Honestly, whenever I visit my doctor, she practically kicks me out the door no matter what I say. It feels like nothing I bring up is ever "serious" enough for her. I can't even get a basic referral without showing up five different times just to plead my case! I’ve been feeling quite poorly for a while now, but she just orders a blood test and tells me everything looks fine and to head home. She refuses to actually dig deeper. I even begged her to run a blood culture when I was dealing with those weird skin spots, chills, night sweats, and chest pains, but she just brushed me off with a dermatology referral—and they didn't help at all. Then there was the neck ultrasound; I spent a year and a half asking for that referral, yet she wouldn't even bother to physically palpate my swollen glands, neck, or thyroid to justify why I even needed it in the first place!
And to top it off, she tried to treat a severe sinus infection with nothing but some saline spray instead of prescribing antibiotics!
The first time I ever asked for a mammogram referral after turning 40, she actually had the nerve to ask, "Why do you need that? Isn't it a bit early for you to be getting a mammogram?" Can you believe that?
Most recently, after I had COVID, I went back a month later to discuss the lingering symptoms I was struggling with, and she told me I was too early for an appointment—that I should wait longer for my body to recover. But I'm sitting here feeling terrible! Honestly, I’m losing the motivation to even go anymore when I know I'll just be sent right back home.
