Why don’t doctors listen to you & write down correct information when they ask you about your health history?

I read my health history when I changed doctors and went to someone else. I was shocked to read that most of my health and family history was totally wrong. I was wondering why they were always asking me about heart attacks and strokes all the time and always taking my blood pressure (it’s almost always 120/70.) When I read the history it said that I came from some town that doesn’t even exist in NY. That my mother had a stroke and osteoporosis (my mother is a breast cancer patient and is being treated for osteoporosis….no stroke or BP issues run in the family.) The history also said that my father died at age 69 of a massive heart attack…he had no heart or BP issues, died at 61 from complications of a brain tumor.
How could they get this information so screwed up? Don’t they ask the patient to look at it when they’ve completed it? No wonder I’ve never gotten the care that I’ve really needed, they were concentrating on things that didn’t exist…..wonderful…NOT

Great question! I’ve found out through the years that some doctors lie. . . I don’t know why. I wonder if they’re not listening while you’re talking so they write down anything. I’ve noticed they don’t read the forms you fill out either. My mom accidentally wrote that her mother died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and the doctor never noticed. People should check their records often too. You’d be surprised how they misdiagnose you too. Good Luck!

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