Bad experiences at the Doctors

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Anybody ever witnessed or had a bad experience at the Doctors?
Well there are two reasons I ask. the first one is as follows whilst the second might follow later:

I was once waiting to see the GP over a minor/trivial thing. I was second to last in the que but the woman due to be seen after me was crying and seemed to be in a considerable amount of pain. Being both concerned along with polite I assumed that this woman needed to be seen before me and suggested as such to the staff and the GP concerned. The GP responded by telling me my appointment was before her and would be seen before her which I thought was callous.
 
I went to the doctors with crabs once, that was pretty bad as well, considering I was a virgin as well at the time.

So all the bad part with none of the fun.
 
The Doctor and his staff have an agenda that they need to stick to or it causes more work and delays. If they spend all their time rescheduling and shuffling paperwork, they'll never get to fit everyone in.

Besides that slight problem could well turn out to be a brain tumor or cancer, who's the priority now? The woman crying over what turns out to be a bruise?
 
Fact is she was going to be seen whether it was right then or in 20 minutes. So I would have just gone first.
 
Doctors see a lot of people who try it on and probably took this woman with a pinch of salt, she could have been attempting to scam for drugs.

Whilst defending them I have to say my own GP as been useless on occasion.
 
I have been to the doctors about 3 times in my life. Every single time they have told me to just rest and get over it.
I don't bother anymore, easier to just get proper ill and go to the hospital (havent done that yet though).

I have a strong dislike for doctors, as all that i have visited, seem to have a strong contempt for me wasting their precious time, which is probably what they though about the women.
I suppose I would be the same though after 25yrs or something of people coming into my surgery with a cold. Doctors surgeries would be better if people were more aware of themselves or there was such a thing as quick walk in diagnosis centres, before having an appointment.
 
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ChroniC said:
I have been to the doctors about 3 times in my life. Every single time they have told me to just rest and get over it.
I don't bother anymore, easier to just get proper ill and go to the hospital (havent done that yet though).

I have a strong dislike for doctors, as all that i have visited, seem to have a strong contempt for me wasting their precious time.
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hehe-the irony of a sig/username Chronic ;)
 
I used to have a really bad stomach pain that I went to the doctors to get help with. Was at a point where anything but laying down was unbearable. After feeling my stomach in 3 places he told me there was nothing he could do to help it but if I wanted he could prescribe me some strong painkillers and that I should just learn to live with it.

Paid £150 to go private, got actually listened to, had scans and all and was booked in for surgery (with the NHS) not too long after. All good now :)

I don't usually go to the doctors for anything at all, which is the reason why I didn't go to A&E with my pains as I see it only as "urgent" emergencies. Did have a worry the other week but figured I would be fobbed off anyway so why go :p
 
Went to the Doctors at the beginning of last year as I had a pain in my side. The Doctor I saw was like...

"Well, it's been nearly a week, so it's probably not your appendix, probably just a case of irritable bowel syndrome, if it gets any worse, then come back".

The pain remained another week, so I booked another appointment, but with a different Doctor at the same surgery. She examined me and straight away said "It's your appendix, I'm sorry to give you the bad news, but I'm going to have to find you a hospital bed right now".

I'll never go and see that Doctor who missed it ever again.
 
Not really had any bad experiences but when I walked in to see a doctor who had a table full of books which she was leafing through trying to find what I might have wrong with me, I was like :eek:

She was recently qualified though, and I guess you can't know everthing!
 
Hmm... where to start? :p

I had severe pain in my back and felt bloated and sick (and I mean 'omg I'm dying' not 'I'm a little nauseous') ever since I can remember. I was constantly peeing, and it was always dark. Often (every few weeks) it burnt like hell too.

My GPs at the time had me literally living on amoxycillin and the like; I literally took it almost every week for ten years while I was growing up. "Just a water infection" they always said to my parents. Eventually it got so bad I was shivering uncontrollably with no fever, vomiting copiously and screaming in pain. My parents called the doctor out who diagnosed a "pulled muscle with a dose of hypochondria" and referred me to a psychiatrist for all my pill seeking attention whoring over the years.

The psych confirmed I was mentally well, aside from having just lost a grandparent (bearing in mind I'd been ill for years before then), and he discharged me.

The GP continued to prescribe ongoing antibiotics, refusing to refer me for scans or tests. My parents complained to the head of the practice, who eventually snapped at me "Look, you can't keep running for a pill bottle every time you have a little niggle. Stop being a hypochondriac, go out and live your life and stop bothering me".

I changed GPs a few weeks later, whereupon they rushed me to hospital. Scans showed I had extreme bilateral hydronephrosis, my left kidney was so grossly distended and swollen it had become transparent. The top of it was wedged against my thoracic cavity, pushing into my heart and lungs, and the bottom of it was wedged inside my pelvis bone. That's one hella big kidney.

My right kidney was scarred beyond recognition from the years of infection and of having taken the burden of two kidneys, and my surgeon said I'd have had a week or two to live if they'd not spotted it there and then.

The resulting surgeries were so bad I am one of the few people I know who can genuinely laugh at a woman bemoaning men's pain and childbirth. The morphine didn't touch the sides for a week, and it took me months to learn to walk again they had to cut through so much to get the damaged organ out.

Even 14 years later I have a 14" long, 1/2" wide scar, a missing rib, and ongoing health issues.

Do I win an internets for having a crap doctor?
 
On a more serious note to crabs, I had both my lungs collapse forcing air into my chest cavity (pneumothorax) which for 3 days was diagnosed as bronchitis, when they eventually realised what it was I was rushed to hospital with air next to my heart, the doctor there told me he suspected I may have ruptured my oesophagus and was concerned that if I had eaten anything since it had happened. I explained to him it had happened days ago whereby he told me I would probably die if food or liquid had got into my chest cavity lol.
 
arknor said:
i went to my doctor about something and he was clearly on google looking up my symptoms :rolleyes:
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when my doc is away and i get the other guy.....i honestly wish he would use google, he is so far off the mark you would think he sold tangerines and has just been promoted to doctor out the blue.
 
Rainmaker said:
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I would've went to the old doctor and ran him over or sue or something... Well I'd think about it at least. :p

Most of my doctors have been great except the ones that really can't be bothered. My current one is brilliant and I see him every month.
 
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