Re: Anne complaining about doctors

[Guest guest]

Hi Aletta

How I feel for you over this. Some doctors ar just ignorant pigs!!!!

I saw one for a year complaining that I couldn't eat!! He formed the

opinion that I was probably anorexic and could eat if I wanted to!!

Unfortunately my regular gastro ws overseas at the time. The first doc

even tried nasal gastric feeding that I couldn't keep down. My

husband was accused of not giving the feed because I was still losing

weight.

When my own doc came back he knew me better and the first test he

orfered was a gastric emptying test. Bingo there was the answer. My

stomach was not getting any messages from my brain to work. Now have

a gastric pace maker and can eat quite normally. I have regained 6

kilo's

(about a stone)!!! I am still comtemplating what to do about the

ignorant pig!! He should in some way pay for his crime. Mostly

though to prevent him from doing this to anyone else!!!

I wish your son well with a better doctor. Love Anne

> I had mentioned putting in a complaint against my former GP to the

College

> of Physician's and Surgeons. This GP was still (at my son's

request) my

> son's GP (that proves he's nuts rightLOL!) Well the SOB sent this

letter

> to me and I came home to it friday.

> Re: your letter of March 25, 2002

> (the one where I asked him to help myson and pass on relevant

information

> for his benefit)

>

> I am unable to continue in any capacity to look after your family.

>

> Yours truly etc.

>

> Now I have faxed this reply:

> Dear Dr. ***:

> This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter (date March 26 2002) and

> voice my disappointment. Since my son is an adult of twenty-three

years, I

> expect you will explain it to him, as it is not my job to do so. The

> disappointment is in the timing which I interpret as a callous

indifference

> to my son's suffering. I will not be conveying this news to him as

it is in

> my judgment best to leave it to you. If the intent was to hurt me,

you have

> succeeded. I hope you treasure the moment

>

> Yours sincerely,

> Aletta Mes

>

> This is the kind of crap you can expect when you complain against a

> doctor. Add that to the number of physicians who refused to take me

as a

> patient - who knows what other influence he will try to exert.

Lesson, to

> follow this path is hazardous. Nevertheless, someone has to make

sure that

> doctors are not allowed to forget they're sworn to do no harm. I

sincerely

> wish more doctors would act for their patients not the 'brotherhood', I

> held them in higher regard than that. ly didn't want to spend

energy

> continuing with the complaint, but it would be wrong to let this go.

Wrote

> a six page letter responding to the College's letter to me outlining

the

> doctor's position and telling them of the newer developments.

Starting to

> regret not going straight for a lawyer (despite my allergy to them).

Not

> sure after all this I or my family will be able to gain fair access to

> medical care without leaving the province.

>

> So that's how I spent Easter, that and visiting my son in hospital.

>

>

> aletta mes, vancouver, bc canada

> http://www.aletta.0catch.com