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!

This patient presented complaining of a dry cough, apparently.

Oh, Cyrillic cursive! It's always like this.

Yeah, it's particularly bad, and I say that as a Russian speaker who is used to doctor handwriting

When you make the electroencephalogram to write the recipe.

I think it's an assignment to Fort Sedgwick. (Yes my pop culture references are very up to date.)

Wow... I studied old handwritten notes and books, so I would be probably able to rewrite this into a more readable form... I also can mostly read this alphabet "azbuka" aloud... But my knowledge of Ukrainian, Russian and similar languages is somewhere between limited and non-existent...

Cyrillic cursive. No, I don't understand how they can read it either.

TBF, it's also in Russian I think.

It's in Cyrillic or something very similar.

WTF?? It is TOTALLY illegible!!?? Is this a joke?? I know it's not though.....

I've read doctor scratch. Lots of it. This is either an artistic calligraphy style of it, or a heinous joke. Hell. Why not both...

This looks like when my 2yo used to pretend she could write

belive or not this is just RUSSIAN CURSIVE writing

Yep this doc went to the medical handwriting class and passed with flying colors.

Looks like a bunch of scribbling to me.

Must be another stable genius.

I thought it was an EKG or a POLYGRAPH test !!

It's also written in Greek. This is possibly where the phrase "it's all greek to me" originated.

I'm going to say "no" on this one. Even taking into account that it's Russian (?), I don't see enough difference in the characters for it to be actual words, so I'm having a difficult time believing this one.

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.

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