I changed my doctor because...

I wish I could contribute somehow but I have never changed my doctor because we were lucky enough to consult a good doctor with clean reputation.

Originally posted by: Chitrashi

I'm sure all of us have at some point or other changed our regular doctors. This is a fun thread where we can all share the reason that made us change our doctor/s. I'll start the ball rolling on the first anecdote.

I am very critical of doctors who treat me and have been so since my teens. My first rejection of a doctor came when I realized that he was giving the same medication to all patients irrespective of their ailment - be it an upset stomach, fever, cold or whatever.

He would handover a set of pills to be taken thrice a day - a blue pill, a small white pill, a pink one and a yellow one. No names on the pills, nothing. They were all packed in these small paper envelops that could hold 5 pills max and we had to take as many envelops as the doses recommended by the doctor.

Then while sitting in his waiting room I heard him tell someone that he had taken 8 years to complete his MBBS. I was 12 then, to this day I haven't stepped in his clinic.

have other stories, but would like to hear from you all about your experiences.

We have a very famous doc in our colony...when I was in school...my dad had some health issues...since he was one of the most renound doc of our city my parents went to him.
He prescribed large number of tests for my dad and really scared my parents.
When my parents went to the pathalogy lab...the lab guy asked where is the patient...my mom poited out at my dad...
He asked how did u come here...,my dad answered..I drove.
The lab guy started laughing he said if u had these condition U would have come on a stretcher not drove here.😆😆
My parents went to another don for a 2nd openion and it turned my dad just had minor prob which needed some antibiotics.We never went to tht famous doc again...

hmm... except to a dentist, I haven't been to a doc much... so don't really have a family doc or regular doc, but v do have a regular clinic...

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though 3 yrs back on our trip to india...after a complete test package my parents had got done in a hospital near our home... my mother's report diagnosed appendicitis... v consulted a doc... were suggested an operation to b done... an appendix operation normally takes 2-3 hrs... my mom was in the OT for 7-8 hrs... with the docs giving us no details whatsoever... after that when they brought her out she was unconscious for another 7-8hrs and they told us it's pretty normal... when she regained her consciousness the doctor admitted he had got scared and now all is well...
then in the morning a nurse got a tray full of medicines, injections, oxygen mask n stuff saying it's all ours n covered in the bill v had already payed... she literally stuffed the lil bedside draw fully! then in the night mom was woken up by a sound of the draw being closed n she saw a ward-boy rush out of the room... she didn't have the strength to do anything at that moment... then in the morning v noticed half the draw empty!! when mentioned to the doc instead of saying he will look into the matter he just dismissed it casually and when mentioned to the nurse she was like what r u saying ma'am I bought only this much stuff... anyhow v didn't do much abt that as v were like what use wud have all that stuff been to us anyway?! so v let go of it...

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then after about 2 weeks, I had this abdominal pain... and v went to the same hosp. n the receptionist got me an appointment for a gynac... I was told to get an abdominal sonography done and seeing the reports (by that time the pain was no more) she said I have stones in my ovaries and if an operation is not done ASAP it will harm the ovaries which will result in me losing the ability to conceive... being 21 (that time) n unmarried, one can imagine the stress that info had on my mother...

me being in a relationship discussed the matter with my guy and v both were fine with no kids part... so I told my mom I really don't want to go under the knife... n it's okay... but mom being mom and her worries... my dad suggested v get a second opinion...

at the other gynac's... the same test was carried out, all she did was prescribe birth-control pills for a month... explaining the pills destroy the egg in the ovary hence avoiding pregnancy and will work in a similar manner to destroy the tiny stones... and no the case wasn't that severe at all!!

v again let the matter with the previous hospital slip... as all was well and v didn't have the time.

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back home in dubai... a year later, time for the tests to b carried out again... v were SHOCKED with my mothers report... her appendix was pretty much happily comfortably still in her body and her gall bladder was missing!!

v showed the indian reports to a doc and he was pretty amazed... though he was 100% sure with his reports, just for us he had the test done again free of cost and the same results came...

that ^%{{%*+} doc in india had removed the gall bladder instead of the appendix!! how irresponsible is that??!!

anyway the doc in dubai said it's nothing to worry about... with my mother's age... the missing gall bladder isn't really a problem and no problem with the appendix too...

and with the same now that all is well attitude my dad was like let it go... mom is fine so no worries... even if v thought what about other people, my dad was like our life is here in dubai, v can't afford the time it will take in india if v complain.

n v let it slip once again...

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needless to say whenever in india v have never stepped into that "nearby hospital" ever again!

My story is of doctors in US. I had severe digestive issue and the doctors kept giving me maintenance medicine and not for healing. I changed the doctor and he just increased the dosage. I couldn't bear the pain and all other symptoms and came back to India. Initially I didn't find a good doctor then by some miracle a doctor at apollo studied my case properly and prescribed me the correct medicine. With just the first pill I started feeling better. The same medicine is also used in US. But its again the commission thing also over there that they prescribe some medicines over other.

So in short due to the commission given by pharma's to the doctors, they prescribe a medicine which is less effective over a really good one which can save a patients life.

Paying commission to doctors should be made a crime as it is a bribery.

So this is a worldwide thing and not only in India. It is said that Finding a good dentist in US is a blessing :-)