Have you ever been treated like a piece of dirt by a Doctor?
I am asking this question for a friend of mine that has a really sad and incurable condition. And they saw a MD in New York that had really horrendous and atrocious bedside manners. He gave my friend a really hard time. Even when they were paying for treatment from a person that should have been cordial and more caring and merciful. Because this Doctor might one day be in my friends shoes one day. My friend ended up feeling like less than dirt. I told him I would put this on the net. To #1 vwarn people about this MD and #2 to get input to see are we on target or are we blowing this out of proportion. I understand the world and New York is full of good MD’s and medical staff. But as the saying goes "One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Bunch" pls give your thoughts,ideas or opinions.
(By expressed and expedient permission I am posting the conversation of a friend and the anxiety they had to endure when they went in for a routine Doctor’s appointment. It is in three parts. Please add your thoughts). Part #1
I wish you would. The way I was questioned…it was like an interrogation…I am not a hypochondriac by any means. I asked the doctor if it was normal to look like ‘ET’ with my left side bulging out, and to have this awful drainage coming out from my middle. I told him, frankly, that I did not appreciate the fact that (because of the drainage), I am the only guy in the universe who has to purchase MAXI PADS. My wiife changes my dressings and covers it up with a maxi pad every night.
I was not, I repeat, not ‘mildly abusing the system.’ Not by any means. I hate to be so gross in describing my medical condition, but that’s the way it is. And, now they tell me I have my 4th hernia! Wonderful! (According to the Cat-Scan taken yesterday).
If you clip manufacturers’ discount coupons, send any MAXI PAD coupons to me. I’m not kidding
Part #2:I’ve got the name of the doctor…his last name was Nowack at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, NY. The nurse who attended me was a Kyle Irish. When I asked to use a phone to call my wife (who was up waiting to hear about me), he declined my offer. I later found out that there was a phone in my emergency room cubicle, and I could have used it.
So, that was a old faced lie.
It still irks me to no end — that remark by Dr. Nowack. I was NOT, repeat NOT ‘mildly abusing the system.’ If you were suffering, like I have with these problems, and getting no where fast, being bounced around like a ping pong ball from one surgeon to another, and your pain was the equivalent of someone in labor (that’s how my wife describes it!), you’d seek medical attention in an ER, regardless of whether it was 3am or 3pm.
Because of this ongoing problem…I have no quality of life whatsoever. Would you like to go out with the constant fear of your pants falling down due to your bulge? That’s what I am living with on a daily basis. I am unable to work.
Sorry to be sprouting off…but that’s what’s happening
Part #3:I went to the Phelps ER last night at 3am. My bulge was getting increasingly painful, not to mention the drainage from my middle. I explained my detailed surgical history to the attending ER physician. Do you know what he had the nerve to say? He accused me of
‘mildly abusing the system’ by coming there at 3am.
He was interrogating me, as if he were Perry Mason, and me, in the witness stand. "Why did you come to the ER at 3am?"
I think you will agree with me, I am not ‘mildly abusing the system.’
The latest Cat-Scan showed…my 4th hernia, resting on my intestine
(This is enough to give you the chills and it could happen to any of us rich,middleclass or below middleclass) Please give me your thoughts for my friend or "con" and contact this hospital also this is a travesty.
yes, they do.
FOX News is the best | Aug 23, 2009
No not anymore then all patients are hypochondriacs
Not I | Aug 15, 2009
noo all my docters are cool and everything
baller33 | Aug 15, 2009
:) 
