Doctors that SUCK

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Treeinthewoods

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Hmmm, I've never had a bad experience with any doctor here. Honestly, even at the little university clinic I used to visit I was always treated promptly, charged fairly and always got the treatment I needed.

And I must say, there is a very good chance that the doctor you are so much smarter then may have diagnosed pink eye several times before, they may even know if a pink eye out break is occurring in your area.

I'm sorry, but one thing people need to learn is how to trust the doctor. Unless you yourself are a doctor you do not know what they know. The dumbest doctor on earth knows more about being a doctor then you do. Hell, graduating last in your class from medical school means you know more about medicine then the valedictorian from the business college.

Try the pink eye treatment, if it doesn't work you know you need to switch doctors. You won't die from it!
 

Lilani

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Several years ago, my brother had one wisdom tooth that needed to be removed. They were able to just pull it out, and it left a rather large hole in his gum. Over the summer his cheek was swelling up and down, so we called the place up and one of the nurses said that swelling was normal. It only swelled more though, so we got ahold of the doctor that did it--a very kind man in his 80s. He told us that wasn't normal, and said to come up there as soon as we could.

A week before we went up there, that very same doctor had back surgery. He came in that one day just to see my brother--nobody else. He wanted to personally make sure nothing else was overlooked. He decided it was an infection of some kind, but couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was. So he gave my brother a sweeping antibiotic that cures just about everything but the kitchen sink.

Long story short: Doctors can be stupid sometimes, but other times they are awesome and go above and beyond the call of duty.
 

Megalodon

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El Poncho said:
I haven't come across one bad doctor, plus I don't have to pay a lot of money for anything either.

Thank you NHS:)
Yep, pretty much this.
Only annoyance I've had is when I was 17, so still in children's outpatients. So I was there in a full pin striped suit (which I had to ware to school), surrounded by irritating small children, feeling damn overdressed. Which really isn't a massive problem.
 

Soushi

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Whew, I thought you were talking about DR. Who for a second there and thought i was going to have to ask you to step outside.

ON topic though: We in Canada totally agree, American healthcare does suck, and we would have a lot more sympathy for you if you people didn't keep shooting down every single attempt to make your healthcare system better by whining about how it is socialist and hissing like a pissed off Na'vi when you get informed your taxes will have to be raised a few bucks to pay for it. We are also partially mistified by teh fact that you don't get totally fucking angry when your politicians shoot down better healthcare reform for you in such a way that they might as well be wearing giant neon signs that say "big drug company backers". I think one of your politicans said it best, when asked about good healthcare he said, "All i can suggest is stay healthy" and the thing was, he wasn't even being sarcastic.
 

Blind Sight

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That's a shame, up here they just keep you in a waiting room for hours. I had glass in my bloody head and I had to wait hours because I wasn't 'critical'. People older then me who arrived later then me also got to see a doctor first. Methinks the Canadian system is ageist haha.

In the end I just said screw it and went to my aunt's, who's a nurse. It look fifteen minutes to pull the glass out (it fucking hurt though). I guess the moral here is that most healthcare sucks for different reasons.
 

Snipermanic

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I had a doctor that once said my knee condition would be better in "a couple of weeks", that was 9 years ago, it's still here.
 

shadyh8er

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Could be that some doctors have to take a lot of shit from people and they take it out on future patients.

Like my dad had this one patient who brought her daughter in where they had the following exchange:

Dad: "What's wrong with her?"

Woman: "Her knee is swollen."

Dad: "It looks OK to me."

Woman: "It's swollen."

Dad: *sigh* "Fine let's measure it and see if it is."

[after measuring]

Dad: "See? Both her knees are the same width."

Woman: "Oh my God! They're both swollen!"
 

Tartarga

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That kind of thing has never happened to me, the doctors in my area seem to take their jobs seriously which is good for me I guess. But look at it this way, if your alement gets worse to a certain extent you could probably sue that doctor for loads of money.
 

Strain42

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Dr. Pepper, I didn't feel better after that at all...just ended up throwing up more...
 

Rouse

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Not only american doctors mate.
Sad truth is, my grandpa died because of a doctor's mistake. And my math teacher almost got blind the same way. I never trust any of these bastards.
 

Danny Ocean

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Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
But even after cathing had been proven unnecessary, he STILL wanted to do it just to satisfy his curiosity. Seriously, that's what he said. I switched doctors after that.

And if any of that made you uncomfortable, just think about how I feel.[/spoiler]
That wasn't for curiosity, it was for money. Needless expensive operations make them extra dosh.
 

Jaded Scribe

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I was having severe breathing problems a couple years ago (doing simple tasks, like walking across the room) would leave me wheezing and short of breath.

I went in to one of the on-campus doctors, they saw that I'm asthmatic and I smoke. With nothing more than a cursory check, they said "Take an inhaler and quit smoking".

The problem continue for another two months before I ended up in the hospital and learned I had walking pneumonia. GG.

But I agree, a few bad doctors do not reflect on a bad healthcare system.