Wow, that's total bullshite! I've never heard of an office doing that before.

WTF??? That's insane!

Most of these seem to be about the doctor's OFFICE messing things up.

Amazing how often ovarian cancer is dismissed as "something" else.

VA has some of the worst doctors ever I'm sure there are some good ones, but I've never seen any. I swear they hire the drs no one else will.

Oh hell no! No chance I'd have agreed to that.

I am sorry for your loss

I've left before when I doctor did that to me. I understand that it's not always their fault, but my time is important too. Plus it's ridiculous that they'll make you wait an hour to see the doctor but cancel your appointment if you're 15 minutes late!

Steal all of the cotton swabs!

I wonder why insurance didn't cover more of that? I've never had a single bill that expensive in my life. And unfortunately I'm at the doctor/hospital quite a bit. Maybe I'm just lucky to have always had very good insurance? I know they're not all the same. And yes, I agree that the US is ridiculous when it comes to health care. We shouldn't have to pay for anything.

They need to get more customers

I thought this was someone testing if their pen worked! Or trying to cross something out. LOL!

If you have to wait more than an hour you're entitled to pull them off the wall and place them together. (Also: I feel like there should be another one between the second and third ones.)

Especially irritating when they rush the appointment after that. Sometimes it takes longer than ten minutes to discuss my medical issues

Reception may be at lunch, but that doesn't mean nursing staff and doctors necessarily are. The patient could still be called at 1:30.

That is so 2023.

I support the doctor here. Unfortunately it's become more common for people to fall for the placebo effect, and then take supplements and the like instead of getting vaccinated. Maybe it hurt the patient in the short term, but it stopped a dangerous spread of misinformation that could've killed not only the patient but any friends and family the patient convinced.

Do it

Dammit, Jim! I'm a dentist, not an English teacher!

This glitch is quite common when a pdf to Google Docs conversion is attempted.

Well the doctor obviously didn't do that!

In which case you talk to the insurance rep and find out what they WILL cover, and then the doc writes you a script for that. Sometimes the doctor's office will even take care of that for you. It's not ideal, but doctors are used to having to do it. Why some insurance companies only cover certain meds and not others is beyond me. Kickbacks probably.

Well at least they didn't write PEEPEE POOPOO. :)

Well that's just mean!

Why can't they allow phone appointments and e.scripts? I can do that with my mom's doctor all the time.

Hey, it IS full of medicine at least! ;)

No need to type the sounds you're making, Doc.

Did the patient then "remind" the doctor, with the best intentions of course?

A text message is non-verbal communication, so technically it’s true. They didn’t ’hear’ from you. (Still seems nit picky.)

Again I wonder about the insurance. Maybe these people have high deductible plans? That's really a lot for one visit. For reference I was in the ICU for several days last year and only paid a few hundred dollars for the ER admission fee. My insurance covered everything else.

🤢

What was the carpenter thinking when he built that? What was anybody thinking? WAS anybody thinking?

HIPPA violation?

Go to the front desk and COMPLAIN. I can't believe the amount of people who will tolerate this nonsense. Or, maybe I'm just cranky. I don't know. But, I'd never tolerate it.

I'm sure some of those personal messages would make very interesting reading.

Work nice hard to and be people

Well, that's just awful!

🤦🏻‍♀️ Sheesh. 🙄

After college I moved to a town of about 18,000. I was so excited to have health insurance so I could get a general physician and a gyno. I called the first doctor in the phone book (this was in 2000ish) and they said not accepting new patients. Ok, I call the next #, turns out it is the same office. All 3 doctors listed in town, no new patients. I had to drive to a nearby city and find the planned parenthood to at least get basic gyno help.

Pharma lobbying needs to stop. Including all the incentives/bribes they give to MD practices.

I-have questions

Once nude, many people cannot resist the siren song telling them to run screaming through the crowded doctors office.

Burn it down! /j

Canada? :) That's definitely not happening in the US!

Hopefully not the U. S. do you know what insurance is going to charge for those bandages!

From OP on Reddit: "I broke my hand roller skating 4 days ago and they said to talk to an orthopedic surgeon to find out if I need surgery or not, since I broke the scaphoid bone and if it’s displaced or doesn’t heal enough in a certain time frame, will need surgery. The 4 walk in clinics we went to either didn’t take Medicaid, didn’t take united healthcare, or only did what the ER already did. Called my Doctor and she put in an urgent request to children’s mercy and an AUTOMATED ROBOT said they give us a call back in 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS. They said I needed to be in a cast by day 10. It’s day 5. A call back in 3-5 business days PLUS the time needed to schedule an appointment. I hate American healthcare"

Better than the example I just looked this has some semblance of a pattern.

This has nothing to do with a doctor. That's just an internet troll.

So? Aside from some sloppy labeling, this is secure. Provided you still have something with a CD player ;)

This is infuriating to people who… hate families?