I have a bias against socialized medicine, Bipolarmedstudent. Remember that you are paying for your treatment, but by paying your taxes! I won't get started about how I feel about Obamacare. That's another issue....

Thanks so much for starting this thread!

"Dear Doctor:

Please remember to tell your nurses to look over the test results carefully before calling me to report on them. I received a call telling me my Vitamin D was still too low, so I needed to take more, and that my Vitamin B12 was way too high, so I needed to cut down on that. So, I went out and bought the appropriate bottles with less or more of these vitamins.

The next day your office calls me again and says, 'All your results were normal.' What? Come to find out, my Vitamin D hadn't even been tested, but the sheet (which I later got a copy of) happened to have the previous report results on the bottom of the first page. And the B12, I found out, is not an issue to be concerned about!

Also, I had an appointment to talk to you directly about the results of my additional mammogram work. But first thing that morning the nurse calls and says, without any introductionary remarks, "We have you scheduled for a biopsy. You have a breast mass."

I later discovered that the biopsy was to be done on the breast without the mass, because it showed increasing calcifications. The mass had already been determined to be a benign cyst, which I found out was even stated on the report! But your nurse didn't tell me that important bit of information!

And, doc, when I did see you directly, you sort of blew me off, saying regardless, the findings wouldn't be anything to worry about. You just in passing said something about calcifications and maybe cancer that had not spread. You didn't even tell me about the results of the breast mass. The mass was what I was worried about all along, since I had felt it before the mammogram was done! I didn't even know anything about any calcifications, since they only showed up in the testing! As a result, you had me more worried then ever!!

Maybe from now on you should just mail me my reports and let me read them for myself! Thank you!

Sincerely,

Your annoyed patient"