I went to a pain doctor for pain relief. The 3 things (5 attempts) that
he did did not work. Five months after my last treatment, I'm reviewing
the MRI report about my back that he was given and I find a mistake in
the History, that it says I had pain down my leg into my foot [called sciatica]. I never had such pain and I never told anyone I did. I
remember being asked and remember saying No. (Since we have more access
to medical records, I've found many factual mistakes, small and large,
in mine. It's scary.) I didn't know the pain doctor when I got the
MRI. This mistake is not the pain doctor's fault, and I've written that
to him.

I've asked him if would have done anything differently (for example,
targeted different vertebrae) had he known there was no leg or foot
pain.

He answers that typically he relies on the history he himself takes and
not on what it says there. But I'm not interested in "typically". And
I'm not asking him to recall what he thought at the time. I want him to
look at his records, see what he did, and tell me if that agrees with
what he would have done had if I had no pain in my leg or foot.

He wants me to come into the office to discuss my plan of care, but his
email did not say that would include answering my two questions. Does he perhaps think I'm gathering information with which to sue him??

Question 1. Does he not have a legal obligation to tell me what he did,
and in this case to answer my 2 yes or no questions*** about prior
treatment, and whether a new set of shots would be of value to me?????

Question 2. Does he have the right to force me to come into the office
for what is under 5 minutes, including pleasantries, to answer 2 yes or
no questions. When he could answer them by email or by phone.

He plans to bill me or Medicare and my supplemental for another
appointment. Shouldnt' answering these two questions*** have been
included in the prior billing? I don't want to come in because I'm in
pain, I have other things to do at home (where I'm not in pain), he's
already there but it I have to get dressed, leave in time to get there
early so I won't be late, walk to the car (slight pain), walk from the
car (slightly worse pain), wait in his waiting room, walk back to the
car in pain, walk from the car to my house, in pain. 3 hours, in the
middle of my day, just for 2 minutes of talking, while he is already
there and it will take him 2 minutes.

For other reasons I have not mentioned here, my plan of care is to avoid
him as much as possible. But he's the only one who can answer these two
yes or no questions.

***
A) Knowing now that I had no leg or foot pain, do you agree with
where you put the shots?
B) If the answer is no, or yes, would a new series of shots be of
value to me?

--
I think you can tell, but just to be sure:
I am not a lawyer.

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