Different consultant, different attitude

Hiya Wizzy, Yes I had and have had unfortunate encounters with Doctors like those and good much better with the "other" Doctors. Where would I start. One encounter was here when I found out I was pregnant quite by surprise as always and after four weeks I lost a bit of blood and I went to the Emergency Outside Ward and the first thing the Doctor did was to look at me as if to say here we go again but because I was so upset I was only involved in my own problem. Any way I lost one twin girl at that point I sat on the edge of what we call here camilla or trolley and he said right out "we don´t do abortions here you know",. To say the least I was quite stunned by his attitude and then his Nurse took over and I told her in tears why should I want an abortion if I have come about this problem I have? I got no answer she was nicer to me than him. It turned out the little one that was left fought for her life and with rest I managed to stop the problems. Couple of months down the line I met him again and it was obvious that I was blooming with the pregnancy and he gave me the same look again but this time round I was more hardened and I walked right out of his consultancy and asked for another Doctor this same man who thought I was lookingf for an abortion was going to be my Specialist for the pregnancy. So I thought no way Jose and I changed to another one who was about as bad as the other. So I complained about their attitude and they put me with a Women Doctor and she was so easy going. Part of the explanation is that in the Province of Navarra there are no abortions practiced at all they have been like this since the times of Franco. So this Doctor treated me very badly right from the start he had no right to do that.If I had wanted to lose that Baby I would have gone elsewhere and not running off to the Hospital to try and save it. I won´t say it´s racism the way he treated me but everytime he saw me he would glare with a very strong dislike in his eyes. So that´s perhaps been one of my toughest to handle as you are very sensitive when you are only a few weeks pregnant but he treated me like that. He did not know me nor me know him. So I could not understand this attitude with all the other Spanish Women I saw he treated them fine. The last time I saw him I gave him a defiant look of here I am now say what you want to say to me. I had never had anyone so rude in all my life and there have been others. You do get them everywhere I know but this particular one beat the lot. Good job you have a very nice Doctor Wizzy.

My dad's cancer guy was an as... jerk. In fact, when I changed jobs and ended up working with a gal who had already done a couple of rounds of cancer treatments. Her doctors were in the same group, but she would wait several days for any doctor but him. Now, when I was active in a Doctor Who club and we worked the Doctor Who "beg-a-thon" at the local PBS station, it turned out that his wife (who was wonderfully sweet) was the co-coordinator and she knew my folks - their family when to my mom's church - and I have a not terribly common last name - she asked if I were my father's child.

I am fortunate, most of the medical professionals I have ever seen have been like your positive example... .except one chiropractor I saw for quite some time. I concluded I was part of his money mill, and then the surgeon that put the feeding tube in for my first husband when he was diagnosed with ALS. He, and the hospital social worker, made me feel powerless, and incompetent, and he was rude to me on the phone when I had to call with an issue. My current primary care has always been willing to see any random family member that moved in with me (that has happened a lot) and even though they have moved out, he still asks about them. He is a fast mover, and talker, though. He reminds me of some kind of a terrier dog.I imagine he was labeled hyperactive in school.

unfortunately I don't it seems these days that all doctors are just like get 'em in get 'em out attitude. they give you maybe 15 minutes if you're lucky after you've waited an hour or more & if you're fortunate enough to get one on an "on" day it just feels like saccharin to me. okay,rant over |:p

I don't have any examples for you. Just wanted to say, "Who does that guy think he is? House?" Not very professional, I'd say.

Well there was the dismissive dermatologist, the chiropractor who tried to tell me that somebody else's treatment wouldn't help me and the OB/Gyn who gave me a lecture when I thought we were going to have a discussion. Other than that, not much. I do remember this one pediatrician who told me every single thing he was doing with the children and why he was doing it and what I could expect every step of the way. I wish more doctors could be like that.