Doctors don't want to see sick people

All the above, every chapter and verse same here.
And drs are leaving the state for more money and better working conditions, e,g,. away from our paralyzing crime wave.

And left with providers with less Education and experience. The one doing blood pressures might have just finished 6 week at community college: good intentions but no experience.

I just canā€™t get it to sink in that here I am, made it to this very old age via good health care (and genes) and now might not get it any more when I need it.
 

debodun said:
In fact on my doctor's office door is a sign reading, "If you're feeling sick, please go to a hospital or emergency room, or call 911." What's the point of a doctor that won't see sick people?

Hospitals are also seem to be limiting admissions.
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Ha! Same thing here. When I want to make an appointment with my doctor, I hear the same stupid thing at his end of the line, "if you are sick, go to the hospital or emergency room." Very nice advice especially when folks that go to the hospital spend hours and hours waiting; sometimes a full day. Makes me wonder why in the world do we have doctors who don't want to see their patients? Must be a new generation thing? Perhaps they are too busy playing games on their smartphones? LOL
 
For the greatest part, the majority of health care workers and especially doctors are heroes. For those wealthy that can pay for top service, there are always going to be enthusiastic incorporated doctor groups ready to administer to their every whim. For those many in mass public health systems, hit and miss. I've had 2 most excellent women doctors at kp now for the last dozen years and find kp's vast local infrastructure of technical equipment and skills easy to navigate and make good use of.

Suspect some experienced physicians never expected to be in the vulnerable health position they found themselves in during the early pandemic of unknown lethality when their profession was roundly expected across the public to do their duty regardless of hours administering care. And regardless of where their primary specialty had brought them to up to that point of their lucrative financially and security wise place in society. Over time, some may have grown to dislike it so much they found ways to structure their services that discouraged contact or excessive work. Others may have also become entrenched in lower grades of physicians working for public hospitals where their potential wealth is crimped and there are always an unlimited supply of patients the pandemic situation amplified they are putting distance from lest they burn out.
 

No problem, I do not want to see them, sometimes wonder if it has to do with ines type of insurance, .Not on medicare and wonder if that is why they keep pressuring...
 
Packerjohn said:
Ha! Same thing here. When I want to make an appointment with my doctor, I hear the same stupid thing at his end of the line, "if you are sick, go to the hospital or emergency room." Very nice advice especially when folks that go to the hospital spend hours and hours waiting; sometimes a full day. Makes me wonder why in the world do we have doctors who don't want to see their patients? Must be a new generation thing? Perhaps they are too busy playing games on their smartphones? LOL
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The married ones are busy studying anatomy - with nurses.
 
Nathan said:
Out veterinarian has a similar sign: "do not bring your animal if it is throwing up, sneezing or has diarrhea" ??? People don't go to the doctor's office or veterinarian just for a social visit....šŸ˜’
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That's a new one. I never heard of a Veterinarian not accepting to see a sick animal. I wonder what he thinks his or her job is?

I will never have much good to say about emergency rooms for people. I have spent time in one twice during my life and would rather just stay home and suffer with whatever is the matter with me until my doctor can see me. I knew a person that told me he had to wait 7 hours to see the doctor in the emergency room. What do they think the word "Emergency" means?
 
We had a (quack) doctor in AZ that was the pits. The receptionist was the rudest person around, the floors in the waiting area were dirty and so were the rooms. He must have been the cheapest "doctor" in town because the only thing in the exam rooms were a cot, a small desk, and a chair. His "nurse" could never find my BP so he always had to do it. He catered to elderly patients and several times when I'd go in for an appointment, people were hacking and coughing and the 2 small waiting rooms were full. The last time I was there was the last time I was there. I stood waiting for over half an hour because I didn't want to get near any of those hacking people. I walked out and never went back. We found a real doctor after that. The thing is...that was at least 4 years ago and this quack is still renewing my Rx's.
 
I've felt that way about some local doctors. My mom used to go to one and it was always SRO in the waiting room. Two and a half hour wait in the outer area and another 2 in the exam room while he chatted with pharmaceutical reps. The receptionist was also rude.

One time I took mom, I stood at the window for a few minutes and no one acknowledged me. I gently tapped on the sliding glass window to get her attention. Well I did...she slammed the window open and yelled, "Don't you EVER bang on the window like that again!" Bang? I just tapped it lightly.

Once when I went, after waiting several hours, and aide came out to announce that the doctor had left for the day. Anyone that wanted to reschedule should come to the reception window. There was a stampede. We soon stopped going there, but the new doctor was hardly any better.

One time when were were there, his wife brought in their son that scraped his knee while playing. You'd think a world disaster had occurred. He forgot about the other patients as he attended to the child. It was an injury that could have waited. A scraped knee. WOW. If I had one when I was a kid, my mom would have sprayed some Bactine and put a bandaid on it, and kicked me back outdoors.
 
What I find slightly annoying is when you go t a doctor and they ask you a question you obviously can't answer, like, "Why is your eye so red?"
I'm like, "Gee, I was hoping you could tell me."
 

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