Dissatisfied with care received?

[beak]

There's a reason why they put a big x on what needs to be operated on. Something to do with Doctors and nurses being human.

I'm glad I have a wife that knows a bit about medical stuff. She makes a great advocate. I almost OD'd after a knee operation while I was in recovery. Too much pain med. My wife recognized what was going on by my blood pressure and Oxygen saturation and alerted the nurse.

 

[Godsgrl]

Poor guy

My dd went through the wringer when she had appendicitis last month. We took her to the local hospital, and they kept her for 3 days for no good reason. (they said maybe it would go away. @@) Then they couldn't get her IV in ,and once they did get a good one in, they took it out.

The nurses kept telling dd it was just her monthly period. @@ yeah, right. Finally they transferred her, and the surgeon immediately took her to surgery. Found out later the first hospital only kept her for the insurance money. Well, that is the last they will see of our insurance money. From now on we'll just skip the little good for nothing hospital and go straight to the bigger one.

 

[goobhen]

I went to the emergency department of the hospital where I work. The staff was great, ED doctor, I am sure is a decent doctor....just not at the end of his shift! Waste of my insurance deductable, co-pays. The way the insurance was billed, I got dinged for inappropriate use of the emergency dept! Then 5 days later I was admitted for the same diagnosis that I went to ED for! To make matters worse, surgeon that saw me when I was an inpatient said there was nothing wrong with me! Nine months later my GI doctor referred me to another surgeon, who removed my gallbladder within two weeks! I feel so much better now! I have learned when it is your health, you are your own advocate! It doesn't always pay to be nice. I cried with relief when I got the biopsy report which showed adhesions, chronic inflammation! PS, I called the insurance company & talked to a case worker about the er visit, she (without telling me) put through my claim as a justified reason for using the ED and the hospital refunded me $2,500.00.

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

Everytime I go in, I come out with a new allergy discovered.

The big oops was giving me morphine when I told them I was allergic. I only have very vague recollections of the ensuing panic as they frantically had to change all the tube in my 'click your way to a pain free you" machine.

Why they always ask what it does to you when you tell them is beyond me.

That said, I have had FABULOUS nurses. One discovered a rash - hello, new drug allergy. She said "oh, you have a rash." and I responded that it was there when I was admitted and she said that she had already seen that one, this one was new.

A couple of days later, doc decides I need an enema. I knew it was nothing that couldn't be fixed by going home. That same nurse comes in and I told her I really didn't want or feel I needed it and she gave me the most valuable piece of information I ever could need. I have the right to refuse treatment.

 

[babylady4]

As a mom with a child who has a chronic health condition, I have discovered one should ALWAYS question everything... from meds to procedures. The only one who is truly looking out for you is YOU!!

That being said after the birth of #4 my idiot GP told me I might have uterine cancer so lets do a bunch of invasive tests since the insurance will cover it!!! I told her no thanks and left. That was 6 years ago and I'm still kicking so......

(I was diagnosed with having low hormone levels prior to #4's arrival and ASKED the Dr. if that could POSSIBLY be causing the issues I was having and I was told NO.....)

I believe that Dr. is no longer practicing due to getting sued too often......

 

[shelleyd2008]

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They ask what it does to you because they think you're an idiot or that you are lying. I'm allergic to cefelasporins, and they always ask me what it does to me. I tell them I've only taken 2 doses in my entire life. I ask them if they know all the 'call your doctor if' things that come on the paper with the meds? I get all of them but hives...So then they try to give me something other than Ceclor, but in the same group, like Keflex

No thanks, not going through that one again!

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

Wow!.........................................

 

[beak]

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I had a hernia for a few years that finally strangled my intestine. I could tell by the way it felt that something was plugged so we went to the ER. ER doctor sends me for an x-ray and calls in the on call surgeon. They shoot me up with Diladid to ease the pain. Told me it had to be repaired but I could schedule it or do it now. I was high as a kite said do it now. Turned out if I had not done it they would have had to resection my intestine and put in a colostomy bag for a while. At any rate the insurance company tried to ding me too. for the same reason as you. I explained that the intestine was being strangled and they verified with the surgeon and changed the billing. You really have to watch out for that kind of stuff. Coding is everything.

 

[wombat]

When I came down with apendicitis, I had a hard time convincing the ER doctor (who looked disturbingly like Steve Martin) that I had it. He kept suggesting other causes.

I wanted it out via laproscopic surgery, and if he waited too long, that would have not been possible.

Eventually, after about 7 hours in the ER, I got them to call in a surgeon.

The surgeon was a little old foreign fellow with an accent ... he started lecturing the ER doctor ...

"Halfway down line from navel to pelvic bone, only two things! Appendix, or ovary! Him male! How come you not figure out diagnosis?"

Luckily, I got the laproscopic surgery in time, avoided the huge incision and maybe worse, the way the ER doc was handling things.

I had to take my wife to the ER with severe pain, and the ER doc said it was "gas." The ER nurse correctly identified an acute gall bladder obstruction. The doc shrugged, said "probably right", and left the room. My wife ended up needing her gall bladder removed.

I've not been all that impressed with the docs I've come into contact with. If anything serious happened to me, I might call my vet. He's a smart guy who went into his career for the love of it. Most docs seem like they went into it for the money or to please their parents.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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And the best part is you wouldn't even have to tell him what's wrong

I know, not funny