I can't stand doctors like that who won't

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First they make you wait out in the lobby and then they make you wait in the examining room. I don't mind a wait as long as I can be in the lobby and talk/see people. I despise having to wait for a long time in the exam room. I get lonely.

I wish the nurses could time it so you only had to wait in the examination room 5-10 minutes.

I've been in the medical field since 1971.

I was just venting a little - we were so relieved it wasn't bedbugs, and we were hopeful that we would find the real cause and be able to eliminate it. It was kind of a let-down when we didn't.

As far as we know, my husband hasn't been exposed to anything unusual at home or on the job, and his food intake has been normal - nothing unusual.

The only thing we can think of is we moved into this house late last summer, so he did mow the grass a couple of times, but of course different things grow and bloom in the spring than in late summer and fall. He does generally have the usual allergies involving itching eyes, runny nose, sinus congestion, etc., but he has never had a reaction like this. He was a Boy Scout and went camping and hiking all the time, so I know he knows what poison ivy looks like! And it doesn't look like poison ivy rash.

Maybe somebody out there has had a similar experience and can help us - let me describe his symptoms. It usually starts out as a series of small red bumps that are in a fairly straight line. For example, in the crease of his right arm, there are about six little red bumps going straight down (proximal to distal) from the crease in a space of about 1.5 to 2 cm. There is another line, about 1 cm medial to that one, running up the arm (distal to proximal), about the same distance. When he scratches them (he tries not to, but sometimes you just gotta), they appear to turn into one big linear welt.

Any ideas? TIA. And many thanks to those who have been following our "saga".

I needed bilateral ear surgery (typmanoplasty and mastoidectomy) not too long ago. The physician left it up to me which ear to do first, depending on my pain and hearing. I chose the left due to the amount of pain and drainage.

I reported to the hospital (a very prestigious teaching hosptial - in US New and World Reports top 5) that morning and the OR consent form stated the wrong ear. It said the right, rather than the left.  I explained to the resident it was wrong and he proceeded to ARGUE with me, that I should just sign the consent form.  I finally asked to see my own surgeon prior to signing and he agreed with me and changed it and reversed the OR equipment etc.

In my case it would not have made much difference since I needed 2 surgeries any way.

But what about the older, scared, and confused patient with no family there?

Maybe the patient did state the prima donna physician did not listen. 

Doctors

   (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.

   (B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

   (C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services

Now think about this:

Guns

  (A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million)

  (B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

  (C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner .000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI

So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!

Just got back from the neurologist's office. This is a doctor I have seen now approximately 3 times. I try my best to furnish any and all reports I think necessary for a physician either prior to seeing them for a particular issue or when I see them such as recent MRIs, lab tests, office notes and the like from another physician's office that I think might be pertinent to why I am seeing the present doctor. 

Have foot issues (along with a couple other things) but 2 weeks ago I called 2 different podiatrists offices where I have recently been asking that they fax (given number) office notes to the neurologist. Both offices I had visited for the same exact foot issues, no diagnosis and no help. The neurologist did not have the information requested from the 2 other offices this morning, 2 weeks later. When I told him had lots to talk about he said well start. I did and then he told me I was supposed to have told all that information to the person who took my blood pressure, checked my reflexes and so on. Well, not a mind reader here and I told him had the other offices done as requested, then maybe he would have some information before him to go by.

Why, why are people not doing their jobs? It has nothing to do with the economy (this was happening at least 5 years ago when the economy better) but people are so slack now days it just ticks me off. Blowing smoke out ears as I write this.

and leave you hang out to dry on the most obscure term or referring physician spelling if it is an odd name.  I'll be darn though, they will spell out "the" t-h-e, p-a-t-i-e-n-t, but never the hard stuff... . ?????  I wonder why?  People using cell phones when they are driving and not paying attention.  People that pull out in front of you, and then go 5 mph.  I hate it when the grocery bagger puts all the soap products in with my meat or food goods!  Great, now the roast smells like Dove Cucumber and Melon bar soap?  Hubby is going to think this is delicious!!!!!  UUGGHH! 

I married older because I thought he would have his you-know-what together.  WRONG!  He went down, financially-speaking, and took me down with him.  I heard he's in the middle of divorcing his third wife (I was his second).

But...boy, did I love him.

Her daughter called and maybe she did think her mom was upset, but the fact that her mom got annoyed by this is just insane.  If she was on an important phone call with her dying aunt, why she bothered to answer her other phone, no matter who was calling, is beyond me.  As a result, she posted this topic about whether she should let the answering machine get the phone or she should disconnect her phone. That is a no brainer.  If you don't want to talk to someone or are on another important call, let the answering machine get it.    She made mention that she might let the answering machine pick up all of her daughter's calls and not call back just to see what her daughter will think.....isn't that a bit childish.

So I don't know her whole family history and maybe her son is an ungrateful turd.  If he won't talk to his mom because she got money he thought he deserved, that is his problem.  But for her to not be the adult and bigger person by at least trying to mend that relationship......as far as I'm concerned, she can't blame everything on him if she isn't willing to mend it either.

As for her happiness and family getting her down....sounds to me as if she is the one who thinks her family owes her something since she bailed her son out of jail and paid for her daughter's college.  If she is so happy with her laugh and content, why in the world she is posting on here about whether or not she should let the answering machine pick up her daughter's phone calls? 

I have no sympathy for someone who isn't smart enough to make the decision of whether or not to answer her telephone. 

Why do our companies never stand up to dictators like this?  I have one who honestly sounds like he's drunk and he speaks English as a first language!  I call him smushmouth because all I can understand is smusha-smusha-smusha at any speed level.  I had one at an old hopsital who had narcolepsy!  He would literally fall asleep while dictating so you'd have to sit there and wait for him to wake back up and then he'd start over or start in the middle of a sentence he never began.  Drives me nuts.

What kills me too is that one of my in-laws is from Russia.  Her mom was a doctor there.  She can't become a doctor here because she says her English isn't good enough and it costs so much money to take the tests to get her reciprocal certification.  Heck her English is 10 times better than half the idiots we get so how do THEY pass the test?  Sorry needed to vent today!

I watch MAYBE 1 hour a week of regular ol' TV and that is just local news blurbs.  I am a big movie fanatic though.

What I really can't stand about the crap coming over the airways is the constant barrage of DRUG ADS--whether they are for prescription drugs or OTC stuff.  It's just too much.

I saw a spot on the news about how stores are contemplating putting in little LCD screens into those "kiddie carts" that the adult can plug $1 into, put the kid in the plastic car/cart thing, so the kid basically can stay numbly tuned into some show while the parents shops in quiet comfort. 

Heaven forbid kids are made to behave while out in public.  Oh don't even get me going on the sheer retardedness of it all...