[-jimi-]

Dear Rheumy doc,
This is a letter I'm actually going to send to you, after making it nicer. You need that, because you're such a screw up. The last rheumy that retired said I had Lupus and Sjogren's. We tried the first in line med for that. It didn't help and it messed up my tummy. So she thought I had been on it for as long as needed, before you see if it helps. And it didn't.

So I don't need to hear you say it was a too short trial, I was on it longer than any text book recommends. And no difference. And you seriously want me to take something that messes me up for NO GOOD EFFECTS? Why are you so angry when I don't want to take the med when it does me no good? Because you decided it will help. You can't decide that. My body decides that. And I'm not being bad, I can't will myself to be helped by your med. It's not an attitude problem!

And second last time, you actually told me that even that you didn't agree on my diagnoses, you said I was pretty sick, and that I had a real autoimmune illness. So why time after that did you take that back, and saying my positive antibodies (RF+, ANA+, SSA, SSB and ESR of 80-110 are normal for "me")? These are indicators something is WRONG. How hard can it be to understand that? You say some people just have to happen to have those without being ill, and I'm like that because I don't have symptoms.

If I didn't have symptoms, WHY DID I EVEN COME IN FOR HELP? Why did I wait on your stupid waiting list for a year??? I have told you about my symptoms. But you brushed them off like I lied, and said "No one that happy and perky can be ill". No? Just because I don't whine and cry???

So you say my high ESR does not signal inflammation. It's just "stuck" at those numbers. How do you think it does not signal inflammation, the test is for that and infection!!! The test has a purpose! No one has a normal of what I have! Everything over 35 is CLEARLY OUT OF RANGE. And just because you don't believe I have trouble with my breathing, hurting lungs, aches pains and so on plus so so so tired all the time, doesn't mean I don't have inflammatory processes. Stop believing and start thinking. You think my crashed thyroid wasn't victim of antibodies and inflammation? Or the swollen salivary glands? For goodness, think!

So you tell me since I only have bipolar (I ask you where you got that from and you said it was in my files and I don't believe you since I was never diagnosed BP and I've READ my files, I wanted to know who referred me and put that in. You refuse to tell me where it comes from), and I'm not longer your patient. So I start to leave. And you said you will refer me to my GP clinic for yearly followup so my kidneys don't crash from my Lupus. That I don't have. So why followups? Make up your mind!

So I contact the GP clinic when I want the followup. And they haven't gotten the referral. It gone missing the think and they contact the rheumy clinic that can't see any papers even leaving. So you did NOT refer me. Did you forget all the things you said? Then I got a stupid letter that you expected to see me again.

Why? I'm referred to my GP. They do the testing from now. Even if you screwed it up I'm with them now. WHY ON EARTH would I come back to someone who belittles EVERYTHING I SAY, take away my diagnoses and basically tells me to stop "acting" like if I had something? And tells me it's all in my head? WHY do you think I would EVER want to waste my time on someone like that? Pay money to be humiliated once again.

Forget it.

Your ex patient,
jimi

[BrokenNBeautiful]

Dear Massage Lady,

Keep your ****ing hands off my ***! This is not a massage PARLOR!!!!!

Carol

[waynec]

Originally Posted by Anonymous32449

My Doctor is fine so there's not much to say to her except thanks for your patience and understanding ...

There's plenty I'd like to say to these damn insurance companies though ...

(Insert Angry Face Here) ...

wow another reason to be gratiful. i have had the same dentist(s) practice for over 20 years and they are great. only 2 vet practices in same time. finally have a doctor i like and she is leaving to set up her own practice with a pa from same practice. i think i am going tonfollow her to her new practice. is there a lot of turnover in doctor practices or could there be a behind the scenes situation causing them to leave?

[sconnie892]

I just stumbled across this and looks like a nice place to vent:

Dear Dr.
Thanks for leaving the practicing and never notifying your patients. I felt so cared for when I found out you left by going to the clinic WEBSITE! I've been seeing you for almost 10 years! A letter would have been nice. Or at least some notification of who would be seeing me. I don't know why you left. I hope it is nothing serious. But communication is important. I feel like I was dumped.
Me.

[skeksi]

Dear Dr.,

Yes, I know I'm fat. The reasons why are complicated. Rather than telling me to go on Weight Watchers every year, why don't you sit down and ask me 1. If I am concerned and wish to change my weight; and 2. why I think I got this way. If you'd ask, you'd find out some reasons that would be very helpful--and might make you judge me a lot less.

[BrokenNBeautiful]

Originally Posted by sconnie892

I just stumbled across this and looks like a nice place to vent:

Dear Dr.
Thanks for leaving the practicing and never notifying your patients. I felt so cared for when I found out you left by going to the clinic WEBSITE! I've been seeing you for almost 10 years! A letter would have been nice. Or at least some notification of who would be seeing me. I don't know why you left. I hope it is nothing serious. But communication is important. I feel like I was dumped.
Me.

I had the same ----ing problem with a pdoc in 2007. He left and did not even refer me anywhere; I had to look on my own. I don't even know where he went or WHY.

When I called his office number, they said, "He has a right not to tell you."

So clinical and COLD.

Carol

[nonightowl]

A disturbing trend I see is less & less personal contact. My health plan is pushing their STUPID WEBSITE. I got a recorded message on my phone last week, saying how great it is. "E-MAIL your doctor, view your lab results, refill prescriptions, get stress relief tips."

I WANT to TALK to my doctor, not e-mail her!

As for stress, what they could do is LOWER their premiums and costs. THAT would do wonders for me & many others.

I was surprised that one of my long time doctors sent me a letter a few years ago saying she was officially retiring. It didn't look like a form letter at all, it sounded like she wrote it! And, she told me in person a few months before, of a couple of referrals. Anyway, she was the EXCEPTION to the rule of doctors just leaving and not telling their patients.

[theytalk2u2]

Dear Dr.

I am a human being not a case number or the schizo patient. I have a name, a face, a family, and friends. I was not cloned nor do I have the same reactions/symptoms to each of my conditions or medications as every other patient with the same condition. If I wanted a cookie cutter answer or treatment I could get that off the internet.

Please take the time to call me by my name. Listen to my questions concerns and suggestions. Yes, I understand I am not the dr however, I live in my body not you so if I tell you leg hurts and is giving out don't act quite so surprised when the ct comes back and I need surgery. See that test was necessary!!!

Also, you might want to have your nurse relearn how to take a pulse considering the ekg you just did says 126 and her evaluation said 66. That is a HUGE difference! You should know that is wrong considering I have tachycardia and take medication you prescribe for it.

Thanks so much,
Your patient of 10yrs. (Insert name here)

[kitty004567]

Dear Gastrointerologist,
Thank you for telling me that the IBS, gastritis, hiatial hernia, gastroesophogal reflux disease, the fact that my body suddenly (about 10 years ago) decided it would no longer produce enzymes to digest meat, and the fact that my stomach moves out of place to the point that it gets stabbed by my floating ribs is ALL due to the fact that I have bipolar disorder.

PS. all those stomach illnesses? The diagnosis for every last one of them preceded my diagnosis with bipolar disorder. Not to say I didn't have bipolar disorder then, I did, just no one would listen to me. No one wanted to diagnose me at 16.

Current doc- you're still on my **** list from the stuff that happened in March. Add to that the fact that your office staff refused to fax the initial results from the exam to my OB/GYN for followup testing. They get to take your place for this (since after all, you didn't even think it was important to tell me I needed follow up testing for the exposure). I had to come in person and pitch a *fit* in the waiting room to get your office staff to simply print a copy so I could take the results to my OB/GYN's office.

My OB/GYN (and all his nurses, PA, and office staff) -
I love you! You guys are phenomenal! I saw your PA for my 3 month follow up testing (yes, I know, I should have been in again since then). I told her what happened at my doctors office and after hearing the whole story she said she didn't blame me for not filing a police report. She was so calm and gentle and sweet to me while I was there. She even held my hand and walked me into the lab to get my blood work done, she held my hand while they took my blood too (totally unnecessary but so absolutely the validation I needed after having been violated in my own home and again by my doctor and her judgement of me). I wish you were a medicaid provider and I could use you as my primary care physician as well.

Pdoc - we need to talk. I'm not ok with seeing your PA every time. I know you thought I was stable and he could handle me but now I'm having to look for partial hospitalization care - NOT a place I want to be. Perhaps you could have seen this coming if you'd seen me?

Don't touch me.

dear doctor:

why do you always make things so difficult and not just jump straight to the point?

[tigerlily84]

Dear dr:

Thanks for blowing off my concerns about my new symptoms.

[sconnie892]

Dear Nurse Practitioner and your little student:
Your little "find" is going to break me financially. I hope your ******* happy with yourselves. You request all this testing and I get stuck with the bill for something that turns out to be NOTHING!!!!!
I will never ever see you again and I will never ever recommend you to my friends and family. I will tell them to run the other way.

[-jimi-]

Dear new GP,

I'm a little annoyed that you just sent me a letter and didn't call me. But I'm still glad you seem like an easygoing nice and empathic person. I'm glad you didn't just say "it's your lupus deal with it!" like my old doc did. You ran the tests and you seem to want me as healthy I can be on my own terms. You treat my symptoms and you don't think I should have to get more and more anemic. You believed me when I said my fatigue was different than my usual background tiredness!

I hope you will continue being so nice. Please don't let me down!

[Squirrel1983]

Dear pdoc,

What do you do, pick and choose what emails you will respond to? I appreciate the ones you do respond to, but does that mean you don't care about the other ones? Or do you just not know how to respond to the others? Acknowledgment that you received the emails would be nice, instead of just leaving my wondering if you read them or not.

[BrokenNBeautiful]

*why did I have to spend an hour arguing with you about your refusal to give me a pap smear?!* General practitioners give them and are you just being squeamish?! Are you afraid of looking at female parts?

(he did finally give me one, but only after I spent an hour griping to the nurse that no ob gyn's took my insurance where I am and they need to do it themselves, esp me with a family that had ob gyn cancer!)

My aunt died of br**st cancer and I don't want to be another undiagnosed cancer death!

[noneedtoknow]

Dear Pdoc
Thank you, thank you. I am so lucky to have you as my Dr. You literally saved my life. You are always so attentive and when I call, you always take what I say seriously and make adjustments as needed to meds. I can't believe I almost fired you. I'm sorry I was such a difficult patient. Thank you again for your expertise, compassion and willingness.

[BrokenNBeautiful]

Dear new pdoc,

Thanks for not forcing me to take meds with life-threatening side effects.

Also, for appreciating what I do with my life; treating me like a person.

Carol

[nonightowl]

"Dear Health Plan Administrator,

The word "urgent" means needing immediate attention, if you look it up in the dictionary. I decided to try your urgent care dept. when I found out you supposedly "expanded" your walk-in hours.

First, I tried to call you 24/7 number where you can speak to an advice nurse, to see if I needed to go there at all. After being on hold almost 10 minutes, and wasting cell phone minutes, I decided to just drive on over.

The receptionist said I needed an appointment!!! The card did NOT SAY that, the one I got in the mail. It just said, "Expanding to 10am to 9pm", when it was 5-9pm--then later 2-9pm. She said I need an appointment for between 10am-2pm, walk-in's are now 2pm-9pm. It was noon, and I didn't want to wait around for 2 hours!! I asked if she could book an appointment for me right then & there, for maybe 12:30 as an example. She said I had to do it over the phone.

I just left, and fortunately the problem cleared up on its own.

Not only did I waste time, I wasted $$$ on parking since you all charge for that too, as if you're not rich enough already with your astronomical premiums and fees.

Time is not something you can get back. Unlike money, of which you may get a refund from some places, once time is lost---it's lost.

You all SUCK! Make sure the "helpful" and "updated" info you send patients is complete, and it doesn't leave out any important DETAILS, like "Appointment needed for 10am-2pm", instead of making it look like those hours include walk-ins!"

[BrokenNBeautiful]

Originally Posted by nonightowl

"Dear Health Plan Administrator,

The word "urgent" means needing immediate attention, if you look it up in the dictionary. I decided to try your urgent care dept. when I found out you supposedly "expanded" your walk-in hours.

First, I tried to call you 24/7 number where you can speak to an advice nurse, to see if I needed to go there at all. After being on hold almost 10 minutes, and wasting cell phone minutes, I decided to just drive on over.

The receptionist said I needed an appointment!!! The card did NOT SAY that, the one I got in the mail. It just said, "Expanding to 10am to 9pm", when it was 5-9pm--then later 2-9pm. She said I need an appointment for between 10am-2pm, walk-in's are now 2pm-9pm. It was noon, and I didn't want to wait around for 2 hours!! I asked if she could book an appointment for me right then & there, for maybe 12:30 as an example. She said I had to do it over the phone.

I just left, and fortunately the problem cleared up on its own.

Not only did I waste time, I wasted $$$ on parking since you all charge for that too, as if you're not rich enough already with your astronomical premiums and fees.

Time is not something you can get back. Unlike money, of which you may get a refund from some places, once time is lost---it's lost.

You all SUCK! Make sure the "helpful" and "updated" info you send patients is complete, and it doesn't leave out any important DETAILS, like "Appointment needed for 10am-2pm", instead of making it look like those hours include walk-ins!"

Oh, this s*cks! I went thru this, too. A walk in clinic that said, "Come in between such and such hours". I can't remember them. I wish a walk in would just let you walk in 9 to 5 anytime! Urgent does mean you need to be seen right away.

Also, I had to make an appt with my new doc over the phone. Instead of making it face to face, as I was leaving, the desk woman points me to a phone in the hallway. She was answering that phone, when I called it! lol Why couldn't she just do it face to face?! lol

Carol

[BrokenNBeautiful]

stop billing me when you KNOW I HAVE MEDICAID!!!! This is the 4th time you did that! Get your gd information straight! Are you sleep-working?

[yellowted]

Dear Doc,
I know you are blxxy useless and give not a hoot about your patients but you have had 3 months to get my notes across to my new doc and still haven't. get your axx into gear and do your blxxy job for once.

[JayJay2]

It's such a relief to know that I am not alone in being frustrated with the way the doctors have treated me, I have such a lot to write about it but I don't think I can at the moment but thanks for helping me to see that I am not alone.

[Travelinglady]

Dear Doctor:

In case you just might happen to wonder why I am now going to a different doctor (but you probably don't remember me anyway), I am letting you know that your receptionist is one of the rudest, most unkind people I have ever met. Plus, if you didn't want me to use perfume or cologne when I came for my first visit, then why didn't the lady who set up my appointment tell about this policy? Same thing with bringing my medications to appointments.

Your ex-patient

[happy2day]

After reading all of these threads I have to say "I LOVE MY DR". He is always on time (within a reasonable time -10 minutes at the most),he spends as much time as I need with him, he has been awesome. He is not only helping me with seeking help and monitoring that he is dealing with the physical issues as well, that may or may not be combined. He is testing me and assuming they are not related until it is proven otherwise. He is always in contact with my therapy team and has all of the updates when I see him. Thank You Dr J.H.