What if the doctor is documenting the anemia as a seperate identity?
This is a big problem for me, especially with MDS. In fact, I have posted several posts in the forums trying to get some assistance in this subject.
Also, this post brought this subject back up for me so I decided to go have a conversation, at length, with one of my physicians. He insists that you can have 2 different types of anemia at once. I brought up the example of "Ok so, say the patient has anemia due to CKD stage III. Can they have Iron Deficiency Anemia also?" His answer was, "Yes, absolutely." Then he looked at me like I had grown a second head and told me that he would have thought that I would have been able to come to that conclusion on my own, very easily, but we won't get into all that.... (he can be such a ___ ) Lol. I told him I'd get back to him on that when I earned my medical degree. Thinking about it now though, why wouldn't it be possible to develop more than one type of anemia when their causes, as well as treatment methods, are different?
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I would definitely talk to the physician and see what his/her stance on this subject is. I know that's not possible for some of you guys though. I sure am glad that I have a good relationship with my docs and that they are so easily accessible to me when I need to talk to them about something. You should see some of the documentation I have to deal with sometimes... some of it just doesn't make sense.