You are NOT God, you're just a doctor.
Good morning,
This post is a rant about doctors and the lack of care some of them give. For me, it's my own family doctor that has been blowing me off, not listening to me and not helping me then, treating me like I'm an idiot, treating me poorly and neglecting my medical needs. Read on to see what I'm talking about.
Being a doctor is not something that places you higher up on the totem than others and doesn't give you the right to treat patients poorly. It doesn't give you the right to have a God complex, acting like you're better than the people who come to you for help. You're just a doctor, it's a title for the job you hold. You're still human like the rest of us. You still make mistakes like the rest of us.
You may know more in your field of work that you do than us, the patients but, you don't know more than we do in all of our fields of work. Therefore, you're NOT God, so stop acting like it.
If you were God or a God, you wouldn't pass judgements on your patients like you do and you wouldn't leave them suffering, in pain and neglect their needs because you "don't feel comfortable" helping them in a certain way.
I've had back pain for many years now. Sometimes this pain is tolerable, other times it's not. Sometimes the pain is just in my lower back and other times, it's in my lower back, in my hips and down my right leg all the way to my ankle. Sometimes it makes it painful to sit, stand, walk and even lay down. There have been nights where it's so painful I wake up moaning from the pain. Or when I am walking, it sends a jolt of pain into my lower back or hip and literally stops me in my tracks.
I've been complaining to my pharmacist and doctor about this pain for WELL OVER a YEAR now! The doctor has given me many different types of pain medications, trying to "fix" this pain issue. He's never done any exams, tests or followed up with WHY I have this severe back pain. He simply throws medications at me and sends me on my way. You can't fix a problem without trying to find a solution first. He's neglecting my medical needs and blowing me off; like my pain doesn't actually exist or isn't as bad as I tell him it is.
My doctor has had me climb the ladder in pain medications from very low to higher up and then back low. He makes no sense. You can't give someone a strong pain medication that starts to work then decide you're "not comfortable" giving them that medication because you have an issue with it even though it was starting to work for the pain, make the pain tolerable and lets me function in my daily life.
Yes, there is an opioid problem in the world and yes, some people do abuse their medications but NOT everyone is the same and for a doctor to pass judgement on someone is unacceptable. I'm someone who doesn't drink alcohol, who doesn't smoke weed, doesn't pop pills, doesn't party, doesn't do ANY drugs for recreation. I take the 500 different medications (not literally 500, but I take a LOT) that my doctor has given me and some medications like Aleve and I go on with my life. So, when my doctor tells me he won't give me ANYTHING for the pain that works, it's upsetting. He literally treated me like I was simply trying to get medication because I wanted it for recreation; which is NOT what's going on.
I had a friend come in to see my doctor with me to try and vouch for me and explain my pain, how it's affecting my daily living in a negative way and he STILL blew me off and blew her off too!!
It's disgusting how some doctors will treat their patients. We have rights and one of them is to be treated with respect, kindness and have our medical needs taken seriously and cared for. You shouldn't leave your doctor's office or hospital feeling like an idiot like you're not listened to or cared about and like you're something you're not. I had someone tell me to get a lawyer and sue my doctor for how he's been mistreating me and to fire him as my family doctor.
I was in the hospital 2 days in a row just this week in my town for my pain. I saw one on-call doctor, she was awesome. She took my pain seriously, she listened to me carefully and helped me with the pain. She gave me some advice and medication. I was happy about leaving her. She also told me to see my family doctor the following day so I tried to. I called his office and left messages, the secretaries there did NOT do their jobs. They didn't listen to the messages, didn't call me back because they didn't listen to the messages. I had to have my pharmacist call them to find out where my doctor was and what the fuck was going on. I was told he was on-call at the hospital, find him there. So, that's what I did. THREE HOURS of WAITING for him to show up just to tell me he wouldn't help me because of his PERSONAL comfort level.
You're a doctor, you're not supposed to let your "personal" views get in the way of you doing your job. Your job is to literally help people when they are sick and or injured. That's what a doctor does. Just like a waitress takes your orders and brings you things and a writer writes. It's a job, it's what you do for a living. A doctor can't call himself a doctor if he's not doing his job just like a writer can't be called a writer if they don't write! DUH!!
I was so upset, still in pain and discouraged when I left the hospital. I felt like I wasn't taken seriously and wasn't listened to.
I KNOW for a fact my doctor doesn't listen to me, he hardly remembers things I tell him or he tells me. I told him that I wouldn't go to Calgary for anything because it's over an hour away and I do NOT drive. He said he understood that. Then the next time I saw him he tried to send me to Calgary, over an hour away!! WTF?!?! OPEN YOUR FUCKING EARS!!!
If I acted like that in my field of work, I'd have NO JOB!!
I was still in a lot of pain yesterday, after being at the hospital twice, being blown off and treated poorly. I went to another town to get a second opinion.
The nurses greeted me with kindness, listened to my concerns and even gave me a hot blanket to put on my back, as I was sitting on the cot hunched forward. The doctor listened to my concerns, did some tests and gave me advice. He gave me an injection for the pain and booked me an appointment for this morning at 8:10 am to get injections in my spine to deal with the pain. He told me to come back and see him in a few days. I was HAPPY leaving this doctor and felt relieved that he was listening and HELPING me!
The nurses told me that their clinic is taking on new patients and suggested I go there from herein. Before I went home I stopped in the clinic to book a meet and greet with a doctor. I was able to book it for next week. That made me even happier.
After my meet and greet with the new doctor next week, I will be FIRING my family doctor. I can't go see someone that doesn't take me seriously, doesn't listen to me and doesn't help me with my medical needs. I will not tolerate being neglected. I will be switching myself and my kids to the new doctor.
I was told to file a complaint against my family doctor and as I said above, get a lawyer. I don't know if I will do that, as of yet but, I'll keep that on the back burner.
This isn't the first time I've had an issue with my doctor. He's also given me medications that the pharmacist found were not needed. The pharmacist wasn't sure why I was given the medications I had been given. He took me off some of them, replaced them with other medications that did suit my medical needs. I mean, it's pretty pathetic when my pharmacist is unsure why I was taking medications given to me by my family doctor. It's even worse when that same pharmacist has to speak to my doctor on my behalf to give me different medications because the ones I had were not correct.
It's even worse when I have to tell my doctor that the pharmacist and nurse I work with left him NOTES in my file!! He didn't even look! He was unaware that my medications needed to be changed and unaware that there were notes from other medical professionals left for him.
He was also supposed to fill out paperwork for A.I.S.H. so I could get on disability due to my illness and back. I sent in my papers but found out he didn't send in his so I had to refill out my papers, give them to him and ask him to get them sent in. I'm not even sure if he's done that as of yet. He has to have them into A.I.S.H BEFORE March 3rd. I'll be calling today to find out if they've been sent in yet. If not, I'm requesting that he has them filled out TODAY and I will mail them in myself. Like come on, how HARD is it to literally DO YOUR JOB!?! He's PAID to fill out the forms. He gets $50 to sit on his ass, put pen to paper and have his secretary mail it off for him.
I wish MY job was so easy! *Shake my head.*
I woke up today with my back still very sore. I'm glad to be going to get these injections. I really hope they help as this pain is taking away from my daily life. It takes away from my happiness and health. I can't do things with my kids because of the pain. I can't even grocery shop without leaning on the grocery cart for support.
The doctor I saw yesterday took a look at my Xrays and told me that I have arthritis on two spots on my spine, two different kinds of nerve damage and narrowing of my lower spine. That's why I am in pain. When I bend, twist and sit, the narrowing of my spine makes the bones rub together causing friction and pain.
If my "FAMILY DOCTOR" had bothered to DO HIS JOB, he would have seen this and been able to help me. I might have to get SURGERY on my back!! This other doctor is sending me for an MRI in about a week or so.
I refuse to go back to the joke of a family doctor I had. I refuse to be treated poorly, unkindly, disrespected and neglected. I won't tolerate it for a second. If YOU are treated poorly as well, NEVER settle, get a second and or third opinion. Doctors are NOT Gods, they're humans too with a degree, nothing more.
This post is a rant about doctors and the lack of care some of them give. For me, it's my own family doctor that has been blowing me off, not listening to me and not helping me then, treating me like I'm an idiot, treating me poorly and neglecting my medical needs. Read on to see what I'm talking about.
Being a doctor is not something that places you higher up on the totem than others and doesn't give you the right to treat patients poorly. It doesn't give you the right to have a God complex, acting like you're better than the people who come to you for help. You're just a doctor, it's a title for the job you hold. You're still human like the rest of us. You still make mistakes like the rest of us.
You may know more in your field of work that you do than us, the patients but, you don't know more than we do in all of our fields of work. Therefore, you're NOT God, so stop acting like it.
If you were God or a God, you wouldn't pass judgements on your patients like you do and you wouldn't leave them suffering, in pain and neglect their needs because you "don't feel comfortable" helping them in a certain way.
I've had back pain for many years now. Sometimes this pain is tolerable, other times it's not. Sometimes the pain is just in my lower back and other times, it's in my lower back, in my hips and down my right leg all the way to my ankle. Sometimes it makes it painful to sit, stand, walk and even lay down. There have been nights where it's so painful I wake up moaning from the pain. Or when I am walking, it sends a jolt of pain into my lower back or hip and literally stops me in my tracks.
I've been complaining to my pharmacist and doctor about this pain for WELL OVER a YEAR now! The doctor has given me many different types of pain medications, trying to "fix" this pain issue. He's never done any exams, tests or followed up with WHY I have this severe back pain. He simply throws medications at me and sends me on my way. You can't fix a problem without trying to find a solution first. He's neglecting my medical needs and blowing me off; like my pain doesn't actually exist or isn't as bad as I tell him it is.
My doctor has had me climb the ladder in pain medications from very low to higher up and then back low. He makes no sense. You can't give someone a strong pain medication that starts to work then decide you're "not comfortable" giving them that medication because you have an issue with it even though it was starting to work for the pain, make the pain tolerable and lets me function in my daily life.
Yes, there is an opioid problem in the world and yes, some people do abuse their medications but NOT everyone is the same and for a doctor to pass judgement on someone is unacceptable. I'm someone who doesn't drink alcohol, who doesn't smoke weed, doesn't pop pills, doesn't party, doesn't do ANY drugs for recreation. I take the 500 different medications (not literally 500, but I take a LOT) that my doctor has given me and some medications like Aleve and I go on with my life. So, when my doctor tells me he won't give me ANYTHING for the pain that works, it's upsetting. He literally treated me like I was simply trying to get medication because I wanted it for recreation; which is NOT what's going on.
I had a friend come in to see my doctor with me to try and vouch for me and explain my pain, how it's affecting my daily living in a negative way and he STILL blew me off and blew her off too!!
It's disgusting how some doctors will treat their patients. We have rights and one of them is to be treated with respect, kindness and have our medical needs taken seriously and cared for. You shouldn't leave your doctor's office or hospital feeling like an idiot like you're not listened to or cared about and like you're something you're not. I had someone tell me to get a lawyer and sue my doctor for how he's been mistreating me and to fire him as my family doctor.
I was in the hospital 2 days in a row just this week in my town for my pain. I saw one on-call doctor, she was awesome. She took my pain seriously, she listened to me carefully and helped me with the pain. She gave me some advice and medication. I was happy about leaving her. She also told me to see my family doctor the following day so I tried to. I called his office and left messages, the secretaries there did NOT do their jobs. They didn't listen to the messages, didn't call me back because they didn't listen to the messages. I had to have my pharmacist call them to find out where my doctor was and what the fuck was going on. I was told he was on-call at the hospital, find him there. So, that's what I did. THREE HOURS of WAITING for him to show up just to tell me he wouldn't help me because of his PERSONAL comfort level.
You're a doctor, you're not supposed to let your "personal" views get in the way of you doing your job. Your job is to literally help people when they are sick and or injured. That's what a doctor does. Just like a waitress takes your orders and brings you things and a writer writes. It's a job, it's what you do for a living. A doctor can't call himself a doctor if he's not doing his job just like a writer can't be called a writer if they don't write! DUH!!
I was so upset, still in pain and discouraged when I left the hospital. I felt like I wasn't taken seriously and wasn't listened to.
I KNOW for a fact my doctor doesn't listen to me, he hardly remembers things I tell him or he tells me. I told him that I wouldn't go to Calgary for anything because it's over an hour away and I do NOT drive. He said he understood that. Then the next time I saw him he tried to send me to Calgary, over an hour away!! WTF?!?! OPEN YOUR FUCKING EARS!!!
If I acted like that in my field of work, I'd have NO JOB!!
I was still in a lot of pain yesterday, after being at the hospital twice, being blown off and treated poorly. I went to another town to get a second opinion.
The nurses greeted me with kindness, listened to my concerns and even gave me a hot blanket to put on my back, as I was sitting on the cot hunched forward. The doctor listened to my concerns, did some tests and gave me advice. He gave me an injection for the pain and booked me an appointment for this morning at 8:10 am to get injections in my spine to deal with the pain. He told me to come back and see him in a few days. I was HAPPY leaving this doctor and felt relieved that he was listening and HELPING me!
The nurses told me that their clinic is taking on new patients and suggested I go there from herein. Before I went home I stopped in the clinic to book a meet and greet with a doctor. I was able to book it for next week. That made me even happier.
After my meet and greet with the new doctor next week, I will be FIRING my family doctor. I can't go see someone that doesn't take me seriously, doesn't listen to me and doesn't help me with my medical needs. I will not tolerate being neglected. I will be switching myself and my kids to the new doctor.
I was told to file a complaint against my family doctor and as I said above, get a lawyer. I don't know if I will do that, as of yet but, I'll keep that on the back burner.
This isn't the first time I've had an issue with my doctor. He's also given me medications that the pharmacist found were not needed. The pharmacist wasn't sure why I was given the medications I had been given. He took me off some of them, replaced them with other medications that did suit my medical needs. I mean, it's pretty pathetic when my pharmacist is unsure why I was taking medications given to me by my family doctor. It's even worse when that same pharmacist has to speak to my doctor on my behalf to give me different medications because the ones I had were not correct.
It's even worse when I have to tell my doctor that the pharmacist and nurse I work with left him NOTES in my file!! He didn't even look! He was unaware that my medications needed to be changed and unaware that there were notes from other medical professionals left for him.
He was also supposed to fill out paperwork for A.I.S.H. so I could get on disability due to my illness and back. I sent in my papers but found out he didn't send in his so I had to refill out my papers, give them to him and ask him to get them sent in. I'm not even sure if he's done that as of yet. He has to have them into A.I.S.H BEFORE March 3rd. I'll be calling today to find out if they've been sent in yet. If not, I'm requesting that he has them filled out TODAY and I will mail them in myself. Like come on, how HARD is it to literally DO YOUR JOB!?! He's PAID to fill out the forms. He gets $50 to sit on his ass, put pen to paper and have his secretary mail it off for him.
I wish MY job was so easy! *Shake my head.*
I woke up today with my back still very sore. I'm glad to be going to get these injections. I really hope they help as this pain is taking away from my daily life. It takes away from my happiness and health. I can't do things with my kids because of the pain. I can't even grocery shop without leaning on the grocery cart for support.
The doctor I saw yesterday took a look at my Xrays and told me that I have arthritis on two spots on my spine, two different kinds of nerve damage and narrowing of my lower spine. That's why I am in pain. When I bend, twist and sit, the narrowing of my spine makes the bones rub together causing friction and pain.
If my "FAMILY DOCTOR" had bothered to DO HIS JOB, he would have seen this and been able to help me. I might have to get SURGERY on my back!! This other doctor is sending me for an MRI in about a week or so.
I refuse to go back to the joke of a family doctor I had. I refuse to be treated poorly, unkindly, disrespected and neglected. I won't tolerate it for a second. If YOU are treated poorly as well, NEVER settle, get a second and or third opinion. Doctors are NOT Gods, they're humans too with a degree, nothing more.
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