Posted by utopizen on November 15, 2002, at 11:19:13
In reply to Re: My GP is sketchy, posted by dreamerz on November 15, 2002, at 9:12:51
> >. I would feel distrustful about a doctor who started to check private parts of you without even asking.
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> Hmmm naughty naughty.....why do I get the shy ones : )
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> Sorry to mess with the post I know it's a serious issue but couldn't resist.I have a pretty good sense of humor, only I'm a guy and so is my doc. I've decided to just wait a few days to see how the results of my blood test go, call him up to see what he thinks of the blood tests, take that info down and say have a nice day. Then go to a female doc and never test fate again by using a male doc.
And if a good-looking female doc wants to be assertive during my physical, I'll assume there's some reasonable explanation for it and let her do her thing ; )
oh, and did I mention this guy graduated in 1945 and has had 2 malpractice payments he's made in the past 10 years? Because it's still freaking me out, both of those things. This guy pre-dates every psychotropic ever made. No wonder why he said "what can we do to get you off these meds?" I wanted to say "sorry, but I don't recgonize Dianetics, doctor." lol
Well, he doesn't pre-date Benzedrine, but that ADD trial wasn't actually paid attention to when it was published in '38 anyway...
I've also decided to write a letter to my state med board "reccomending that the Board remind the doctor of ethical procedures in the course of examining a patient" as I will say. I also encourage all of you to go to your state board of health's web site and search all your doctors... not that a malpractice payment alone is a reason to stop seeing someone. Actually, if that was the only thing I had a problem with, I'd still keep him... I have a pretty high threshold people have to cross before I get upset with them and do something about it. Telling me "I don't care about your social problems, only your physical ones" AFTER he tried to pull down my underwear without asking was the final straw. No doctor should dismiss legitimate mental illnesses of a patient, ESPECIALLY when that doctor has absolutely no experience or background in psychiatry and my p-doc went to Harvard med and this guy went to some med school I never heard of 57 years ago. And my p-doc also doesn't have any malpractice payments he's made. So really, this guy has no authority to be snotty about psychiatry.
Not to mention he said he needed to check for hemroids or else he would be liable. What? I told him my doctor never did, and my doctor gave me a physical in August. I made it very clear that I knew this wasn't standard procedure to do on a 19 year old patient when I told him my former doctor went to Stanford med, because I knew he was about to quack out a line about how he's more competent than my former doctor.
Had I known of his malpractice payouts beforehand, I would have told him "well my doc didn't have any malpractice problems, and you do, so he must be doing something right." I mean, it's not like I'm planning to see him again, or he's my professor or something. I say he opens the door to ad homminems (s/p) when he tries to pull down my shorts. Heck, what I should probably do is just tell him to prescribe me some Xanax unless he wants to explain why he tried to pull down the shorts of a fully functioning 19 year old without even asking first. Not to mention I can pretty much guarantee hemroids is not considered a legitimate test to perform on a 19 year old, so he certainly couldn't use even THAT pathetic excuse he tried using on me.
He knew I knew a lot about meds when he started asking me about them, certainly more than he knew of them. I'm constantly amazed at how much ignorance doctors assume of their patients AFTER their patients have clearly demonstrated they know more than they do in certain areas... it's unfortunate that I also know that my p-doc did lie to me one time due to my insight over these matters, but I never have the guts to point out that I'm no dummy (well, actually, I'm sort of proud of myself for doing it yesterday, ussually I don't).
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