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"You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When........"


Over the past 7 years, I have seen some of the best doctors in the country as well as some of the worst!

If you have a chronic illness, you have likely had a negative experience with a doctor. It is just part of the process.

I know that while you were going through the experience it was probably quite painful, but as with most things, time has probably allowed you to see the humor in it. Trust me, I had my fair share of, well let's say, not so pleasant doctors! It took time, but now I can laugh at them.

"You Know You Have A Bad Doctor When _______________."

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But keep it CLEAN! NO doctors names, addresses or home phone numbers!! Even though it may be tempting!

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Come up with a catchy title starting with "You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When________________________" and you finish the sentence.

So, if I were sharing my story I would make my title, "You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When His Diagnosis is Improper Use of Listerine." Yup, it's a true story!

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YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A BAD DOCTOR WHEN HE GIVES YOU A MED THAT CAUSES THE SYMPTOMS YOU WENT TO HIM FOR TREATMENT FOR  starstarstarstarstar
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"you know you have a bad doctor when he tells you something you already know"  starstarstarstarstar
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When ...

You know you have a bad doctor when he hides his mistakes  starstarstarstarstar
you know you have a bad oncology doctor when eight months after doing a CT scan to check for Cancer he tells you that you did not do the scan, because ...

You know you have a bad doctor when a specialist can't diagnose a disease in his specialty  starstarstarstarstar

I consulted two gastroenterologists, in two separate city's, in regards to abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, etc. that I had had for six months prior ...

You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When You Come Out of the Office Worse Off than You Were When You Went In!   starstarstarstarstar

I went to my doctor because I was developing a slight fungal infection in my big right toe. For some reason I am prone to these, so I had been through ...

You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He Can't Remember He's Ever Seen You Before  starstarstarstarstar

I'd always had good experiences with doctors until we moved to Tennessee and tried to find a new doctor. My husband finally found one who would take ...

There is medical malpractice. When they refuse to induce you and your baby dies less than 12 hours later  starstarstarstarstar

June 29th, 2007, I had a routine weekly doctors appointment. By the time I had this appointment, I was past due. My due date was June 25th. I was figuring ...

"You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He is a General Practitioner and Thinks He Is Also A Psychiatrist"  starstarstarstarstar

After going through a divorce and a bankruptcy, I was seeing a psychologist who recommended I see a Psychiatrist regarding Depression. When I went to ...

“You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He is on the Phone to His Publicist While You Are Passed Out in the Waiting Room”   starstarstarstarstar
Ok, that title might be a slight exaggeration, but not by far! I was unlucky enough to seek out a “top rated” doctor in Manhattan and thus my introduction ...

You have a five way bypass heart surgery and the surgeon forgets to connect one graft to the aorta  starstarstarstarstar
My husband had an emergency five way by-pass (CAGB) in 2005 in Bellevue, WA. Big time city and hospital. Three years later, almost to the day, he had a ...

you are told to google your health.  starstarstarstar
I went to the doctor at the first of January. When I walked in the office I thought that the only reason that I was there was because I needed to be put ...

You Know you have a bad doctor when they treat you before diagnosing you!  starstarstarstar

I'm a 38 year old non lactating female. I've had 4 shoulder surgeries on my left shoulder in the last year, the last one being a total shoulder on June ...

You Know You have A Bad Doctor When You Have To Explain To Him What You Have!  starstarstarstar
Sadly, this has happened to me.

I have also had a doctor tell me to stop taking all my medications including my heart medications! Then the doctor ...

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE AN INCOMPETENT DOCTOR ...  starstarstarstar
You know you have an incompetent doctor AND a bad nurse when the doctor is taking your blood pressure on your LEFT arm and the nurse is taking a blood ...

You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He Doesn’t Show Up to Deliver Your Baby   starstarstarstar

I went to a new OB/GYN practice. The practice included two doctors, one of whom I liked very much. Unfortunately, she left the practice late in my pregnancy ...

You know you have a bad doctor when you feel rushed all the time…  starstarstar

When I was pregnant with my daughter I decided to use my regular OB. I had been seeing her for several years now and felt fairly comfortable with her....

You Know You've had a Bad Doctor when the Best you can Get is an Apology  star


True Story....

Probably about 6 months or so ago, I had nothing. I was unemployed, no income, and no health insurance. And to top everything off,...

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Each time I've seen this gastroenterologist he gets on some tear about politics. This last visit was the end for me. I went in for a follow up to colonoscopy ...

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This ole doctor never liked me for some reason and instead of telling me so I could find another one for 7 years she would say ugly comments and she told ...

"You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He Repeats Stress Tests Over and Over Trying Different Inhalers to Fix My Tachycardia"  Not rated yet
My first tachycardia with chest pain experience was over 10 years ago. Since I was only 26, doctors attributed my symptoms to allergies and never looked ...

You have to explain the phrase "putting the cart in front of the horse".  Not rated yet
Chronic pain it's self is a disease. It comes with it's own little bag of horrors that 30 million faceless souls will have to open or not be treated. Chronic ...

56 stitches burst open on tummy and on 2 day you is sended home with a huge opening stuff with gauzes  Not rated yet
This person who call himself a doctor and left me too die, hopefully when he gets judged from God may he weep.

An Army doctor who screwed up my body ...

Keeping you up  Not rated yet
You know you have had a bad doctor when he falls asleep while your in his care

You Know You Have A Bad Doctor When She Tells You She Doesn't Want To Be At Work Today  Not rated yet
You know you have a bad doctor when she tells you that she really doesn't want to be in the office today.

It was time for my annual checkup and I fasted ...

You know your doctor is bad  Not rated yet
When your consultant specialist who has had 18 months to read your notes asks , "what is the matter with you" ?

KAPOWW THWATT BATMAN


1 Consultant ...

He does not observe proper proffesional draping and bounderies  Not rated yet
Went to specialized training on mastectomy massage. Got paired up with Mr.Obnoxious, who passed out his business card in the room, argued with the instructor,...

You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When |He Tells You Your Illness Is All In Your Mind  Not rated yet
Then he prescribes antidepressants for bad headaches, even after you've told him you are not depressed, but just feeling very unwell.

For the past 10 ...

"You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He is told in O. R. not to do the surgery  Not rated yet
I was told by a surgeon I had a hernia and it had to be taken care of. Yes I believed this quack. Well when the scope was put in they saw I do not have ...

they apply a freeze treatment to a skin blister.  Not rated yet
This happened to a friend of mine. She had an unusual problem on her foot that she wasn't sure what it was. The doctor decided that it was a wart so ...

You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When - You call for an appointment and your are told he is gone.   Not rated yet
This happened twice. Shoulda known....

First time he claimed the other Dr. in his office was using my name to collect Medicare funds. I gave him another ...

You know you have a bad doctor when ...you confide in him about something sensitive and he makes insensitive comments in return.  Not rated yet
I went to my family MD for a physical. This was the least of my issues for this particular visit. The other more serious issue was that I was losing considerable ...

you're shaking in fear that it is cancer and your doctor whispers menacingly to you, "I need you to calm down or I can't do the surgery...there will be plenty of time to break down in the recovery period."   Not rated yet
I was stunned into compliance. I guess he had me diagnosed before he even cut me. Stage IIIC ovarian cancer. I've met people in the past that I suspected ...

Collection of poor judgement and dumb decisions.  Not rated yet
Okay I've already shared two of my more lengthy stories. Instead I'll share some smaller, but still absurd stories.

1. Because of a sleepwalking accident,...

When they, don't bother to keep record of medicine being ineffective, no matter how many times it happens.  Not rated yet
This is another story from when I was growing up. While I had 1 primary care pediatrician, he worked at a practice, where I would see one of a few others ...

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know it all doctors  Not rated yet
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I do my homework. I am not a guenie pig. I do not see a doctor if he has a waiting room full of patients.

I always get an early appt. I never go on ...

he tells you Charles Schultz could have cast you as Pig Pen  Not rated yet
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You know you have a bad doctor when he tells you if you have a tumor it is your own fault  Not rated yet
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he calls you a bad mother!!  Not rated yet
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You know you have several bad doctors when they refuse to believe what you tell them.  Not rated yet
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"You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When She Does Not Care If You Live Or Die  Not rated yet
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You know you had a bad doctor when you have saw him for 28 years and he knows nothing about you  Not rated yet
I was seeing A ob/gyn for abnormal growths, he had me off and on HRT for about 2 years......................... finally did HYSTERECTOMY DUE TO pelvic ...

you keep telling him the the treatment isn't working and he ignores you.  Not rated yet
For over a year I was getting treatment for patellar tendonitis. I wasn't getting any better and the worker's comp insurance closed the case! Finally I ...

butcher NOT a doctor  Not rated yet
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I had two surgeries with the same doctor ( what was I thinking me to go for the second one with him well I thought that if he knew that the first ...

you have to demand treatment for your condition.  Not rated yet
I had been seeing a gastroenterologist (that surprisingly-lol, my sister referred me to) for some time (longer than a year) with many visits resulting ...

you go to the doctor...  Not rated yet
really.. are there any doc's who actually care about people out there anymore? have there ever been? I have lost all faith in this community of people....

he writes in your childs medical file "mother is very aggressive" because you asked him a question contradicting his assumptions  Not rated yet
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You have to take a tape recorder in to record the visit  Not rated yet
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You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He Won't Answer Your Page In An Emergency  Not rated yet

When I was twenty-three years old, I found out that I was pregnant. My doctor gave me instructions to get my ultrasound. When I went to get my ultrasound,...

You know when you have a bad doctor when he prescribes diet pills to an 8 year old   Not rated yet

I was a sickly baby, having had anemia. The pediatrician told my mom that I needed iron, so they made me take the terrible taking stuff by mouth. It ...

You know you have a bad doctor when you leave a hospital with an IV line in to go to another hospital  Not rated yet


Realy, it is a true story. Right after my daughter was born I came down with a serious kidney infection. After a week of 105 degree temperatures, it ...

You know you have a bad doctor when he prescribes diet pills instead of urging healthy eating and exercise  Not rated yet

A few months ago, I went to the doctor for my annual physical. Toward the end of the exam, he asked me if I had any questions or issues. I replied as ...

You Know You Have a Bad Doctor When He Says It's All in Your Head - And Your Gut Tells You "No"  Not rated yet

It was my first real job out of college. It even had health insurance, though very limited, but it covered both me and my new husband. When I started ...

You Know You Have A Bad Doctor When.......  Not rated yet
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