2 weeks ago, an attempt was made to do an aspiration of an incidentaloma (!) on the remaining right adrenal gland. DZoctor tells you what will be done, and scheduling at hospital calls to schedule day & time. All very routine.
I get to the CT, strapped in, no heavy sedation yet, and they take a scan-just like the dozens I've had in 30 months. The Doc/APRN gets me out of the thing, and tells me he can't do it. He points at the slice of me that matters, and says the liver, lungs and heart vessels make it impossible to get to.
I hear nothing from prescribing/requesting cancer doc... And the, the other day, scheduling at the local hospital calls. For what, you ask? To schedule an aspiration of my right adrenal gland's incidentaloma(!)... AGAIN. They didn't know about the first attempt.
I write my doctor, as I only have a few days until it's scheduled (IOW, little time to cancel if in error), and express my confusion...
"Oh, sorry about that. We're having another doctor try it."
OK, that aside... Here is the part of this that... ...irks me: The CT scan they did that day was the same as dozens (not exaggerating) already taken-all recently. How far was my liver going to move in a month-especially showing no trends in moving over 30 months? How much should my right lung have moved?
At the time, they said the scan was to see if it could be done. What was the motivation for yet another redundant scan?
On our side of the puddle, it always boils down to money. They do them because the know Insurance will pay them for it. I don't seed anything ($), but the hospital gets to charge for another useless scan. I know they aren't a charity, but really?
Do they do this annoying stuff over there?
Hi Kismet
It sounds like you've been going through a very trying time!
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