Victor
Senior Member
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- midwest USA
If he was a jerk or rude before he became a doctor, chances are he still is. He didn't change. Often personality doesn't change with a new profession.
Has the nature of doctors changed recently?
- Thread starter In The Sticks
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If he was a jerk or rude before he became a doctor, chances are he still is. He didn't change. Often personality doesn't change with a new profession.
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
- Location
- Los Angeles Suburbs
I've had good docs and not-so-good docs over the years. Whether I stumble on a good or bad one seems more the luck of the draw than a trend.
If I don't like a doctor, dentist, plumber, contractor, grocery store, whatever, I ease on down the road and do business elsewhere.
That's the beauty of living in an area with lots of options.
If I don't like a doctor, dentist, plumber, contractor, grocery store, whatever, I ease on down the road and do business elsewhere.
That's the beauty of living in an area with lots of options.
In my clinic's waiting rooms, there are signs posted for patients: "Please, one issue per visit".
However, my doctor asks me all sorts of questions unrelated to what I'm seeing her for. She's very thorough and never rushes patients .. maybe why she's usually behind, but, I don't mind.
In The Sticks
Friend of Frank
I think a few things about that:
1-You're absolutely right.
2-The pressures of the industry make it impossible for them to practice the type of medicine they envisioned. It's not what they signed up for, and the real problem is the environment...not the person.
3-They took all that schooling, spent all that education money and deferred all those years of earning potential only to discover that they really don't like being a doctor!
Regardless of which it is, they're now stuck. There's little else they can do with their education and training, they got school loans to pay off, and they're way behind their peers in starting their careers/earning money.
JaniceM
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- Location
- still lost between two shores..
One change I've noticed: in the past, doctors seemed to actually care about their patients. And so did their nurses and others on-staff.
MarciKS
SF VIP
- Location
- Great Plains
Same here but, mine always lets me attack more than one problem. I think it's cuz I don't dawdle.
Aneeda72
Well-known Member
I notice that doctors are actually less inclined to physically touch their patients. (This was way before the virus.) How can they tell if your legs are swollen if they don’t touch them?
GeorgiaXplant
Well-known Member
- Location
- Georgia
My insurance is through Kaiser-Permanente. I've been with them for 10 years and have had the same PCP since the beginning. I think I met my cardiologist when I was in the hospital last year, but don't remember her. I see the NP who's quite competent and very personable. The ophthalmologist and the ophthalmologist who specializes in eye surgery are very nice and very thorough. I can't complain.
In The Sticks
Friend of Frank
The doctor I had for so long (and who retired in 2015) used to push down hard and slide up on my abdomen as part of my annual physical. He said it was to see if my organs had shifted. He'd squeeze my ankles. He thumped my back as he listened through his stethoscope. My physical was thorough.
The current guy is nothing like that. It's a 5 minute affair.
It stinks when you don't think you're getting proper care. You have no answers, which is what you go in for. Your mind is not put at ease.
yes in the good old days,he would pull down your lower eyelid, then have a look at your tongue, then feel your finger nails for ridges, then say hello, hows your mother, ect
JaniceM
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- still lost between two shores..
I really liked our long-time family physician. One example: I don't know whether it was his personal preference, or to put patients who were afraid of doctors at ease, but he never wore those traditional white uniforms; instead, he always wore golfing-style slacks and bright Hawaiian-print shirts!
Not long ago I found he passed away recently- in his long career, he helped and cared for many, many people!
Not long ago I found he passed away recently- in his long career, he helped and cared for many, many people!
fmdog44
Well-known Member
- Location
- Houston, Texas
A lot of medial professional are struggling financially. We think of them as rich but the stories of them having to cut back like many others are being talked about daily.
In The Sticks
Friend of Frank
Yeh, I've wondered about this.
Insurance companies sure put the squeeze on them, and Medicare/Medicaid ain't no better.
When I first moved here in 2010 I went to a practice locally owned by the doctors who worked there. At some point the regional conglomerate bought them out. My GP now works a flex-schedule (3 days a week, I believe.) So he gets that upside, but I have no idea what they've capped his salary at.
I find that I‘m fortunate to be able to keep the same doctor for more than two or three years even going to the same practice as they tend to leave seeking greener pastures in terms of money or location. In my younger years, there were still a lot of docs who were independent practitioners whereas now they are part of a conglomerate that’s often in time swallowed up by a bigger conglomerate. These overlords usually dictate their use of time as well as how they are to practice medicine, and patients can be shortchanged as the docs are micromanaged.
Anyways, starting out with a new doc, they tend to be frosty, and I’m usually my health conditions rather than a complete person. After several visits they remember me, and the relationship warms. By the time that we’ve gotten really comfortable with one another as human beings, they move on and I’m back to square one again...
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Anyways, starting out with a new doc, they tend to be frosty, and I’m usually my health conditions rather than a complete person. After several visits they remember me, and the relationship warms. By the time that we’ve gotten really comfortable with one another as human beings, they move on and I’m back to square one again...
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Em in Ohio
Senior Member
- Location
- OH HI OH
It had been so long since I had any need for a doctor, my physician of over 25 years dropped me. I found an economical clinic in which I see a Nurse Practitioner - and have no regrets! She is an angel who spends as much time as I want listening to me prattle and is willing to accept the fact that I'm not interested in taking meds for every conceivable ailment that I might have. I get the tests that I want, the treatments that I want - and am respected when I decline to have any further tests or treatments done.
Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
I had a phone conversation with my Husbands eye Doctor today. My Husband has been seeing him for 3 years because he has Macular Degeneration. He has had fluid drained out 3 times and he needs to go again next week. The Doctor told him he wants to use a different drug to inject. I read about the drug and didn't like what I saw. So I called the Doctor and he said the Drug company for the new drug was charging less then the other Drug Company charged. I told him since our insurance covers some of the cost I don't mind in the least paying the difference because it is better for his condition. I can't understand what the cost of the medicine has to do with the Doctor.
fmdog44
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- Location
- Houston, Texas
My doctor called today to cancel a bloodwork test this Tuesday and a complete physical two weeks after. Then they called me and sked if I wanted to reschedule. I said why should I reschedule, you are the ones that will decide when you will see patients! She replied, "We will call you when you want to reschedule."...…………………………..OK!