I had a similar experience; went to my primary doctor to beg for referral to a pain management doctor, and got a fill-in doc who said "you don't start with pain management, there are other things to try first" Uh. You have my 3" thick chart in your hand, asshole (which he did not open once during the whole visit), and that will tell you plenty about what other things I've tried. He wanted to refer me to an orthopedist. I told him the story of many attempts at PT, the amount of Advil I'd been taking daily for years, the scooter that's made it possible for me to survive, etc. He all but patted me on the head. I was too pissed/shocked/frustrated to think of asking him if I could see someone who'd actually been to medical school instead. When I went back to see the real doctor, she immediately started writing the pain management referral, while apologizing for not thinking of it before.
Can I hire you for stupid-doctor-thumping of all sorts?
Actually, I think there are probably any number of us. We could set up a doctor-thumping pool. Apparently more than one of us has had experience with doctors who need a good cluebricking, as an old friend of mine from Slashdot liked to say.
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I had a similar experience; went to my primary doctor to beg for referral to a pain management doctor, and got a fill-in doc who said "you don't start with pain management, there are other things to try first" Uh. You have my 3" thick chart in your hand, asshole (which he did not open once during the whole visit), and that will tell you plenty about what other things I've tried. He wanted to refer me to an orthopedist. I told him the story of many attempts at PT, the amount of Advil I'd been taking daily for years, the scooter that's made it possible for me to survive, etc. He all but patted me on the head. I was too pissed/shocked/frustrated to think of asking him if I could see someone who'd actually been to medical school instead. When I went back to see the real doctor, she immediately started writing the pain management referral, while apologizing for not thinking of it before.
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Actually, I think there are probably any number of us. We could set up a doctor-thumping pool. Apparently more than one of us has had experience with doctors who need a good cluebricking, as an old friend of mine from Slashdot liked to say.