Does Your Doctor Listen?
Do seniors get shortchanged when it comes to their doctor's care and attention? dLife columnist Ilene Raymond Rush explores the common disconnect between physicians and older patients. Do you need help communicating with your doctor about your diabetes? Check out these resources.
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- At 01:57 PM on Fri, Jun 6, 2008 rosemary wrote:
My docotr thinks I am made of money. I have medicare and do dot qualify in the state of nc for a supplement (not 62 yet) She insists on sending me to other doctors who tell me the exact same thing she does. I am living on ssi only so I get upset when she makes me appointments that I have to travel to other cities over an hour away. So I end up paying the deductable from the appointment plus transportation becaue I don't drive due to diabetic retinopathy. Why can't she understand that I'm not on medicaid just medicare???
- At 04:37 PM on Sun, Jun 1, 2008 wanda harper henry wrote:
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- At 03:28 PM on Sun, Jun 1, 2008 Tina wrote:
I had a recurent nose bleed that would increase in duration and flow week after week. the worsed happed while driving. Frighted and confused I saw my doctor. He scolded me not to bother him with nose bleeds untill I am unable to stop the bleeding. He never check my blood suger (he never ordered a glucosemeter for me), and never checked my blood presure. I fired him and went on to the next doctor (who said my sugar is high and also said I don't need a glucosemeter) I am begining to think doctors are trying to "thin out the heard" because of too many latins in Chicago and because I have a Spanish last name (I am legal, my family came over the Atlantic BEFORE Elis Island had been built. Thank you very much!)
I have more stories like this. Every Doctor I visit will turn their backs - phyisicaly, while you explain your symptoms. I simply stop talking 'till he turns around again.Thank you for letting me vent.
Yours truly,
Ms. T
When they do this
I told my doctor I was having alot of pain and numbness in my left outer thigh and hip. When I leave work at 1130 at night I could barely walk to my car. He said well lets get your blood sugars under control, then we'll worry about your pain. I was really shocked by this, seeings he was a sports doctor. I went to the clinic at work they sent me for xrays. then they sent me to a ortho consult who injected me with a shot said I had bursitis, immediately I was pain free after limping around for 5 months. Fortunately he left the practice and a new md has replaced him.