Sierra Medical Center

I have in hand my labs dated 9.16.93.  They were done at the request of my friend She ..., who was the HealthCare Nurse at the time.  The lab focuses on Cardiac Risks and those values are addressed.   I have since required 3 stents, had one or two MIs and apparently her predictions were right.  However back then I was xercisin, working 16 hour days.  So I did what I was suppose to and it didnt keep me from being a health wreck.

Now one value stands out that is directly correlated to Heart Health and that is Uric Acid.   My uric acid was 6.9 and this spells, hyperuricemia, or better known as GOUT.  Gout is defined as any uric acid level above 6.0.  This shows that the friend, lab, and hospital failed to use the computers effectively.  

If they had consulted the Rheumatology Bible, they would have know this and the footnote would have instructed the friend, hospital, lab, and patient to see an endocrinologist  or a rheumatologist.  Perhaps even obtain a urine sample to confirm the diagnostic lab.

Should the Nurse, Health Nurse, Friend, Hospital, Lab, be doing lab work and evaluating it?  Is this not malpractice?

It is now 2013 and I am under treatment for gout.  A self impose treatment using diet.
My last conversation with a clinician was over the blood work and my uric acid level was 6.9.  The reference range was 2.5 to 7.0 mg/dl.  My VA clinician was not going to treat the gout until the reference range was met, or exceeded.

Apparently the entire city of El Paso holds to these standards and they are not only wrong, but a detriment to the patient.  Certainly it is safe to say that the pathologist in El Paso are incompetent.

You should know that I have kidney stones, a renal cyst, calcium deposits in my eye, calcified prostate and calcified lymph-nodes.  I suppose that I could blame my friend the nurse, what I cant do is exculpate her.  Anyway this is typical healthcare in El Paso, at Sierra and at the VA.

We now have a medical school, I wonder if they cover this in Anatomy and Physiology 101.  Im betting no .... and that is why people need to read and study.