Updating of medical records

by Cabin in the woods 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • Cabin in the woods
    Cabin in the woods

    For those of you who have walked away from most of the scriptural beliefs you might want to take a moment and check you familys and your own medical records. While being a witness most of us had no blood warnings posted on all of our paperwork and a flag for our personal drs. on our files. If for you this has changed then please do not forget to contact your family physicians and do what is necessary to update information. It might save you life or someone that you love.

    Even at your hospital... make certain that everything is in order.

    Just a thought.

    cab

  • Snoozy
    Snoozy

    Funny thing...when my JW hubby went to the hospital for pre-opt testing..they kept coming in to match his blood type..in case he needed a transfusion!..

    Even tho he told them he was a JW and would take NO Blood..he even had all the paper work the JW's required and we handed copies to all the Drs and nurses and it was on his chart...

    We still had to repeat it each time a different Dr came in. They never even look at the chart!

    He even had the living will on file..and the forms the JW's notorized.

    If you are unconcious..you are in big trouble..maybe print it on your chest?

    Snoozy..

  • Cabin in the woods
    Cabin in the woods

    Wow Snoozy! Your hubby must have been in a large hospital!!

    Around here it is usually a bit more personable.

    I guess that I was a bit vague in my first post. That will teach me for writing later in the evening.

    The other day I was checking in for some simple blood tests and reallized that I was still marked as a JW on all my records.

    Due to the blood issue that really made me stop and think. To be honest at this point I do not know if I would take blood or not based on all the problems of transfusions but I want to be given the option at the beginning of the problem not waiting until it a crisis has been reached.

    Also, the fact that if I go unconcious my hubby has not made any move to alienate himself from his belief system and I fear that he would walk the JW line with my health.

    cab

  • greendawn
    greendawn

    That's a useful reminder for those who were misled by the cult to make a possible decision of death on the bogus grounds that this was a scriptural law.

  • blondie
    blondie

    If you are worried about health care wishes being followed when you are unconscious, that is what healthcare proxies are for. By appointing a person you trust to represent you in making those decisions, you can cut down most of those problems. Now is the time to set it up, find 2 people who will be proxies, act as your representative, get the form, fill it out, everyone sign it appropriately (you will 2 more people to act as witnesses to the signatures), copies of the document to the proxies to, doctors, clinics, hospitals, one in your safety box at the bank if you have one. It wouldn't hurt to have a bracelet or necklace saying such a document exists.

    This topic has been discussed many times on JWD.

    PS you do not need a lawyer to do this.

    Blondie

  • Bumble Bee
    Bumble Bee

    I was just thinking about this. I have a Dr's appt next month and was considering this. I've been going to this Dr since I was 4 years old, my whole family has. I know there is supposed to be confidentiality between Dr and patient, but there has been the odd time the Dr has mentioned something about me to my mother. I know my mother would freak if she knew I'd be willing to accept blood now, so I'm a bit nervous about this.

    BB

  • Scully
    Scully
    I know there is supposed to be confidentiality between Dr and patient, but there has been the odd time the Dr has mentioned something about me to my mother. I know my mother would freak if she knew I'd be willing to accept blood now, so I'm a bit nervous about this.

    If you do decide to discuss this with your Dr, at the beginning of the conversation you should say something along the lines of "This is something that I have not disclosed to my family, and I am not ready to have them know what I am about to tell you. I need to know that you will keep this strictly confidential...."

    At that point, he is bound (he already is legally, but this just impresses on him that you don't want this to "accidentally" slip to your family) by doctor-patient privilege. He's probably going to be curious about why you'd want to keep this from your family (he'll think it's "good news", so why wouldn't you want to share it?) and you could get into a conversation about shunning / being DFd etc. for having had a change of heart regarding blood transfusions.

  • LDH
    LDH

    Agree with Scully.

    Let him know that you expect him to honor the doctor-patient privelege.

    If you don't feel comfortable doing this, change docs.

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