[benmanns]

However, as discovered during a family heart crisis, medical professionals will routinely ignore any kind of heart rate or blood pressure readings that you take at home. In my experience, it's not until they see the same measurement during the ($$$) ambulance ride that they take it seriously.

[WWLink]

It really really depends on the office and their practices. I visited (and later brought my mom) to a cardiologist who is a terrible doctor, but his office does instruct you to log your blood pressure and then they review the logs. So at least they do that right.

What they do wrong: Queuing up 10 patients at a time, seeing like 60 a day, and then jumping from room to room like a kid with a bad case of ADHD. Dude told the assistant to give my mom 1 bp medicine, rushed out to another patient, and then rushed back 2 minutes later "no, give her this one instead!"

I can't trust that LOL. Our primary doctor got mad at me for taking my mom there and called the cardiologist a "f-ing a-hole" because he had a bad experience with his aunt going there LOL.

Honestly I ... I won't be going back, but I don't hate the dude. He's generally spot-on, even if he's rushed and his medicine advice is sketchy.

[ghaff]

My primary care recommended taking my BP at home periodically and even wanted to calibrate my home system against the office system. I do tend to test higher in the doctor's office but I still periodically take it at home.