Ignorant Doctors?

[DeadDuality]

So, anyone here have experiences with doctors that just insist they're right, so much that they ignore everything else that has been done or said?
My wife just got her pregnancy papers from a local academic hospital (which is absolutely terrible, brings people in room without asking, has had a receptionist tell her to take anxiety meds because the receptionist is being retarded, etc.) and we noticed that their math is a bit wrong.

What are your guys's worst experience with a doctor, nurse, etc.?

 

[DeadDuality]

Also, note. They tried telling her that they wouldn't induce her until January (almost a full year after conception), til recently.

 

[yo]

I feel like this question is more suited for Reddit, but maybe our mature mcm has things to offer

 

[DeadDuality]

I feel like this question is more suited for Reddit, but maybe our mature mcm has things to offer

Well we have lawyers, older people, there's got to have been people that have had some shitty run ins with doctors or hospitals.

Haha I totally feel this, when I was pregnant my doctor's surgery told me they couldn't get me a midwife appointment for my 36-week checkup until after my baby was due (by about a month) and adamantly refused to see me :tup:

They also messed up his immunization appointments every. single. time. Each appointment we'd arrive and they'd say "Oh! it's too early!" even though they prebooked the appointment themselves, and we'd ring each time before to check, I complained to the head admin lady and she told me "I should be more organized" bruh. I just had a baby, I don't have time to write notes!!!!

For me it was mostly midwives, being a first time parent is scary enough (i am pretty young still too) and it doesn't help when the people who are supposed to help you are useless! Sorry for my rant! at least the NHS is free.

That's kind of shitty. When they're the ones booking the shit they really don't have any right to say it's early. Guess places just go further downhill as time goes on.

And yeah, it's our first one too. It's stressful, and it's more stressful when the ones that are supposed to help are not only useless (like hell how does someone only get 4 days further in a pregnancy almost 4 weeks after the last visit), but tend to kind of take advantage of younger first time moms, or just berate them. Hell, my wife was telling me that a girl that was about 18 was getting belittled by a doctor and called a terrible and neglectful mother, because she painted her 2 year old daughter's nails.

The doctors she see keep getting changed around every visit, so she doesn't actually build any familiarity, and they all have different things they need to say. Nobody told her that she has the right to actually tell the students at the clinic, to get the fuck out. Nobody asked if she was comfortable with it, just putting her shit open to the students like a sideshow.

 

[adamawesome135]

Ya a bit some that does know how to give ivy had about 9 or so and then finally figured it out I was about to smack them

 

[Violet]

I have no idea what im looking at but i think is very bad!

 

[Ellie]

I think it really depends on the doctor and practice. I’ve had great ones and really shit ones.
It took 6 months of me seeing different doctors after being so exhausted I couldn’t lift my head up, constantly nauseous and generally like a vegetable along with some other issues before anyone would take me seriously. And that was only really because she was a brand new GP that the last one even listened to me.

But even after that they promised to take blood tests then didn’t on the day. Had to take pills for another 3 months before any improvement. Even now I’m not convinced everything is better but I know if I go back it’ll take so much time before anything happens that I just don’t feel it’s worth it.

It sucks but whenever going to see a doctor you really have to put your foot down sometimes. I had a doctor ignore me until I left the room because I was just overreacting.

 

[DeadDuality]

I have no idea what im looking at but i think is very bad!

The picture is her gestation age of the baby. So she went from 18 weeks and 4 days one month, to 19 weeks and 1 day, nearly a full month after the last appointment. They put her behind schedule almost a full month for her delivery.

I understand how you feel man! I think doctors are so overrun at the moment they just think of us as numbers! If you ever need to talk my DMS are open, I got lucky in the end I called around and got ahold of a community midwife instead of the doctor's surgery ones, she was nice as fuck and told it how it is. My MIL said the same thing about them taking advantage, you have to speak up or they will just take the piss, unfortunately

are you in America? I can't suggest much but you can ALWAYS ask for a new doctor or a different midwife in England, do you have a support worker/health visitor it might help to bring it up to them

Yeah, America. We were going to go so somewhere else, but nobody else would take her since she had gone to a different clinic from the start. That's why we got all her sunmary papers, if she starts going into labor we're going to a better hospital. She wants an epidural, but not at that place. Bad technicians and fucked up doctors. She was talking to someone in the waiting room, they said their sister went to the hospital to give birth, a tech wasn't doing things right and paralyzed her sister for life because of the epidural.

I think it really depends on the doctor and practice. I’ve had great ones and really shit ones.
It took 6 months of me seeing different doctors after being so exhausted I couldn’t lift my head up, constantly nauseous and generally like a vegetable along with some other issues before anyone would take me seriously. And that was only really because she was a brand new GP that the last one even listened to me.

But even after that they promised to take blood tests then didn’t on the day. Had to take pills for another 3 months before any improvement. Even now I’m not convinced everything is better but I know if I go back it’ll take so much time before anything happens that I just don’t feel it’s worth it.

It sucks but whenever going to see a doctor you really have to put your foot down sometimes. I had a doctor ignore me until I left the room because I was just overreacting.

That's actually really terrible. That would be a pretty serious thing to just have dismissed. The hell is wrong with some places. At least there was improvement though, that's better than just being stuck in that kind of situation with no end.