RE: [SPAM] Re: medical records question

[Guest guest]

I also had a bad experience with Dr. who told me to

go home and go to bed and take pain medications as that was the only thing I

could do. (her words) She said there was only one other patient as bad as I

was, and she was hopeless (her words). She stood there and patted my hand and

said you poor, poor thing. She just shook her head and was shocked when I told

her I was having a vestibulectomy – as they don’t do them anymore

as they don’t work. (her words). (And here I am after having a

vestibulectomy that was 100% successful.) Everyone thought I was nuts when I

first mentioned on how unhappy I was with her, as if how could I possibly criticize

the great Dr. . But I kept looking until I found a truly great doctor

who has kept up with medical technology and truly wants women to get well. Lia’s

post left a bitter taste, and I really am responding only because I hope women

don’t take the word of these so called “god” doctors and go

and find someone else. When I first got sick I believed everything they told

me, but caught on pretty quick. I hope Melinda forgets all the negative things

that Dr. said about her and finds a doctor that truly cares, as they

are out there and she deserves it (as we all do).

From:

VulvarDisorders [mailto:VulvarDisorders ] On

Behalf Of limay103

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:56 PM

To: VulvarDisorders

Subject: [sPAM] Re: medical records question

I posted recently about my bad experience with

Dr. . I

wouldn't question your own behavior. In my experience, she was

incredibly negative and pessimistic and then suggested I take valium

when I got upset. She then had a phone conversation with my

psychiatrist in which she told him I was taking a drug I wasn't

taking. It was a sad mess and I felt, frankly, that she blamed me

for reacting appropriately to her lousy bedside manner and

carelessness.

Re: your records... Some docs don't want them before they see you

because they want to form their own impressions. You could certainly

tell your new doctor that you saw Dr. and her diagnosis and

treatment was x,y,z. You needn't show them records unless they ask

for them.

And you do know there was a GREAT episode of Seinfeld about Elaine

getting " difficult " written on her medical chart, right?

Lia

Lia

> Hi all...sorry if you read this twice due to cross-posting.

>

> I just got a complete copy of my medical records from Dr. 's

> practice...I am a bit in shock and wondering if anyone else has

> experienced this. There are so many references in the transcripts

to

> what a difficult patient I am!! They call me recalcitrant,

unwilling to

> work with them, on and on. All this because I refuse to continue

taking

> meds like cymbalta that didn't relieve my pain and had really awful

> side effects for me. Am I uncommonly difficult, or is it typical

for

> doctors to be nasty like this about any patient who doesn't just

submit

> and do every little thing they say without questioning them?

>

> Melinda

>