You know you have a bad doctor when he rants away about what the government is forcing him to do:

by Parthenia
(Cotton Country, Louisiana)

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 and biopsies. His nurse asks me to ck the records to be sure nothing's changed. I'd just been there two months before so not likely my address or phone number had changed so I said 'it's unchanged'. she said, we have computer now so make sure it was all put in correctly. He's sitting beside her looking thru charts. I say, 'oh computers?' (thinking surely they had computers before!) and he starts shouting about what the government has forced them to do: put in $100,000 of computer equipment so they can be online with a central computer in cyber heaven.

I say, 'well, I'm okay with that' (meaning if I was in BFE Montana and had a medical problem, the 'central computer' would show what I was allergic to, etc) I'm in Louisiana.

I say, 'I thought the premise was a good one, centralized info'. He yells, THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE IGNORANT. There is no centralized place to find your medical info because the government can't afford to set it up!!! I say, laughingly, whoa, Dr. B, calm down, did you take your meds today?? (when what I meant was WTF do you think you are telling me I'm ignorant, and I bet you wouldn't be saying that if I were not 70 yrs. old and a man!!)

He rants and raves and tells me 'go sit down and we'll call you in a minute'. (I'm thinking, hey bud, you called ME up to the window) My instinct was to just leave but I actually wanted to know what the biopsy showed.

While I was waiting we in the waiting room could hear him on the phone. When he got off, he went off into another tirade about the patient he was just speaking to because she apparently had been suffering symptoms for two weeks and was just now calling. Very unprofessional to be blabbing her business for all to hear.

When he called me in, I said, 'are you going to hit me?' He could have laughed it off the way I was doing but he says, 'maybe, we'll see how it goes'.

We get into his office and he turned back into Dr. Jekyll. Sweet as pie, gave me all the info I was there for, thanks for bringing your blood work, good to see ya, lose 10 pounds, don't let the door hit you in the arse, etc.

Ya know, I didn't pass the laws he's having to comply with, I am not a member of the Congress and I can't change what President Obama does. So he needs to learn to exercise some self-control but I 'll never know if he does since I don't intend to see him again. Or pay his final bill, tyvm. He better be glad that I'm not writing this to the Medical Review Board.

I'm angry at him but I'm more angry at myself that I didn't just turn his desk over in his lap and leave without being seen.

And not for nuttin, but he's the second physician I've seen of Indian descent who seems to pull conversations we supposedly had out of thin air. The first was a very charming woman who would, for instance, say: ooh you should be taking potassium! And I would dutifully take potassium only to go to the next appointment where she would say, oooh nooo, you shouldn't be taking potassium! (that was the end of me and her on that one).

This has turned into the Great American Novel but I feel better. Thanks!

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