Posted on 09/19/2017 7:08:37 PM PDT by Lorianne
I just had to check in electronically for an upcoming doctors visit and I'm so angry.
1. Choosing your race there is no White or Caucasian, the closest choice available is "not Hispanic"
2. Filing out the emergency contact there is no choice for husband (or wife). The closest thing you can choose is "life partner"
3. Filling out your sex it does give you a choice of cisfemale .... and about 12 other choices.
WTH?
Just venting. I am going to complain to the doctor and ask for a paper form so I can fill it out how I want to.
Plus it took FOREVER to fill out online. I could have filled it out on paper in about 2 minutes.
Grrrrrrrrrr.
My doc’s office wanted me to fill out a form every time I went in. I said no. I knew my actual Doc loved me.
No care for you, Lorraine. You are just the type of trouble maker they are trying to weed out. How quaint...you want “husband” and “wife” on the form? You want “white” on the form? Please report to Room 101.
I must have been prescient or something because when this crap started back in high school I chose to mock them. I’ve been doing it ever since.
1. Race: N/A or none. Drives them crazy not to use one of their pre-designations.
2. Emergency contact: My bank. They’ll probably know when I kick off before I do.
3. Sex: Not as much as I’d like.
Never let them get you down!
My daughter was filling out a college form and she answered the SEX box; Never.
Several of us could maybe help on #3. Notice I wrote "maybe."
Get a new doctor. Your current one probably has AIDS and bad breath.
I used to fill out the forms with a lot of N/A or just cross out entire sections which did not pertain to me. The “health provider” would then corect my N/As with whatever they chose. This annoyed me so I started filling out the forms with purple or green colored pens just so it would show who wrote what.
What in the World is “cisfemale?” The Cisco Kid’s wife?
They didn’t ask if you were feeling depressed? How much you drink each week? Slackers!
About a week after the election I had a doctor appointment. The nurse asked if I’d had any recent mood changes.
I said for the last eight days I’ve been feeling especially ecstatic. She laughed and agreed.
So you are the reason medical costs are going up. How much do you think it costs to transcribe a paper form into the computer so that Big Data can harvest the information to use against you?
Track, Identify, Measure:
"Benefits of Electronic Medical Records
Track data over time
Identify patients who are due for preventive visits and screenings
Monitor how patients measure up to certain parameters"
https://www.healthit.GOV/providers-professionals/electronic-medical-records-emr
The nurse asked about my libido last week and I told her, “Pretty good. How is yours?”
Most of what was asked for the wellness check seemed focused on finding a need for something they advertise on TV.
Lovely.
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Lovely. Now they want to sell me *protection*...laughable.
I go ballistic when a doc office asks for my social. Always refuse. But it's on my Medicare card. We're caught between the devil and the dark web.
I also protest when the 8-10 pages of info they ask you to fill out are all redundant. Too lazy to curate the docs. If I don't like the question I cross it out. Heck with them.
If there was a gun {{{shudder}}} in your house?
Or...”do you drive and text?” Yep, got asked that....that’s when I told her to stop...and she said...yeah, I won’t ask you about guns.”
LOL....the office staff hates to see me coming....I go ballistic at the drop of a hat.
Being of the age...when there is nothing left to lose, has its benefits.
[I can see them at their station....*YOU take her...NO! YOU take her...it’s your turn. I had her the last time.} Meh.
You should tell them are illiterate and you need someone else to fill it out, that’s what I do.
At my doctor’s visit today, I got to fill out a form with the question: “How do you self-identify” with several options including “non-binary”. This after being asked if I was male or female. Whaaat? So they ask you to identify your biological sex slash gender, then your inner mental psychological possibly stark raving mad view of yourself. Seriously.
According to the gubmint, they are rolling out new Medicare cards on which the SSN is replaced with a newly assigned Medicare Beneficiary Identifier.
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/New-Medicare-Card/index.html
"We've often heard from Congress, the General Accountability Office, people with Medicare, and advocacy groups that they want the SSN taken off Medicare cards."
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