I will no longer be participating in this forum because I can no longer take the doctor-bashing (or "health care provider" if you prefer). I see it over and over again. Doctors 1)don't care about their patients 2) are only in it for the money 2) Routinely commit criminal acts such as altering records 4) are actively out to harm their patients for some unknown reason, and on and on and on.

Well, guess what I have been doing for a living for the last 32 years. I am a family practice doctor. I have done the absolute best that I could for all of my patients for all this time and have no intention of ever stopping being a caring, attentive provider with my patients' best interests at heart.

I have tried to ignore all this and understand where people are coming from. But I have come here for support and how can I get that from a group of people that hate me for what I do? Talk about triggering my depression! Oh yeah, doctors aren't supposed to be depressed are they?

Well, this is devolving into a rant rather than the rational explanation I was going for but I am not going to edit anything. I wish you all the best in the future and I will find my support elsewhere.