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I've been "Let Go" from my family doctor (IRONY!!!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 305276" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I understand your not wanting to see this doctor again. As long as you can manage. Being without pain medications is unthinkable for me. What about seeing if you can get into a pain clinic? Probably a good idea anyway.</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking, this guy has had enough of the dramas and difficult choices he felt he had to make, between two patients. From his point of view he was stuck in a he said, she said scenario (even though a little brain effort would have helped him know which way to go) and so chose to fence-sit. And now wants Occupational Therapist (OT) be shot of anybody associated with the headaches it caused him (yes, I know it caused you a lot more than headaches - but I'm talking about HIS point of view, not yours. People like this can't think outside their own box).</p><p></p><p>When I mentioned apologies - there are ways to apologise, that can really kick home. I had a fight with a building inspector who was, I felt, being a bully and also trying to build up a bit of a corruption kickback thing through fear. I was rude to him (called him the "work experience boy") and as soon as I heard his response I knew he felt triumphant for having finally provoked me to a point where he could say I was in the wrong.</p><p></p><p>So I wrote a letter of apology to him and sent it to his boss. "I apologist for calling Mr X the work experience boy. I don't normally say tings like this, it was only after ten minutes of extremely frustrating conversation with him which had falsely led me to beleive I was only talking to someone very junior. He did not know to forward my call to someone more senior when I repeatedly requested him to do so, hence I mstakenly assumed he was a junior. However, that does not excuse me for calling him names and I do sincerely apologise."</p><p>Of course, I knew the mail would be opened by the boss's secretary. I akso knew that the secretaries would all be having lunch together (it's how Aussie office politics works) and so I knew I had just given the guy a very public nickname. But I DID apologise!</p><p></p><p>A doctor needs to keep hhis office staff; they protect the doctor from constant hassling by patients. Doctors require to be insulated from patients except during an actual consult. In a fight between a patient and a bossy office worker, the doctor will ALWAYS take the side of the office worker. Especially in a climate of patient overload. More patients can walk through the door any time. A new receptionist would be an unkown quantity and would require training. Also, the good ones are harder to find than patients.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, sometimes we have to put up with a lot of garbage from doctors, epseically when we have less power to pick and choose. Because specialists are even fewer and further between, we have to be prepared to put up with even more from them.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 305276, member: 1991"] I understand your not wanting to see this doctor again. As long as you can manage. Being without pain medications is unthinkable for me. What about seeing if you can get into a pain clinic? Probably a good idea anyway. I'm thinking, this guy has had enough of the dramas and difficult choices he felt he had to make, between two patients. From his point of view he was stuck in a he said, she said scenario (even though a little brain effort would have helped him know which way to go) and so chose to fence-sit. And now wants Occupational Therapist (OT) be shot of anybody associated with the headaches it caused him (yes, I know it caused you a lot more than headaches - but I'm talking about HIS point of view, not yours. People like this can't think outside their own box). When I mentioned apologies - there are ways to apologise, that can really kick home. I had a fight with a building inspector who was, I felt, being a bully and also trying to build up a bit of a corruption kickback thing through fear. I was rude to him (called him the "work experience boy") and as soon as I heard his response I knew he felt triumphant for having finally provoked me to a point where he could say I was in the wrong. So I wrote a letter of apology to him and sent it to his boss. "I apologist for calling Mr X the work experience boy. I don't normally say tings like this, it was only after ten minutes of extremely frustrating conversation with him which had falsely led me to beleive I was only talking to someone very junior. He did not know to forward my call to someone more senior when I repeatedly requested him to do so, hence I mstakenly assumed he was a junior. However, that does not excuse me for calling him names and I do sincerely apologise." Of course, I knew the mail would be opened by the boss's secretary. I akso knew that the secretaries would all be having lunch together (it's how Aussie office politics works) and so I knew I had just given the guy a very public nickname. But I DID apologise! A doctor needs to keep hhis office staff; they protect the doctor from constant hassling by patients. Doctors require to be insulated from patients except during an actual consult. In a fight between a patient and a bossy office worker, the doctor will ALWAYS take the side of the office worker. Especially in a climate of patient overload. More patients can walk through the door any time. A new receptionist would be an unkown quantity and would require training. Also, the good ones are harder to find than patients. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to put up with a lot of garbage from doctors, epseically when we have less power to pick and choose. Because specialists are even fewer and further between, we have to be prepared to put up with even more from them. Marg [/QUOTE]
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