Very important...please read..............

the army referred my daughter to a doctor here in town. she has gone to him for a long time. she has a tumor and suffers greatly before, during and after her period. he has been giving her 45 pain pills for a three months supply. she went to him last week, in horrid pain, and he refused to give her any more meds. he said he was "afraid" that she was addicted. it'd be pretty had to get addicted to 45 pills in 90 days. at least that's my take on that!!

i suggested that she go to my female doc. she requested her records from dr. G. this a.m. she came to my house in hysterics! she handed me the records and i could not believe what i was reading. they were full of inaccurcies, lies and supposition. i was absolutely floored. he even wrote about mine and r.j.'s marriage! about her having had a stepfather, etc. etc. and about "why we divorced"...........????? he said she dressed "hippyish" and was discheveled. (sp) she was in extreme pain and had perfectly ordinary jeans and a tee on. with a coat.

if she can't get pregnant again, they are going to adopt. they would never, ever be able to adopt if an agency saw what he has in her records. that's how bad it was. no one would let her have a baby!

i walked over and picked up the phone and she asked me what i was doing. i said i'm calling him. i called and asked for his nurse. i used calm and firm words. i said "inappropriate, appalled, aghast, inaccuracies, suppostitions and untruths". i said that i had been married to a doctor (which of course he knows) and that i knew that he had never, ever considered charting like Dr. G did. i didn't threaten, i didn't raise my voice, totally calm. the nurse, very angrily, asked me what i was doing reading her records. i said i am her mother and she handed them to me! she said where is your daughter? i told her that she is standing right in front of me in my livingroom! she started telling me that medical records are private. i reminded her that a transcriptionist and nurses had already seen these "private" records!!

within two hours, he called colleen and totally begged her to not do anything and that he would expunge all of the errors from her records and give her a new set. he kissed up like crazy. he begged and she yelled. he begged her to not let this get out!!!!!!!!! guess he remembered that i've lived here longer than he has and have longer relationships with the docs here than he does.

i had already called my friend, the ER doc and told him what happened. he said that Dr. G could lose his med license over it. colleen was planning to go to a lawyer this afternoon.

folks, ask for your records immediately. i beg you to do this. read them over. the law states that the doc has to give you a copy of what's in your folder. no questions asked. there could be anything in our charts!!

so................i called a friend at the courthouse and asked her if she knew anything about him. she said she would ask around. she called me back immediately and started talking and then i remembered what i knew from about 3 years ago. he and his wife had a "sex" party with teenagers and one of the parents reported them to the police and it turned into a lawsuit. she is now checking to see if he has malpractice suits filed against him. i had totally forgotten about the party thing as i didn't know him at that time and i still don't know him. i know that at some time colleen had mentioned his name but it didn't click with me....depression and all really affects my memory.

incidentally, my doc was totally kind to her and checked her out thoroughly and gave her a prescription and told her to call at any time if she is uncomfortable next month. she isn't willing to have a hysterectomy until it might become apparent that she can't get pregnant again. stella was born at 24 weeks.

my sister really teased me about kicking his "butt". i feel like he needs more than his butt kicked.

FYI!!

As a transcriptionist for the last 16 years, I can't believe that a PROFESSIONAL MT would even transcribe that. You're never supposed to enter other people's personal business in a patient's chart, and certainly not supposed to use names. I used to transcribe for a GYN doc who used to start going on about the patient's neighbors and their boyfriends and the STDs they had. We were instructed to just let the tape roll and leave out any info that didn't pertain directly to the patient.

Take that guy to the cleaners, Pat.

Sounds like a DOCTOR needs to be put in his proper place.... through the courts of course or through the neck ringer (like the ones used to get use the chicken we eat) - - - Eeeek!!



LoVe,
Rhapsody -

Thank you, Pat. I'll be asking for my records from my Gastro Dr. He basically decided since I'm bipolar, it's all in my imagination although I have ulcerative colitis and IBS. It will be most interesting to see what he says.

Tell your Dr to sue the man. He does not need to have a practice.

Hugs,

Jan

i can guarantee you that he is scared to death now! his office is across the street from me, in the hospital. i felt like picking up a baseball bat and going over there! and can you believe what the nurse said to me about reading my own daughter's med records???????????? what an office it must be!

the hospital dictation is sent to India and transcribed there. can you belive it? outsourcing the radiology also. a doctor in India reads your x-rays and sends the results back over a computer.

Thanks for posting this.

so sorry this happened to your daughter but just think how many folks have been saved from so much anguish by exposing this dr....thanks for the post

Fayerody,

Well done for standing up to this so-called-doctor.
I think you were very brave.

Wow........he needs to be reported for sure ! In VA there is a website that lists all Doctors and if they have ever had a malpractice claim against them, perhaps there is one in your state also. I got the website address from the local Hospital.

I hope the lawyer is a good one, and in the future this so called Doctor is working at Mickey D's !

I'm absolutely speechless!!!!!

Sending transcriptions to India now!!! HUH????????

Good work, Pat!!!!!!

India!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want some Dr in India reading my Xrays! I want someone to hold the film and clamp to the light and read it. I'm a real person and I have real Xrays! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Jan

I verified that my xrays would be read locally...but they are electronically transferred to a main hospital (so I went there for my xrays! ) I think the outsourcing of everything to India and peaked... but who knows where it will go next?

I think Sky might be right on outsourcing reaching it's peak, or at least I hope so. The quality of the work is right up there with the lower rates they're paid. I QA'd for a year, cleaning up the mess of the offshore transcriptionists. An experienced English-speaking transcriptionist could take care of it for 8 cents a line, but by the time it had to go through QA it cost 12 cents a line and often missed turn-around time because of the extra time sitting in the QA queue. If it missed turn-around time, the clinics and hospitals didn't have to pay for that job, but the office still had to pay the transcriptionist and QAer.

Financially, it's not the greatest situation.

Just because you can two-finger type, have headphones and a keyboard does NOT mean you can be a transcriptionist.

i spoke to the Inspector General at the Army hospital yesterday and he is taking over and Dr. G. will rue the day that he ever heard of Ft. Sill and my daughter!!

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I'm sorry your daughter had to go through that, Fayerody. Everything about the situation is outrageous. I'm glad you are pursuing legal action in spite of his begging. This guy should not be practicing medicine!