Ever want to slap a Doctor through the telephone lines?

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A Doctor called to tell the wife of someone I know that he had such and such wrong with him. He, his wife, and I all tried to tell the Dr. that wasn't the problem, something else was. He was going to see the man in the hospital the next day. We could not get this dim-wit to listen. After a week of being in the hospital, a Nurse told the Dr. basically the same thing we did with some added information. Now if the Dr. would have listened the first day, gone into see him the second day, then maybe by the third day, something could have happened. No a week had to go by because when he saw the man, he still didn't listen. He listed to the Nurse and that was a Friday, so Monday before anything could be done. Basically, this Dr. tried to diagnose without seeing the patient and by ignoring what we were all telling him. I told the man and his wife that they need a new Dr. Now that they have determined it is, in fact, because his blood pressure goes down too much when he tries to stand up that he can't walk, not because of a progressively detereorating disease, he's getting somewhere. Before the Dr. was saying nothing could be done because it was just a progressive disease. He stiffens up and falls over. We told him, no, he gets weak like he's going to pass out and has to sit down. But the Dr. wouldn't listen. Thank goodness the Nurse did and took his blood pressure. So now he's week 3 in the hospital when it could have been week 2 and he's almost ready to leave the hospital. And people wonder why we have expensive health care, one week for nothing! Ever want to slap a Dr. through the phone lines?