Bad experiences with doctors

Ho ho... I have just posted this elsewhere but I shall repost it here: context = my second trip to the rubbish doctor to try and fix my head.

Doctor shrugged shoulders and said "the problem is I don't really know what's up with you. I'm not a mental health person, I'm a GP, you know??" and stared at me with the beady eyes of a sow...

She also said "do you think you have a mental health problem"? I look round at the scenery ie DOCTORS OFFICE and ponder 'would i be here if I thought I didn't' - and say 'possibly, i *am* at the doctors about it' - she NODS and makes notes.

I really can't be doing with be shoved around for months whilst people ask me stupid questions. I guess I will go to this thing but this time I will have a script. I don't care if I tell the exact truth or NOT anymore as long as someone can say SOMETHING to me instead of wasting my damn time.

After admitting she had no clue (she could have said this on meeting number ONE) she is going to refer me to some "young peoples advice service". COME ON I've *worked* in social services does she think I'm going to fall for that? SHE IS RUBBISH.

This was about 40 minutes ago, by the way. I am on the interweb to SOOTHE MY FRAZZLED BRANE.

Also apparently I have HIGH BLUD PRESSURE well after that spiel doc, do we wonder why this might be???

I left the doctor's surgery once and couldn't stop crying afterwards. The last thing he said (without looking up) was to move the chair back round. Apparently I had shifted it a bit when I sat down. I couldn't believe he was asking me to do this, so I said 'Sorry?' and he just pointed at the chair and made a motion. I try to avoid going to the doctor's.

I remember seeking advice from a doctor as I didn't seem to coping with things too well & he said nothing helpful & just stared at my chest the whole time. which left me really upset afterwards. i changed surgery cos i moved & they are really helpful & friendly, although i am sure they know my first name whenever i go there as i seem to be in there all of the time!

Starry - I know how you feel, I had almost the exact same Q from a doc once, I went in saying I was all stressed out, depressed, didnt know if anything might be the matter, bla bla and she said "well do you think youre depressed?". I felt stupid, and it took another year or so before I actually did get proper help as a result :/

my doctor is a nice guy, a few years ago I had shingles and he was extremely helpful. My parents were away and he called to the house to ask if I needed anything and to see if I was ok. He's very easy to go and see which is all you want I guess.

I am seriously going to write a script if I talk to someone else about it.

That or attempt a "grow yer own prozac kit" (science blog to thread).

the doctor in "Jam" owns this thread

Shingles? Owch thats sposed to be very painful Ronan, sorry to hear you had that :/

As a Doctor, I find it distasteful that an internet forum such as this could posit the notion that as hardworking professionals, the good men and women who work in the healthcare sector in this country could be anything less than honest, model, upstanding and frequently irreplaceable contributors to society.

"We've got the same lob-rate!"

i know someone who went to shipman a couple of times as a teenager!!

(she says he was surly and unhelpful)

I once went to a VD clinic at the insistance of my then-girlfriend who kept getting thrush no matter how much yoghurt she slavered on her.. anyway, the doctor was a short man in his 40s with one of those Elton John haircut-of-a-6-year-old-boy wigs. The first thing he asked for was a urine sample and he handed me a large beaker. I was busting and managed to fill the beaker to the brim. (I didn't really occur to me that an inch or so would have probably been sufficient.) Carefully, holding the beaker with two hands I returned to the examination room and he took the beaker saying "My, you have been busy! Clever boy!" and told me to strip from the waist down. The actual tests were fairly painless, his cold hands aside, except for when he produced an oversize cotton bud thing that he calmly wedged down my urethra and twisted. I winced in pain - dry cotton can be particularly abrasive - and noticing my reaction he squeezed my shoulder with the hand that wasn't cupping my penis and in the creepiest voice imaginable said: "Oh, did I hurt you? I didn't realise. If I was going to *hurt* you I would have *told* you." I was more than a little freaked out and luckily that was the last test and I could flee. "Um, thanks.", I said. "My pleasure!" he grinned back.

There are so many doctors who really should be struck off (it makes me esp. cross that they earn the same as the fucking heroic ones you come across sometimes).

My only bad experience was going to the university doctor with a headache like no other a temperature of 40+?C and being send home with some cocodamol (paracetemol and codeine) and told to go to bed. Within 6 hours I had been blue lighted to hospital with suspected meningitis. as they were getting ready to do the spinal tap, (all other test having come up negative) some bright young nurse decided to hitch me up to a blood gas analyser and discovered that there was far less oxygen in my blood than was good for a healthy and fulfilling life. 1 chest x-ray later, and TB being ruled out they diagnosed me with mild abnormal pneumonia filled me up with antibiotics kept me in overnight and sent me home.

Oh I had a terrible experience when I was 13 or 14, the old family doctor was something of a loose cannon in his old age, you could smell the whiskey. He prescribed an anti-biotic for a chest infection I had which I then reacted to causing me to be sick for some time longer. Then he prescribed another anti-biotic which I also reacted to, in total I missed around a month of school. It was silly stuff, my pharmacist mother was raging.

I don't wish to derail the thread, but reading this has reminded me for some reason of something really funny in the "Doctor Chris" bits on This Morning, when Richard & Judy were still on it. Some bloke called them up, complaining that he had a complaint with his penis. Dr Chris asked him what symptoms he had, and this guy said that his penis tended to swell up, which would result in a "milky discharge". Obviously he was taking the piss but rather hilariously Dr Chris didn't twig at all, and kept asking him lots of questions about other things, to which the guy kept replying no, with Dr Chris getting more and more baffled until Richard Madeley finally cottoned on and sternly cut the man off, and they went onto the next caller without any comment.

[doctor, in the voice of someone who thinks i'm a hypochondriac] "so, do you regularly take recreational drugs?"

[me, horrified] "er, no, none at all actually"

The worst incident happened to my sister, not me. Recently she went to the doctor because she was having problems with a pain in her side. The doctor was an elderly man, and he told her (without even bothering to look at her records or give her much of an examination) that her problem was she was single, and if she had a husband to take care of she wouldn't have time to imagine ailments or pains. If it had been me I would have ended up punching him, elderly or not.

surly and unhelpful medic, dr harold shipman!

Experiences w/ doctors have mostly been quite good, but I did have one about eight years ago who attempted to take a blood sample, couldn't find a vein for a number of painful attempts, then found one & neglected to attach a container to the needle/tube contraption; while he was turned away I started spurting blood all over myself/the room...

I actually am very reluctant to see male doctors anymore, because so many of them have either been patronising, sexist or leery. Whats with that? Old doctors especially.

I just remembered a doddery old specialist I was seeing... he was supposed to be some kind of eastern medicine dude and he did laser accupunture (which always seemed a bit daft to me but how would I know).

I was trying out this accupuncture out of desparation due to ongoing chronic fatigue. One time when I saw him, he started applying the laser to parts of the body he never had before (usually he had a set routine). I asked why, he looked at his chart and said "whoops, wrong patient". Gah. It always felt weird having an old white man doing chinese medicine on me anyway...

urgh! i hate doctors. i had a misery experience. since it was with a gyn i don't really wanna go into it, but she was so offensive, condescending, and insensitive.

the worst are doctors that have some pet hate that they take out on patients. ie 'i'm not going to look into your stomach problem until you stop smoking - that's the root of all your problems' or 'until you lose weight i'm not going to take anything you say seriously' i friend of mine had an awful family doctor with a bad case of the latter. his mom actually died of fenphen complications because the doctor wouldn't listen to her complaints. they're millionaires off of lawsuits - but that doesn't bring your mom back.

OOh yeah. My old family doctor was a vehement anti-vegetarian. I recall asking him as a teen about being one, thinking it might be good to at least understand what I need to do nutritionally, and he went on some huge rant about how it was rubbish, and very bad for you, and a waste of time.

when i was 12 i broke my arm badly, and it got infected, and i went into the hospital for two weeks, and had multiple operations, and they tapped my veins so often my arms went useless and they had to put a catheter into my chest.

now, that's not the bad part.

the bad part was about two months later when all my medicine was done and i was ready to have the catheter taken out, i go to this guys office who put it in (while i was in the hospital, mind, under general anaesthetic), and under the strenuous disagreement of my mother (and myself of course who was scared shitless), he lays me out on his table, numbs the area a bit, and YANKS THE CORD DIRECTLY OUT OF MY HEART, without even putting gloves on. one of the most painful things ever. he then gives me a couple of codeine, props me in a chair, and my parents take me home.

eh..... i gotta go
over to these threads...
Phobias, anyone?
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I've told this before, but I don't want to use the search engine. Anyway, I went to my primary care physician because it seemed like my face seemed to be getting more and more prone to acne. He said it was just stress and offered to give me a prescription for Prozac. Now this outrages me two ways: 1) a few months later I went my dermatologist (without a referral) and he said I had rosacea, something that I've only been able to control through laser surgery and multiple tryouts with about six or seven different medications 2) the doctor was quite willing to prescribe a psychopharmaceutical even though the fucker knew nothing whatsoever about my psychological make-up, and didn't care to ask about it, either.

Docs love to make everything psychological and send you off with some drugs...it pisses me off to no end.

I had to get an EMG done once(I might be mistaken about the name of the test). It checks the muscles for whether they're functioning properly--the test involves needles being stuck into yr arms and legs at various points and electrical charges being applied, over and over and OVER again. It's not a comfortable test. The neurologist who administered it was a dead ringer for Quentin Tarentino, which made it quite the memorable experience.

Another neuro-ish test they did was testing me for concentration, etc. One of the questions that was asked was to list words starting with the letter "f". I laughed, then started a list, omitting the first word that had come to mind. In the doc's notes in my medical record there was something about my laughing spontaneously at inappropriate times, as if I was a fucking loon or something. If I had seemed more serious, I'm sure they would have noted that I was clearly depressed.

I have had many many many doctors who were condescending assholes.

On the lighter side, I once prissily slapped a peditrician on the wrist as he attempted to give me what was in all likelihood a very innocent "cough test."

Threads like this are why I routinely get a second or third opinion. Yes, it costs 2-3 times as much but it's worth it for my peace of mind (and health!).

Im thinking of doing that with my heart, its been really worrying me recently but the last GP strapped me up to some ecg thingy and said nothing was wrong... yet I still get a sore chest when stressed, panicked or I smoke a lot. Hmmm...

I was trying to think if indeed I HAD any bad experiences with doctors, and decided there is one time and one time only that I have. Caution now -- this is feminine stuff.

One time, I went to this big clinic downtown to get a Pap smear, and I had a bad vibe about the whole place. I don't know why I just didn't turn and walk away then; maybe I figured I would've wasted my time traveling downtown or something. But I went ahead and went in, and OH MY GOD, IF YOU EVER HAVE A PREMONITION ABOUT SOMETHING, DO NOT DOUBT IT, DAMN YOU.

I. Had. A. Pap. Smear. Without. Lubricant.

OUUUUUCH! Now, for those of you uninformed, if you've never had sexual contact before, Down There will be by default rather dry and sensitive to uncomfortable things. So, whenever I have to have a Pap smear, I HAVE to have lubricant Down There in order for me to actually make it through the procedure, especially with the usage of the speculum. The fact that I didn't get any, compounded with the fact that I was handled rather roughly, made me scream in agony. Then, when everything was finished, I turned back, ran out, and never went back to that clinic again.

Fucker. Deserves to have his willy die, shrivel into a raisin-like thing, and fall the hell off. Did give me a good reason why I will ONLY EVER TRUST FEMALE OB/GYNs. They at least know what it feels like.

TMITMITMITMITMITMITMITMITMI.

Ouch, boy would that have ever sucked, Dee! :( I hate Paps at the best of times! :(

You shouldn't hate male gynos simply because of that one incident, though. A close friend of mine sees an excellent guy - who actually delivered her when she was born! How weird must that be, I wonder. He might live to deliver her children, too.

That would be freaky, heh.

yeah, female gynos suck too. no doctor regardless of gender seems to be immune from that ridiculous sense of superiority.

I have a really cool male GYN. I was surprised initially--I've gotten to expecting docs of any sort to be assholes by default.

I had to go to my mom's gynecologist once (and he did deliver me). I was going to ask if there was a family resemblance, but I chickened out.

The 'and he did deliver me' bit makes it sound like a passage from the Bible.

Really bad GYN story, scroll down to the bottom of incident #1.

I can't imagine anyone looking at the name of that link and thinking, "Yay!"

I've been lucky to always have good gynecologists.

My worst experience was with a doctor who prescribed barbiturates for headaches that eventually turned out to be caused by a chronic sinus infection. Once while I was on this medication I tried to walk through a desk. I didn't even think doctors prescribed barbiturates any more -- haven't they all been replaced by drugs that are safer, and more effective, and still under patent?

during surgery to correct a deviated nasal septum, the guy shot me up and told me to count to ten and i would be numb...well i reached ten and i could feel him scraping cartilidge out of my nostril...fucker, that and getting pubes shaved without express permission for a hernia....pervs

i can't help but wonder how many uninsured americans would like to contribute to this thread. So many people I know, the majority of people I know including myself the majority of my adult life, do not have the option of having a bad dr experience ever.

That said my only bad DR experience came during the most socialist period of my life, when I was a student at UT. Full-time students had unlimited clinic/physican access and I was going b/c I was having an extremely hard time breathing. I saw about 5 different drs. at the clinic and they were all trying to treat me for alleriges. Claritin helped a bit but I still felt as if I had a large person sitting on my chest. None of them could fix it. One elderly physcian told me the problem was I was allergic to my cats (true) and that I should just kill them. He said this completely seriously with a straight face. I left immediately and requested a new appt. with a different physican.

I got a visit with a young, asian female who took one look at me and said "you've got adult on-set asthma". She hooked me up to a respriator thing, prescribed some steriods and inhalers and fixed in 2 hours what older, male collegues couldn't get right for nearly a whole, awful semester.

Best. Doctor. Ever.

I am not sure if this is the right place to put this but I am just so frustrated with my medical care. If you have back problems,stay away from Dr. Patel in Virginia. He claims to be a PROFESSOR at Yale and all this other bullshit, but when it comes right down to it, he is making it up. This guy did my surgery and when I did not get any better, he basically threw me out. I think he was a shitty surgeon and an even shittier human being. When I had questions, all he did was talk. Dont they teach doctors how to listen?

I went to see my doctor today and there were only those hard peppermint candies in the candy dish, not the DARK CHOCOLATE I'd been looking forward to. Why bother going? I mean, chocotherapy is a very important medical modality.

I am just coming back from a dermatologist Dr Micheal Greenberg in Elkgrove Village .i had to wait for an hour ,still I did not get my turn and I realized that there were five more people ahead of me .
So I started expressing my dissatisfaction against the over booking with the other patients . I think the staff heard me and took me inside . The doctor comes and started burning my wart with out local anesthesia . I did not realize that he wants to harass me for complaining against an hour of waiting .When I resisted that he says come back later for a surgical appointment . He never asked for a surgical appointment for burning a wart. It was obvious that he wanted to harass me for complaining .

If you guys have a choice stay away from him . I felt he is an arrogant and egoistic doctor who thinks too much of himself.

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