Choosing who you are

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Arewethereyet:
I had both breasts removed because of a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009. A couple years later my regular doc hired a new nurse. After about the tenth time she asked me when I had my last mammogram I raised hell with them. No, medical personnel do not always make appropriate notes or read the ones that are there. I don't have an issue having letting a doctor and staff that I am seeing for the first time know that my body has been surgically altered but I do think there could/should be a way to flag records to draw attention to things so that they aren't going on assumption.

I am sorry to hear this. Some people are genuinely stupid. Sometimes, people are so accustomed to procedure that sound judgment takes the back seat. Now for the same nurse to ask the same question ten times is a new level of stupidity, not to mention imperceptive asshattery.

I am not as sensitive about it as I used to be. And thank you.