I love doctors.
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My friend's pregnant. Went to the doctor I went to to figure out why my body wasn't cooperating after AJ was born, and he decided bloodwork was the best answer. He gave my friend the due dates of October 2nd and 16th. She decided to get a second opinion today from my OB. He gave her the due date of November 21st. She's only 36 weeks and 6 days along. The original doctor wanted to induce her TODAY and deliver her poor son almost a month early. There are no health problems in either of them, so it would've caused more trouble than it's worth. Oh god, I'm glad she got a second opinion.
My favorite experience with a doctor was second hand, and took place when I was around 13 years old. I woke up one morning to discover my grandmother preparing breakfast with the entire left half of her face sagging. After about an hour of fighting (She was extremely stubborn and hated hospitals.) me and my grandfather managed to get her in the car and on the was to Kaiser. I expected her to be admitted right there and then, but nope, the doctor proclaimed it as nothing more than a simple ear infection and sent her home.
Just...what. Even as a kid, I could tell she'd had a stroke. We were eventually forced to call an ambulance and have them diagnose her before Kaiser would give her the proper care she needed. Not to mention they're infamous for pulling similar tricks on countless other patients. I don't want to bitch about them that much, since I get free medical with them via my mom until I hit 26, but Jesus fucking Christ. For the love of all that is holy, put people before your profit margins.
(Edited for numerous typos. Shitty keyboard is shitty.)
haha oh man, everyone in my family has at least one ridiculous Kaiser story. I recently went in to see about getting a stronger painkiller because my current prescription wasn't doing anything. The doctor's advice was to go to walmart and buy a bottle of Aleve. Cheap bastards B|
Yep, that sounds about right. I also completely forgot to mention the fact that it took them about five or six years to discover I had cataracts, despite numerous visits over the steadily worsening lens flare effect taking over my vision, and 90% of that time was spent insisting that nothing was wrong with my eyes at all. Now they're saying they can't preform surgery to remove them until I'm, conveniently enough, 26. But apparently I'm eligible for (Uncovered, completely out of my own pocket.) Lasik! Great news, hu?
Did you get the "it's all in your head, you're faking it, take some antidepressants" bullshit? e_e I guess there's a reason why they're the cheapest provider around here.
Yes to the first two, no to the last since they'd already started cramming Aderall down my throat for a diagnosis of ADHA that was never confirmed by a specialist. It's strange that they're so stingy with every other type of medication, but willing to hand out that crap like candy.
- Something similar happed to my sister but because she is Queen of the Martyrs she went ahead and LET THEM perform the C section when she was only 37 weeks. Yes her son does have problems, no they won't admit to any wrongdoing, yes she's fucking stupid sometimes. Thank God your friend isn't as dumb as my sister..:/
- As someone who has had cataracts (as a baby, congenital) you can in fact get them operated on as an adult. They are being greedy cunts and denying you an actual needed operation to save your sight. If you don't have them removed, it will damage your vision more and become worse the longer it takes. Oh, right, insurance twats. I forget. What useless pieces of shit. Enjoy blindness !
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I've gotten the "it's all in your head" bullshit before. Saint Catherine, recently shut down because it failed a health inspection. Outdated medical equipment, MISSING medical equipment, unsanitary, etc. I went for a fall, came home with pink eye. But yeah, severe, crippling, pains in my side were all in my head.
I recommended the doctor that gave her the new due date. He's amazing. Been in his profession for 40+ years. Definitely knows what he's doing. The first doctor is terrible, has multiple complaints.
My family has run into its fair share of creeps for doctors. My mother has suffered since she was a little girl with her body, a lifetime of pain and suffering and all through her life her responses were: custom shoes, growing pains, it's not possible, it's all in your head, you're just fine the x-rays show nothing, your underwear is too tight, try and get more sleep, and it goes on and on. Finally, when she had been convinced that maybe it WAS 'just her', and didn't trust any doctor, she had to go to the ER for a major spider bite in this new town we were in. She ended up getting into a doctor's office for some aftercare and all he had to do was watch her walk to see something was very, very wrong there. One x-ray showed years of deterioration that was so bad she was grinding bone against bone in her hips, and that was just that PART of her body.
How could no other doctors see her suffering and see there was an issue? He just looked at her, and knew right away. And it wasn't like it just occurred. She had been suffering for so long. He certainly changed her life, and my life too when I went to see him. Best doctor I ever met, and in a tiny 7k population town. Top surgeons there too. You'd never think it.
my boyfriend's mom and dad went to a doctor before she was pregnant with him... and the dr assured his parents that there was no chance in passing type 1 diabetes to any of his children because his dad didn't get it until he was 21~ish. well, 11 years later and my boyfriend got the diabetes bug! apparently, genetics was archaic in the 1980's.
The local hospital in my city has a wretched reputation. Yeah, that horrible moment when my dad had to go to the ER because he had trouble breathing and they didn't have the slightest clue about the illness he went through (Guillain-Barre syndrome). Or that time when my mom had a pancreas issue and admitted to her DAYS after spending time laying in a hospital room in pain not being able to eat that they didn't know anything and that they were transferring her to another hospital to see a specialist.
