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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy
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Every single health professional I've been in contact in the last couple of decades has been a paragon of compassion and professionalism versus those I met earlier in life. The training has really done a great job!
The only ones I have a continuing struggle, and always have, are the administrators. Health care has gotten more risk-averse, so hello mountains of paperwork, very insulting paperwork.
Here, I went to a cardiologist. For cardiologist service. I'm looking for a highly-qualified service provider to investigate a very complicated issue. I go there and I'm given this form to sign:
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I refused to sign and told the office manager that if there is any reason why I need my medication, I expect to call the answering service which will then call the doctor, who will finish his lunch or whatever and call the pharmacy. Same day, any day, Sunday, holiday. And if they want to count my pills they're going to need a locksmith and a warrant.
The doctor wasn't even aware they gave this to everyone. I got my treatment. |
I’ve had some bad experiences. When I coughed a hole in my lung and was admitted overnight they wanted to run up the bill. First the ordered 3 separate blood tests to be done overnight to see if my levels changed. After the first test I declined the next 2 saying it was ridiculous and the nurse said “well if we detect any anomalies in your first test you HAVE to have the other 2”. I said fine, and sure enough no issues
Then the next day they said I may have a hole in my esophagus too, which was why I wasn’t allowed to eat any food or drink any water the whole 2 days there. They only brought me ice chips and I told the MA, “hey man, I’m just going to leave these chips sitting here until they melt and turn into water and drink that, how about we skip all that and just bring me water now?” but he said he couldn’t do it. The next day they wouldn’t discharge me until they did a test where they filled my stomach with some glowing radioactive liquid that they could use to see if there were any holes in my
Esophagus too. They said if I DID have a hole there and I ate food, the food would get out into my chest cavity and cause a life threatening meningital infection. I said “FYI I ate a sandwich before coming here AFTER the symptoms began. They said I might have just been lucky the food passed BY the hole then. I said no more tests, let me leave. The medical director came over and gave me a hard time but ultimately eventually let me leave. $22,000 bill still, woulda probably been over 30k had they been able to continue to ring it up
Then later, I fucked up my elbow nerve playing this game P99, and had to get a nerve conductor test. The doctor was some crusty old white dude who immediately said “I don’t want any crying, or yelling, or swearing”. I started to laugh assuming it was a joke and he just stared at me. So then I asked “is this going to hurt?” And be said “yes, that’s why I said no yelling, no crying, and no cussing”. And I wanted to say “hey dude I’m paying YOU. I’m the customer here” But I said nothing. Then later I asked what would happen if I chose NOT to get the surgery he recommended to fix the nerve and he just said “regret”, and wouldn’t even elaborate. Dude was a cunt
Then when I was much younger but still an adult I had a doctor rupture my eardrum when trying to flush out wax that had built up. The pain was unlike anything I had felt, my vision went white, I broke into a sweat and yelled “STOP!” and involuntarily balled up a fist to punch the doctor in pure self-defense because it felt like he had just shot me in the head with a gun. I slumped over and focused on not throwing up. The doctor CLAIMED, that the wax had peeled the inside of my eardrum off as it came loose, but my family believed he just went too hard with the water gun. My ear bled out the entire rest of the day
So I’ve had some bad medical experiences which is why I try to avoid doctors and hospitals as much as possible