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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 353954" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Heather, LOTS of gentle hugs. I remember a few years back something similar happened to me at an Urgent Care. - story below, long, don't want to hijack so don't read if you don't want to!!!</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">BUT, filing the grievance was the BEST thing you could have done. Sometimes pain is a great motivator.</span> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I had an abscess in one of my front teeth (it was gross, every time I smiled... Well). Anyway, I also worked 3rd shift. Due to the pain of the abscess (and subsequent drainage), I had not slept in about 72 hours. My dentist was out of town and was scheduled to return on the next Monday. It was Friday afternoon when I showed up at the Urgent Care and asked them to take a look and could they please give me a scrip for <em><strong>antibiotics</strong></em>? (I figured between this and some ibuprofen maybe I could sleep...)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Doctor comes in, REFUSES TO LOOK, and gives me a LECTURE about how bad it is for me to be DOING DRUGS.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">WHAT?!</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Of course I was crying from the pain already, so that just made it worse.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Then to add insult to injury... He wanted to make me a deal with him. He would give me a scrip for Vicodin if I let the nurse give me a shot of penicillin to kill off my "infections". Err - he did not LOOK at my tooth - so any other infection(S) I had were his imagination. I was insulted, and told him so, but then told him I'd go for the penicillin shot (lots faster acting than pills!).</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">So the nurse comes in, gives me a shot in the rear. And a scrip for 60 (NO, that's not a typo) Vicodin.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Took the scrip out with me. While I was paying my copay, I saw the doctor walking by. I interrupted him in front of a bunch of nurses. Asked if he had really meant to write the scrip for 60. He said yes, obviously I was in pain - real sycophantic toward me now that he had an audience - and I looked him in the eye and said, "You just made a deal with the devil, Doctor." Ripped the scrip in two twice, and left. Filed a complaint the next Monday - to the hospital that ran the Urgent Care - and gave them the unused, ripped prescription.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Found out a few years later that he'd been making "deals" with junkies to clean them up... At least from infection. Guess he figured addiction wasn't quite so catching.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 353954, member: 6705"] [SIZE=3]Heather, LOTS of gentle hugs. I remember a few years back something similar happened to me at an Urgent Care. - story below, long, don't want to hijack so don't read if you don't want to!!![/SIZE] [SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]BUT, filing the grievance was the BEST thing you could have done. Sometimes pain is a great motivator.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]...[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I had an abscess in one of my front teeth (it was gross, every time I smiled... Well). Anyway, I also worked 3rd shift. Due to the pain of the abscess (and subsequent drainage), I had not slept in about 72 hours. My dentist was out of town and was scheduled to return on the next Monday. It was Friday afternoon when I showed up at the Urgent Care and asked them to take a look and could they please give me a scrip for [I][B]antibiotics[/B][/I]? (I figured between this and some ibuprofen maybe I could sleep...)[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Doctor comes in, REFUSES TO LOOK, and gives me a LECTURE about how bad it is for me to be DOING DRUGS.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]WHAT?![/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Of course I was crying from the pain already, so that just made it worse.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Then to add insult to injury... He wanted to make me a deal with him. He would give me a scrip for Vicodin if I let the nurse give me a shot of penicillin to kill off my "infections". Err - he did not LOOK at my tooth - so any other infection(S) I had were his imagination. I was insulted, and told him so, but then told him I'd go for the penicillin shot (lots faster acting than pills!).[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]So the nurse comes in, gives me a shot in the rear. And a scrip for 60 (NO, that's not a typo) Vicodin.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Took the scrip out with me. While I was paying my copay, I saw the doctor walking by. I interrupted him in front of a bunch of nurses. Asked if he had really meant to write the scrip for 60. He said yes, obviously I was in pain - real sycophantic toward me now that he had an audience - and I looked him in the eye and said, "You just made a deal with the devil, Doctor." Ripped the scrip in two twice, and left. Filed a complaint the next Monday - to the hospital that ran the Urgent Care - and gave them the unused, ripped prescription.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Found out a few years later that he'd been making "deals" with junkies to clean them up... At least from infection. Guess he figured addiction wasn't quite so catching.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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