So yesterday I caught babybug digging in her ears and she was running a 100.2 fever, she's also been waking up a lot in the night, I just figured it was because shes still adjusting to BD being gone, but when I saw the ear digging I knew.
So I called the Dr this morning and got an appt, fabulous. I LOVE the girls Dr, he's so nice, respectful, knows his stuff, and generally a good guy *If you're looking for a Dr in the Ft. Hood area, gimmie a holler*
Soo we get there and this other Dr walks in, doesn't even introduce himself and then it starts:
Dr: sooo you think she has an ear infection..why?
Me: shes digging in her ears, had a temp of 100.2, isnt sleeping well
Dr: well she doesnt have a fever now, and she looks fine, plus 100.2 can be a perfectly normal temperature
Me: she doesnt have a fever bc I gave her tylanol, you can never tell my kids are sick by just looking at them, and I've NEVER heard of 100.2 being a 'normal temp'
sooo he asks me to lay her on the table and tells me to hold her arms down, so fine, I take her hands and hold them down, I know that babybug is meek enough where if I held her hands she wouldn't move her arm, But Mr. DR TSK's me and says "Hold her ARMS" and proceeds to grab my hand and place it where -he- wants it. So, I move my hand back down to her hands. I'm trying to be nice, bc I need meds for my baby so I don't snap at him then he checks her ears and says:
wow.......well, she does have a double ear infection. and is completely shocked that I am, in fact, correct. *imagine that*
then he proceeds to say:
Has she had an ear infection recently?
me: no, this is her first
Dr: wow...you're a good guesser
me: i know my kid
soo he puts in an RX for her and he says "oh ya, did I ever tell you my name"
me: No, in fact you never did
so he proceeds too and then says "well, byebye now"
so I start to grab the kids, purse, diaperbag and as I'm doing so Mr. Dr proceeds to once again say "oookay, byebye now"
any mother of a child knows hwo difficult it is to get 2 kids walking out the door, plus a purse, plus a diaperbag
and once again I hear "okay, byebye now!" *yes...3 times*
So I go to the pharmacy, taking my time bc I know it takes a bit, get there 30 minutes later only to find out Mr. Dr put the RX in for a different DATE!! so they didnt even have it ready. I finally told the lady "look I dont know why the Dr did that, but I need my baby's meds, she's sick!" Luckily the Pharmacy Tech was very helpful and got it ready as soon as she could, although I did have to wait 20 minutes with a cranky baby and disobedient toddler. But the important thing was that my baby got her medicine.
WHY must Drs be so condesending? especially when I'm RIGHT! i may be young and don't have a Dr degree but I'm NOT an idiot, So I dont expect to be treated like one.
Needless to say I will NOT be seeing that Dr again!
1 comment:
Oh girl!! You let them have it!! I'm getting more and more fed up with doctors the more I have to go see them. I went to four different doctors, and one three different times before he finally did a freakin' blood test that finally came back with a diagnosis...celiac disease! For YEARS I suffered with this and for YEARS I was told I was crazy. The first dr--who was my dr. since birth--actually told me I was DEPRESSED.
Then there was the time that I was questioned like BTK at the eye doctor's office. My boyfriend (now, husband) and mom were sitting there in disbelief at how he was treating me. He would ask a ?, and I was would nod my head or say "uh-huh" and he would look me dead in the eyes and say, "YES OR NO!!" Then he asked why I was there (he was a specialist) and I said I was referred because I had a herniation of the eye..then he yelled at me and asked how I knew that. I said the lady that referred me to him diagnosed it as such. He asked me if I knew was that was, blah, blah blah...and I kept saying, "no, I'm not the doctor, I would just like for my eye to quit bleeding". Long story short, I finally broke down in hysterical tears like a baby and that's when he starting thinking "oh crap, what have I done". He said, "I must have been a lawyer in another life". I said, sir, I have worked around lawyers for years and I have never found any of them to be the asshole that you are being today."
Then I wrote a damn long letter to Dr. Grene of Grene Vision Group and informed him of the problem with the guy.
I got quite the butt-kissing letter back and it was SOOO funny, because they thought I was going to sue them! They thought I still worked for the lawyers in Hutch, but I didn't (and I even told them I didn't) so you could tell they were covering their butts!!
Anyways, point being--STAND YOUR GROUND! I'm so tired of the "doctors" these days. It's so annoying that one has to come in with their own diagnosis when they go to the dr. How INSANE that he was questioning you BEFORE he even looked in her ears.
I think you should have looked him in the eye, said, "I told you so--are you ready to apologize" and walked out!! :)
YOU GO GIRL!!
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