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.

Nothing wrong with placebo effect if it's affordable and not being used in lieu of a clinically effective treatment plan.

And many doctors have a God complex, that says if *they weren't responsible for it, it can't possibly be working. If it works, it's not stupid!

That's valuable information, and the whole point of a placebo is that the person doesn't know it's a placebo.

Aside from my post on the reality and power of placebo effect, there's another consideration that I'd like you all to remember, and that's that no matter how convincing we sound, us health care providers do not in fact know everything about everything, sometimes we say and believe things that aren't accurate, and sometimes we lie. Your doctor is as human as your tax accountant and your lawyer. And even though you should rely heavily on their advice, I caution you to always, always become as informed as you can about your situation and never be afraid to seek a second or third opinion if something doesn't feel right. Also, I strongly recommend that you always have an advocate with you for any appointment that you can get one too. I've personally prevented severe hypoxia when they gave my husband a hefty dose of morphine then left him completely unattended in an ED. I put my foot down when his liver enzymes were elevated for a year and was being told it was his weight (it wasn't).

I would keep on taking that supplement, if it made me feel better. Doctors do not know all, so if it was not harmfull take it.

No. i don't agree with the doctor. Nobody gets hurt if he spreads a bit of hope. She was happy.

"The medicine you gave me wasn't real???? Just a heads up, doc. When I get your bill, my payment ain't gonna be real either."

Especially if it wasn't harmful to take it...

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MDs don't know everything. She shouldn't have said that to you. Supplements helped me tremendously when I was sick in my 20s. In fact, the only doctors that ACTUALLY helped me were doctors who had trained in naturopathic/asian/holistic medicine.

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She just doesn’t like supplements because her buddies in Big Pharma aren’t getting a piece of that pie.

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.

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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.