Health Boards
Thu-04-11-2021, 14:14 PM
Just as sharing about your psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis helps others, reading about your experiences in the medical system, your experiences with doctors, lightens that feeling that you are all alone with this and increases the understanding of how different practices operate, how to be prepared for appointments.
It's fun to join in the "Off Topic" areas and get to know members here, but the help for living with Psoriasis and making the best decisions is so very valuable in this club. Fred, this forum has already helped me and is continuing to help. I'm really glad I found Psoriasis Club. (I know it sounds like I'm too much on gratitude, but it is really sincere gratitude, and I can't help feeling it.)
Thanks, Fred, TL, and Kat for your replies.
Fred, the PASI and Quality of Life Index and links--so helpful!
TL, the punch biopsies were also really expensive. Not only the dermatologist fee for taking them in addition to the exam fee, but also then paying the pathologist. And he started out by saying it looks like psoriasis but we need to take samples to be sure or in case it's something else. I will be asking about treatments I've read about here.
Kat, your doctor who was able to spend time building relationships with his patients when he was in a smaller practice and then was forced to rush through so many . . . that must have also been stressful for him. I wonder if it made his enjoyment of medicine lessen or if the extra money he may have earned made up for that.
It's fun to join in the "Off Topic" areas and get to know members here, but the help for living with Psoriasis and making the best decisions is so very valuable in this club. Fred, this forum has already helped me and is continuing to help. I'm really glad I found Psoriasis Club. (I know it sounds like I'm too much on gratitude, but it is really sincere gratitude, and I can't help feeling it.)
Thanks, Fred, TL, and Kat for your replies.
Fred, the PASI and Quality of Life Index and links--so helpful!
TL, the punch biopsies were also really expensive. Not only the dermatologist fee for taking them in addition to the exam fee, but also then paying the pathologist. And he started out by saying it looks like psoriasis but we need to take samples to be sure or in case it's something else. I will be asking about treatments I've read about here.
Kat, your doctor who was able to spend time building relationships with his patients when he was in a smaller practice and then was forced to rush through so many . . . that must have also been stressful for him. I wonder if it made his enjoyment of medicine lessen or if the extra money he may have earned made up for that.