Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

In addition to my daughter's issues with hospitalists, I was hospitalized with pancreatitis that turned out to have been caused by COVID.

He went through the objective things which cause pancreatitis and found nothing that would have triggered it (gall stones, certain medical procedures or medicines), and finding none, he reverted to his prejudice that pancreatitis is alcohol-induced - and I must just be lying about it. He repeatedly, in front of any visitors who happened to be present, told me I just needed to go home and stop drinking. I'm not a tee-totaler, but I don't drink the quantities or for the duration which trigger pancreatitis. So I bullied him into a gastric consult. (Possible since I have traditional Medicare and don't have to jump through lots of hoops to approve a consult) They ran lots of tests and diagnosed two additional conditions. After I was released and was able to consult a pancreatic specialist, he confirmed what I suspected all along - it (and the other conditions, plus a third which wasn't diagnosed in the hospital) were caused by COVID.

And it's not like the connection was unknown at the time, or that I hadn't given the doctor a full history - which included a recent bout with COVID.