.

This is what I wrote yesterday to the PCP and her other point doctor with certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology :

As you know, I am trying to help advocate for *the patient*. I have created a blog for her. I hope you have seen it. The next thing I am thinking of putting up on the blog is how I’m trying to coordinate an effort to help speed up this process. I am not sure that an open line of communication would be a bad thing between her primary care, *the patient* , myself, you, and the specialists,….. rheumatology, Neurology, foot and ankle specialists, and the knee specialist and complementary medicine specialist. I think we need to speed up the process of the diagnoses and the prognosis involved with the whole of *the patient*. I do believe that *the patient* is not that complicated a patient and that keeping it simple maybe the solution, but we just need more of a coordinated effort in to opening up a good line of communication.