Not only can Medi/Medi patients decline being weighed, BUT...it's possible to have the noxious BMI
number, along with a weight figure gotten from God-knows-where, REMOVED from your records. Yup - you may have to be a wee tad bit pushy, but who cares? This is called defending your position.
I know - I did this last year at my Cedars-Sin…
Not only can Medi/Medi patients decline being weighed, BUT...it's possible to have the noxious BMI
number, along with a weight figure gotten from God-knows-where, REMOVED from your records. Yup - you may have to be a wee tad bit pushy, but who cares? This is called defending your position.
I know - I did this last year at my Cedars-Sinai gp's office. Both numbers, the BMI & a weight that
likely came from an anaesthesiologist who treated me for a prior surgery, were REMOVED from my
records - I saw it for myself. Sometimes we just have to be not so nice in order to get what we need.
Next goal: seeing to it that the word "obese" is NEVER used in conjunction with my size. For the record, I am a rawboned 5'6" and weigh 185 pounds. Some people just see mountains of fat wherever
they look.
As always, a HUGE "thank you" to you, Ragen, for making this work so visible to so many who need it.
Not only can Medi/Medi patients decline being weighed, BUT...it's possible to have the noxious BMI
number, along with a weight figure gotten from God-knows-where, REMOVED from your records. Yup - you may have to be a wee tad bit pushy, but who cares? This is called defending your position.
I know - I did this last year at my Cedars-Sinai gp's office. Both numbers, the BMI & a weight that
likely came from an anaesthesiologist who treated me for a prior surgery, were REMOVED from my
records - I saw it for myself. Sometimes we just have to be not so nice in order to get what we need.
Next goal: seeing to it that the word "obese" is NEVER used in conjunction with my size. For the record, I am a rawboned 5'6" and weigh 185 pounds. Some people just see mountains of fat wherever
they look.
As always, a HUGE "thank you" to you, Ragen, for making this work so visible to so many who need it.