Re: Gastro doc visit

Zhills · ‎11-15-2011

@LilacTree I know how you feel about distrusting.

However, I have 2 Doctors in the family and they have both told me, "I'm glad you're not my patient. We treat you with the treatments we were taught and they work with the majority of people, BUT they don't work with you! You are a frustrating patient!"

I believe the "not caring" we pick up on is that they are trying to figure out an alternative treatment that will work. My 2 meds sent me back to the hospital with a (swollen colon) blockage! The Doctors had used the 'normal' treatment! I paid for the results. I can imagine their frustration also! (((Hug)))

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

@Zhills wrote:
@LilacTree I know how you feel about distrusting.

However, I have 2 Doctors in the family and they have both told me, "I'm glad you're not my patient. We treat you with the treatments we were taught and they work with the majority of people, BUT they don't work with you! You are a frustrating patient!"

I believe the "not caring" we pick up on is that they are trying to figure out an alternative treatment that will work. My 2 meds sent me back to the hospital with a (swollen colon) blockage! The Doctors had used the 'normal' treatment! I paid for the results. I can imagine their frustration also! (((Hug)))

@Zhills

Interesting, Zhills. I wish I could talk to a doc in a non-medical environment with an opportunity to discuss the frustrations on both sides.

I (and you and others) get so frustrated because I have pain, gross fatigue, etc. every single day. I get sick and tired of it. From the other side, I can see a doctor getting just as frustrated with a patient for whom he feels he can't do anything right. They must cringe when they see this patient on their schedule.

So I haven't called the doc about my reaction to the med . . . by the same token, I have not heard from him as to whether or not he has talked to the insurance company about the cost of the med which I was told was recommended to him by the pharmacy.

He's been my gastro doc for thirty+ years, we are fond of each other . . . but we are both walking on eggs.

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986

Zhills · ‎11-15-2011

Call his office. They get very busy sometimes.

My daughter is working 8-10 hours days. She has to dictate all her notes after seeing 20 patients a day. There is not enough time to do it during office hours. Good luck.

When I was released from the hospital the Doc was going to send me home with Cipro (the normal treatment) and I told him I couldn't take it. He said, "What do you want me to do?" and he was the head hospital doctor! They finally sent me to an infectous disease doctor for an antibiotic. They are up on all the latest and strongest on the market. The one he suggested did work. The IV antibiotic for 2 weeks.