When I try to make a bowel movement my blood pressure goes up to 230 over 184. I dated a nurse at one time and thought it would be neat to see how much going to the bathroom causes temporary high blood pressure.
My head usually thumps for a minute following my heartbeat. I lose hearing in my left ear along with heavy shadowing in my eyesight but always goes away.
Anytime I get checked, it's always slightly elevated and most times blamed for general anxiety when having to go to the doctor's office.
I would say there's a necessity for checking the blood pressure when the patient is being seen for anything relative to a side effect in the focus of the heart.
If there isn't a direct correlation or non-relative to the situation, it's going to be quite difficult to create this safehold, even though it is a good one, but a costly one at that. <<<<<That's how the government looks at that.
The equipment
The training of staff
Time added to routine of service
Finding qualified help to do the task
The human body thankfully can operate with numerous problems and function. I could not hold my mechanic responsible for tire problems resulting from incorrect tire pressure, when knowing I myself should be checking it myself. It's an understanding.
Yes, we are not doctors and the doctor when they see you goes solely off symptoms and "why you are here". IF it is just in context of a checkup, of course, it's par for the course as a general checkoff list that picks up potential problems that might directly or indirectly cause an initial problem or one soon to come.
When I hear of those with heart conditions, all of them state they never took aspirin. Now, we all know that minimal doses of this product is life saving......it's general public knowledge and has been that way for years.
Doctors or other health related industries might object to this additional procedure for fear of obligation, disclosure and subjective hardship as the warning signs of high blood pressure would delay/cancel soon to come operations, surgeries or blood testing. It's encompasses a large thought process in many ways that probably has a slim chance of moving forward, but certainly worth the effort.
I did work for a RN and a OBYGN, husband and wife both work at the same hospital. The husband told me what to expect in the next 10-12 years.
Given the level of difficulty in regards to study to become a doctor, the massive debt that accompanies the schooling, the political atmosphere that is so commonly found within the walls of medical establishments....
The "why bother" attitude is coming due to malpractice insurance, the ability to step around the hands on situation because the effort plus the investment doesn't equate to the compensation and the massive responsibility.
Kind of like being on the front lines, the guys in the tanks are safer than the guys in boots on the ground. The carrot on the string isn't as glamorous as one might think, having to be held personally responsible from the birth to age 19 *stated by the obygn*.
Who wants that responsibility? Who wants 70-100 hours of week, always on call because your level of knowledge is important, your referral and recommendation needed at all hours of the day and night.
No one holds still for the doctor's personal time.
Personally, there's no way I'd want their job. For some they have to make $700,000 to a millon a year; They're time at home is usually sleeping, their time with family is usually on vacations, that's it for the most of them.
Tough, it's tough. You always have to be able to be contacted... you are always being corralled and disciplined by what the insurance companies state that YOU are charging. It's not up to you to decide.
The fellow and his nice wife, it was an interesting conversation last night.