HeartScreeningMinuteClinicsVoucher2019
from
SituationalAssessmentTemplate2017
Introduction/Definition/etc
Heart Month with association(s)
and was emailed a voucher
for a free screening including:
A1C
BP
Weight
BMI
Lipids
LDL/HDL & ratio
and what the process was like,
for me...
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So through the ExtraBucks/
customer card at CVSConspiracy2017
but really probably a business within
a business (think coffee shop in large
department store...)
and signed up for emails,
actually read one carefully, follow the links,
and drilling down, to a PDF file,
read that carefully,
show by smartphone
(download) instead of printing
(no ink, $$$$)
Only works at MinuteClinics
and they are inside CVS
some in Target stores,
and not close to 24 hour,
(some with evening hours, afaict)
even if the host store is, normal business type
hours, maybe 7 am store opens,
8.30 am MinuteClinic start,
or 9.00 am depending
sign in procedure without printout says to
show to the person,
but which one?
clerk of pharmacy store?
or person providing service
(a chicken and egg problem, which is first?)?
but have to do something to get to that point
the Point of Sale touchscreen device
handling appointments,
call in options, not for me,
has an odd arrow to go to next page,
not select answer and live,
to continue on,
and wanted a lot of information,
type of appointment
physical
(some billing info
for the provider
on the voucher said that)
number of people appointment is for,
is it you?, self? (self parenting may have
helped for pedatrition (sp?) only,
Name, Address, BirthDate
method of payment: no insurance,
eventually to sign (type name to sign)
and permission to contact: generally no,
phone, email,
marketing: No
survey: yes,
and by what means, etc...
reading on the screen difficult, and annoying
sign, and no copies of what you are reading,
read this in the waiting time,
decide if you really want to assume so
much risks/ liability, exclusions, etc
besides going on your permanent record/
health records, both good and bad,
follow you, and adding to the records,
getting copies after the fact,
electronically mailed to you,
paper forms disappear over time,
pharmacies and doctors, increasingly
work for insurers, and Big Pharm
more than the patients
etc...
One guy waiting a little past opening time,
turns out he is doing the same thing,
and she is learning the process,
i can put my mbility aid behind the door,
which blocks the AED (automatic E:_emergency?
device/defibrulator) and doesn't fit,
hanging out and the tax sales boxes display
is in the way of taht,
the point of sale entry touchscreen and a door,
all in some of them where a separate office
would fit, no windows, signs, etc,
some modified stores have them, most don't
some renovate to make room, afaict,
privacy lacking, afaict, a big waiting
area,
i have to ask to use a bathroom,
wait time about 30 minutes,
my appointment is going to be
about that long, and an older guy shows
up with a book, i'm talkative,
(overly, and even i notice it,
guy behind me on entry,
warming up, some laughing staff
spraying people,
oxygen cleaning process,
blow off excess tank filling O2,
helium balloon filling Nitrous,
recently sprayed for bugs,
love juice Muslim targeting,
MJ like cannibis THC vapes,
all to be avoided, checked,
ruled out, etc)
but he wants to read his book,
about a border wall, and old,
we are still dealing with that
and Trump, something happening
recently besides ParkLand anniversary,
and more shootings...
Lots of talking I'm still calming down,
I dropped the phone in the toilet,
there is no soap in the staff
bathroom, had to go by an
Employee Only Alarms Sound sign
to get there, not the break room,
only one bathroom, clean enough,
I guess, i don't usually put my hand in the toilet,
water seemed clean, but hand dryer
blow out the water, dry it quickly
it was on, and turns out it works,
i guess the sealing/ water resistance
not mentioned in packaging
nor reviewed in
TCLLXA502DL2018
not getting to the battery
vs not destroyed by liquid,
i had dropped it in the sink
into a bowl with water,
and survived that, not surprised
it still worked, glad,
but more on that, eventually...
The smartphone device had my
voucher/ coupon,
a fasting test
for lipids, so 12 hours of not eating,
skip breakfast, late night eating,
and first thing in the morning,
carry food, but not anything they
would sell, only Thursdays,
in February with Voucher,
and needed t o do it,
turned out to be Valentine's Day,
VD day sometime call it,
mostly,
Diabetes, turns out A1C
was fine, but risks for
heart, despite losing weigh,
exercise, and probably
code out like James Fixx,
the running author guy
from the 1970's
despite lifestyle changes,
in the face of epidemialogical (sp?)
longitudinal studies Framingham?
where a town was studied for decades,
for risk factors, genetics, etc...
Odd stuff about getting prison uniforms
for an art project,
from my old job comment,
really unrelated, and leading to discriminatory,
stereotypes, (like all women have abortions)
and upon exit a big authoritarian guy
coming at me,
as i was leaving didn't yield in the isle,
for me to exit
a makeup a wider one,
but something bad happening,
someone trying to interject into the
appointment/ conversation,
in a private room, door closed,
some odd switch us delays
(learned how on the first guy)
supposedly private and HIPAA
more like separate from belongings,
find a way to charge, see if
started on the wrong person,
had to open up my phone several time
(3+) hitting buttons, screen saver,
and not wanting to,
some other oddities,
and a feeling of being too far up,
sprayed? laughing staff guy,
with scanner device,
scan a code/ barcode on paper,
some two step sign in process,
later paperwork showed expenses
for test, and patient part, iirc)
take away, but needed to send to
primary care physician,
they could not send to mine,
though not current
claimed he was a pediatrition (sp?),
ONLY. and could not,
glad to get there,
relatively little hassle about the mobility,
but also being set up,
and normal craziness following,
Valentine's Day, people buying
last minute for that, as the pharmacy
in the back opened up,
and on to other things,
it took longer, and made me late
for something, but not a lot,
just rushing out,
and some hassling/
attempts at falsely charged
with something, in a ritzy/
stuck up/ hateful part of town,
typical, and why i don't do some
things around there much anymore,
exlusiveity costs, imnsho...
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What's Missing?
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Assumptions
People care
(inmho,
largely False in corporate environments)
Non profits, even healthcare, are ethical
(likely profit/ stay in business,
and heart and other health associations
much less medical systems
are funded, mostly be Pharm afaict...
Health values relate to risk,
which are statistical,
and Statistics Lie,or formally
How to Lie with Statistics,
(see book, for profit)
Diet and exercise are recommended
for many things,
but you can still die,
James Fixx like,
exercising, and i don't even smoke,
drink, etc, though my food,
etc GoodFoodie/BadFoodie ratio
may be questionable...
(Chocolates on that VD day,
not accepted)
Time Limits
Only in February
Only on Thursdays,
only at MinuteClinics
not just any CVS,
and other Restrictions/
fine print,
with Voucher,
so have to be a bonus
card, email offers person, etc
and other problems,
scheduling, appointments,
160 min wait with two of us
there, after his appointment set,
a longer appointment, i guess
times are rationed?
and can i leave to go shop
elsewhere? visit my car,
will they call me, when ready,
etc, all Not an option, afaict,
on the automated version,
but less snobbish machine,
than some typical
waiting areas,
presales FUD for pharm likely...
Links
Non transferable, not photo copies,
etc, so the pdf not going up here,
but some of the text might,
exclusions, fine print, etc...
Statins
Pharm
v. Pharm
CVSConspiracy2017
TCLLXA502DL2018
Hate2017
RetailDiscrimination2012
FortheLoveofScottbyJoHamilton2012
and many more...
(do some foot/legwork,
homework/ research, checking,
yourselves)...
James (Fuller?) Fixx
Framingham Study
Lipids
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Got some numbers,
some difference in weight,
and not taken shoes off,
(she, an overweight person herself,
allows an agreed upon weight
discussed between,
but 190 still seemed high to me,
BMI from Higi (competing companies)
got down into healthy, but recent
snow, and other bad weather,
plus HamiltonBeachBreadMaker2019
Breads2019
etc may have increased,
besides typical higher amounts of
clothing, heavier with the colder weather,
can only take off so much in public,
have to weigh what i normally carry
around, (keys, devices,
write down the clothes worn,
especially relatively heavy boots/shoes,
etc)
food scale, or bathroom scale
early am weighing, naked,
before shower, and maybe add that
to my routine, glasses and seeing
the scale at my feet, batteries,
logging with BlueTooth on newer devices,
etc to be considered, later...
Presales and problems with screenings
still exist, preexisting conditions, who all
gets the information, not anonymous
like some STD screenings,
and privacy of the store,
as opposed to a doctors office,
just about anyone can walk in,
and some problems likely did,
separating from stuff
("it's a small office"),
typical, but other issues,
not believing much of what i said,
likely called authorities,
and discrimination
typical of CVSConspiracy2017
not that they are the only ones that do it,
RetailDiscrimination2012
and many other instances
Hate2017
etc. abound...
Free visits have tricks,
many which are likely on this,
including who is paying,
statin (Liptor (tm elsewhere), etc)
generally over prescribing,
an NP (Nurse Practitioner)
can write scripts
for somethings (minor, not Class x,y,z?),
and the industry/ direct marketing to
patients, consumers, uninformed,
fully consenting adults, much less
kids, are still large issues...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What are your numbers?
A1C?
LDL
HDL
ratio?
Weight
Height?
BMI
etc?
What discrimination have you encountered?
Is a free test/screening worth
the risks of being (Falsely) charged with
anything by haters?
What can you do to prevent that?
For yourself?
For others?
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