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Descripe the one time your where most dissapointed in your dr.
Drs are humans , of a sort !!LOL, they make lapses in judgements and sometimes can it be are they sometimes even WRONG?
It took me three years to get my neck diagnosed, went many places was handed many pills, last dr finally listened really listened got me an mRI and sent me to surgeon Id of been papalysised in a year or two.
the one time that made me the madest was the dr that when I described my hands going numb tole me it was impossible, handed me a script for heavy pain meds and sent me on my way. Im like I am not lying. He says we hear so many things in here youd be amazed,.
Just wondering if anyone else has similar stories,,,and friends above all else you know your own body NEVER give up do not take no for an answer. do not accept the bandaid of pills yup they help in the meantime but are not the soultion, Had I countiuned to mask my problems I coulda been dead, Pain is a symptom always listen to it...
ANYHOWS,.,,Im gonna be on here a lot so bring on the bad drs stories,,,
It took me three years to get my neck diagnosed, went many places was handed many pills, last dr finally listened really listened got me an mRI and sent me to surgeon Id of been papalysised in a year or two.
the one time that made me the madest was the dr that when I described my hands going numb tole me it was impossible, handed me a script for heavy pain meds and sent me on my way. Im like I am not lying. He says we hear so many things in here youd be amazed,.
Just wondering if anyone else has similar stories,,,and friends above all else you know your own body NEVER give up do not take no for an answer. do not accept the bandaid of pills yup they help in the meantime but are not the soultion, Had I countiuned to mask my problems I coulda been dead, Pain is a symptom always listen to it...
ANYHOWS,.,,Im gonna be on here a lot so bring on the bad drs stories,,,
Very long story short .. my daughter's allergist insisted my daughter had scabies and that I was in denial in that it affects all social classes. OK .. I disagreed and told him he was wrong and I refused to use a pesticide wash on a highly allergic 8yr old girl and went straight to my dermatologist who took one look and laughed that "those who don't know shouldn't profess to know in areas outside their domain". And that was 8 yrs ago and it was not scabies .. it was an allergic dermatitis of some sort that wasn't common .. can you believe it ?
Yep. Trusting one's instincts is so vital.
He said he'd do a skin culture if it didn't clear up in 48hrs and it was gone by then!
Yep. Trusting one's instincts is so vital.
He said he'd do a skin culture if it didn't clear up in 48hrs and it was gone by then!
WOW! You guys have some really bad stories!! SS the drs never listen!! Mine aren't that severe but my first dr i got in my hometown seemed nice until parts of my pap came bk bad he then insisted on getting my boyfriends (now DH) name for a script as well as me and he then very rudely told me he could only treat us and not the other girl my BF was cheating on me with!! Needless to say i wont go to him or any other Indian dr in my town (no pun intended)
my new dr not as bad but not so smart either! It's a decent size clinic so i went upstairs to the GYN dr for a rash down yonder i thought it was down there i needed a gyn they looked at me saw my Eczema on my legs and insisted i had down there too so i got sent downstairs to the family dr they could not even figure it out and embarrasing enough i had to show like 10 people my crotch!! they gave me some stupid cream that didnt work and i had 2 go bk yet again a week later cus i was hurting so much FINALLY after all this i get told I have Candia some yeast infection stuff and have to get an anti biotic for it!! And all the while GYN could have diagnosed a simple yeast infection!! and the best part the price for these visits is high enough i cant go bk anymore which bites cus i wanted my fertility testing done and now its out the window again!!
my new dr not as bad but not so smart either! It's a decent size clinic so i went upstairs to the GYN dr for a rash down yonder i thought it was down there i needed a gyn they looked at me saw my Eczema on my legs and insisted i had down there too so i got sent downstairs to the family dr they could not even figure it out and embarrasing enough i had to show like 10 people my crotch!! they gave me some stupid cream that didnt work and i had 2 go bk yet again a week later cus i was hurting so much FINALLY after all this i get told I have Candia some yeast infection stuff and have to get an anti biotic for it!! And all the while GYN could have diagnosed a simple yeast infection!! and the best part the price for these visits is high enough i cant go bk anymore which bites cus i wanted my fertility testing done and now its out the window again!!
I had a hysterectomy several years ago, went to the family doc to get hormones or something to increase the sex drive. So I was sent for a mammogram to one doctor then to a gyno for a pelvic (uh? nothing in there folks?), then to a shrink to talk about my sexual issues, and told to come back in a month and we would talk about it. It was all I could muster for the one doctor payment to the family physician much less the others, so I said to h#ll with it. Just a money game to me. Whatever happened to the family doctor handling it?
what a shame, when Im a PCT I will always assume my patients are telling the truth, even an addict could come in with real symptoms of a different aliment . ughhhh
The most disappointed I have ever been was with the pregnancy of my daughter. At the end I started loosing fluid with her and new I was because I had gone through it with my son. I tried telling my OB and he kept telling me that I was peeing on myself and all was fine. I told him no I am not I am loosing my water I know I am. I begged him to do a sonogram and refused saying its against hospital policies to perform more than two and I had already had two sonograms.
Finally two weeks after I told him I was loosing water I went into labor with my daughter and sure enough I had a dry labor due to not having any fluid and she ingested her own muconium.(sp) and was very sick at birth. They sent her cord off for testing and everything because of her illness. She had to have her lungs sucked out and scrapped at birth and before she could take her first breathe. Now she has asthma and develops upper respitory illnesses easily. I was once told by a repitory therapist that her delivery is the reason for her staying sick.
All this could have been avoided if he would have just listened to me!
Finally two weeks after I told him I was loosing water I went into labor with my daughter and sure enough I had a dry labor due to not having any fluid and she ingested her own muconium.(sp) and was very sick at birth. They sent her cord off for testing and everything because of her illness. She had to have her lungs sucked out and scrapped at birth and before she could take her first breathe. Now she has asthma and develops upper respitory illnesses easily. I was once told by a repitory therapist that her delivery is the reason for her staying sick.
All this could have been avoided if he would have just listened to me!
Almost every time I go to my pcp these days, I'm disappointed beyond belief!!!
I had one doctor who insisted I was an alcoholic because my red blood cells were enlarged and he SWORE that alcoholism is the ONLY thing that causes that. A few years later, I was going to a different doctor - the one I have now and HE noticed it also, send me for lab work and dx'd pernicious anemia, which causes enlarged red blood cells also; plus I had been complaining of fatigue for years and no one would listen. The one doctor insisted that I was tired because I was depressed and even put me on paxil for a while. The paxil made me even MORE tired and I just quit taking it - boy was the dr upset with me!!! That, when I should have been receiving vitamin B12 shots all that time.
And then there's my current pcp - after he dx'd the pernicious anemia, I still kept telling him I thought there was something wrong and he insisted there wasn't. I finally got his NP to send me for thyroid testing and it was discovered that I'm hypO. Well, after I got started on meds and still couldn't lose any weight - my pcp looked at me one day and sort of "sneered" at me and said "There's nothing ELSE wrong with you - you just need to MOVE MORE" then he turned on his heel and left the room. Then there was the day he found out I was going to an endo and the endo had started me on cytomel - oh by the way, there WAS something else wrong..lol - my pcp stammered and stuttered for a bit, then said "Well, I recently read that not everyone does well on synthroid alone" -- I'm sitting there thinking "RECENTLY READ?" If he didn't know the options for treating thyroid disease, why was he trying to treat it????
I think I might have pre-diabetes, but my pcp won't listen to me, nor would he look at the record of my fasting blood sugars that I tried to show him............most of them over 100.................
Always quick to blame ME if I don't feel better right away - like *I* am not following directions or something.....................
Not as serious as some others, but definitely very annoying....
I had one doctor who insisted I was an alcoholic because my red blood cells were enlarged and he SWORE that alcoholism is the ONLY thing that causes that. A few years later, I was going to a different doctor - the one I have now and HE noticed it also, send me for lab work and dx'd pernicious anemia, which causes enlarged red blood cells also; plus I had been complaining of fatigue for years and no one would listen. The one doctor insisted that I was tired because I was depressed and even put me on paxil for a while. The paxil made me even MORE tired and I just quit taking it - boy was the dr upset with me!!! That, when I should have been receiving vitamin B12 shots all that time.
And then there's my current pcp - after he dx'd the pernicious anemia, I still kept telling him I thought there was something wrong and he insisted there wasn't. I finally got his NP to send me for thyroid testing and it was discovered that I'm hypO. Well, after I got started on meds and still couldn't lose any weight - my pcp looked at me one day and sort of "sneered" at me and said "There's nothing ELSE wrong with you - you just need to MOVE MORE" then he turned on his heel and left the room. Then there was the day he found out I was going to an endo and the endo had started me on cytomel - oh by the way, there WAS something else wrong..lol - my pcp stammered and stuttered for a bit, then said "Well, I recently read that not everyone does well on synthroid alone" -- I'm sitting there thinking "RECENTLY READ?" If he didn't know the options for treating thyroid disease, why was he trying to treat it????
I think I might have pre-diabetes, but my pcp won't listen to me, nor would he look at the record of my fasting blood sugars that I tried to show him............most of them over 100.................
Always quick to blame ME if I don't feel better right away - like *I* am not following directions or something.....................
Not as serious as some others, but definitely very annoying....
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