weight loss diet paperwork from the goverment

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mystic36
mystic36 Posts: 8 Member
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The government is now making Doctors hand out paperwork to everyone who comes through there offices about weight loss. It doesn't matter if your 100 lbs or 200+lbs. It doesn't even matter if you have a medical condition, surgery, therapy or anything. They are making the doctors hand this paperwork out no matter what. So what is your opinion?
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  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
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    The government is now making Doctors hand out paperwork to everyone who comes through there offices about weight loss. It doesn't matter if your 100 lbs or 200+lbs. It doesn't even matter if you have a medical condition, surgery, therapy or anything. They are making the doctors hand this paperwork out no matter what. So what is your opinion?

    Don't fill it out if you don't want to?
  • darkguardian419
    darkguardian419 Posts: 1,302 Member
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    Source? I don't get paperwork like that. I work for the government, and if I don't stay within weight standards, I lose my job. Seems like something we should have had years ago.
  • jojo52610
    jojo52610 Posts: 692 Member
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    I just went to go to see my hemotologist he told me now he's required to send me a nutritionist because of my weight gain (15lbs)
    I've been suffering from 2 injuries where I can't run or even walk. I told him that he said - I have to refer you I have no choice.

    Scary stuff
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
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    How much will this extra paperwork cost us, as taxpapers and as patients? And i dont think it should be about "Weight loss" but rather "healthy eating/nutrition and exercise" I think this should also be taught regularily in schools.
  • atucker0821
    atucker0821 Posts: 106 Member
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    i have an appointment this afternoon for med refills...it will be interesting to see if i get this "mandated" paperwork...

    i'm indifferent about the paperwork...they are just killing more trees...i would give them my email addy if they asked for it...
  • jlemoore
    jlemoore Posts: 702 Member
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    The new Obama health care rules have all sorts of issues. I had my annual in November. (wl paperwork was given to me) My doctor told me that in the future when you go in for a physical, she can not talk to me aobut my medications. HELLO!!!! that is the main reason I am there.
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
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    Now that we are all "paying for each other", somebody has to keep track of everything.
  • jlemoore
    jlemoore Posts: 702 Member
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    The paperwork is just a couple of pages on how to eat right and exercise. No big deal. I'm sure most offices are like mine, take it if you want, leave it if you don't.
  • maegan0205
    maegan0205 Posts: 40
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    The government is now making Doctors hand out paperwork to everyone who comes through there offices about weight loss. It doesn't matter if your 100 lbs or 200+lbs. It doesn't even matter if you have a medical condition, surgery, therapy or anything. They are making the doctors hand this paperwork out no matter what. So what is your opinion?

    Is there a source for this info? An article, website? I would be interested in reading more about this. Not sure how I feel just yet.

    ETA: I do work in a hospital, and haven't heard anything about this new "paperwork".
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
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    Well, paperwork on "eating right and exercising" isn't the same as paperwork on "weight loss". So which is it? I wouldn't have an issue with paperwork on eating right and exercising. It SHOULD go along with a preventive visit since those things prevent a LOT of illness.
  • AuddAlise
    AuddAlise Posts: 723 Member
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    I work for a Dr and we have not heard about this.
  • deb3129
    deb3129 Posts: 1,294 Member
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    I think that doctors should try to reach out to overweight/ out of shape patients in some way, and the paperwork does not seem like it will hurt anything. I have gone to the same doctor for YEARS and was morbidly obese. He never one time said a word to me about my weight, which he knew was killing me.
  • WarriorCupcakeBlydnsr
    WarriorCupcakeBlydnsr Posts: 2,150 Member
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    My doctor's office has pamphlets in the exam rooms that you can take if you want, the only time my doctor actually gave me one was when I was first diagnosed with food allergies and it was recommendations about dealing with that. I went to my primary in Dec for bronchitis, she and I discussed my weight concerns then, but I was the one who brought up the subject in an email** the previous week and since I was in the office so we could discuss it more rather than email back and forth, she suggested an alternate meal plan than what I had been doing and gave me a sheet that had the information about what she wanted me to do.

    **the group that my doctor is in has an online communication program that you can contact the doc via email for free if it's something that may not need a visit, normal lab results, or may just need a script referal- for example when I broke my toe, I emailed her and she emailed me back saying I needed an x-ray, asked for a fax number to fax the script to, then once she got the results she emailed me with the results and, of course, to tell me to tape it to the toe next to it for up to 6 weeks for it to heal
  • Katbody10
    Katbody10 Posts: 369 Member
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    I suppose this is part of the healthcare reform. I dunno .. basically everyone starts getting clumped under the same rules whether or not they think they need it. Everyone has to follow the rules .. it's a cookie cutter process. Just like we all have to pass a driver's test to get a license. Some will ace the test.. some will barely squeak by and still get their license .. some will fail and have to come back and try again until they do pass.

    Filling out more paperwork is a pain in the *kitten* .. and frankly ... as absurd and "big brother" as it sounds .. I think I'm ready to be microchipped and just scan me for crying out loud. LOL :laugh: Get me into a mass system that no matter where I am in the world, if I get sick or in an accident .. any doctor can pull up my info and know if I'm allergic to anything .. what medications I'm on and what procedures/surgeries I may have had in my lifetime. Let my info be easily and readily shared between all doctors and medical professionals. What if I lose my faculties and don't know who I am .. or I'm too old to remember something important about my health?

    Ugh.. sometimes the debate of what is private and what isn't just exhausts me .. and I wish there was a cookie cutter system in place that I know what to expect from my doctor(s) and that I don't have to sit around for 2-4 hours in an ER or Urgent Care facility, waiting for someone to take a look at my son running a fever of 104 and vomiting. Or waiting at my doctor's office when I'm 30 minutes early only to sit around for an extra hour and half after my appt time before I'm even escorted to the exam room. What the heck is wrong with our system?

    And to be referred and or wait for approval from our insurance to have a procedure done or to be allowed to see a certain specialist ..

    oh boy .. I'll stop here .. :tongue:
  • rob1976
    rob1976 Posts: 1,328 Member
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    Educating the masses has NEVER been a bad policy...
  • MindyBlack
    MindyBlack Posts: 954 Member
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    So is it just informational? "Paperwork" makes is sound like forms to fill out and reports being made and such. If it is just informational it sounds like a good idea to me unless they are somehow following you home or making you read it on the spot. Are you forced to follow the information?
    If you don't want it leave it behind.
  • CarmenSRT
    CarmenSRT Posts: 843 Member
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    Rumors without source material other than the 'Journal of I Said So' is meaningless.

    If the OP's doctor gave them paperwork with information about eating better because they're overweight that doctor is doing their job. Tiptoeing around obesity won't do any good.

    I'm overweight still despite a 40 pound loss. I expect a decent health care provider to address my weight when I go.
  • eyeshuh
    eyeshuh Posts: 333
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    I also work for a hospital and have not heard anything about this. Either provide some kind of source or admit you saw it on Facebook.
  • GurleyGirl524
    GurleyGirl524 Posts: 578 Member
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    Is this part of the governments paperwork reduction act? (sarcasm intended)
  • SDHudgins1976
    SDHudgins1976 Posts: 140
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    How much will this extra paperwork cost us, as taxpapers and as patients? And i dont think it should be about "Weight loss" but rather "healthy eating/nutrition and exercise" I think this should also be taught regularily in schools.

    so many solutions involve teaching stuff in schools...
    When and where do we get to hold parents accountable. I'm a teacher, and I signed on because I love kids and my subject matter....
    As a parent I am working at teaching my kids how to eat more healthy and getting them active... I think it's MY responsibility to teach MY kids some things.

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