Thanks, Jess
don't know if this is any help, but i understand and empathize what you are
going through.
rob.
Sorry you are having such a time, dear! You need a second opinion from
a shoulder surgeon who wasn't involved in your surgery. The doctor(s)
involved might have made a mistake during surgery or the physical
therapy that followed. With malpractice being such a big deal today,
the doctor isn't going to want you to check this out with anyone else.
Do it nicely, but do it anyway, to rule out complications from the
surgery.
If a second orthopedic doctor who specializes in shoulders can't figure
out why you still hurt, there are a number of conditions associated with
CFS that could be causing your pain and should be considered. First,
find yourself a rheumatologist who will help you explore the problem.
A good rheumatologist knows all about auto-immunity and joint health.
Conditions you may need to rule out include chronic tendonitis,
fibromyalgia, and arthritis (joint surgery may have required the removal
of damaged cartilage, which can cause severe pain and, later, arthritis;
ask your current doc if he had to remove any cartilage).
Last thing I can think of to check for, and it's a long shot, would be
"frozen shoulder". If you can't move your arm because of the pain
you're in, it is possible you have a frozen shoulder and need
specialized physical therapy, but I think (at least *hope*) that your
current doctor would have picked up on such a condition right away.
Gentle, healing hugs,
Wendy
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"Jessica Pillsbury" wrote in message
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I can relate to your shoulder pain, as I have 'frozen shoulder'. I think
it's also called adhesive capsulitis. My dr. told me that it's often an
autoimmune reaction. The pain was unbearable the first month and I had to
sleep in a recliner because I couldn't bear any pressure on it. I chose
massage therapy for treatment because I don't do well with physio. I've had
it for 7 months now and the pain is diminishing and my range of motion is
slowly starting to improve. Something else that helped with the deep ache
was Traumeel. It's a homeopathic cream that I rub in the shoulder area
twice a day. No smell to offend and very gentle. I'm sorry you're going
through this.
Mary Anne
:)
Christine
I may be totally off the wall.....or my doctor is....but has anyone ever heard of a parasite verses CFS??
My doctor is checking me for Parasites.......have been sick since last fall.....nausea, diareha, dizzy...weak....fatiigued, anxiety attacks and just an over all flu feeling. Also vision problems.
Please let me know what you think.
Hope you all have a great weekend with energy and a feeling of wellness.
Laurie
:)
Christine
Jess,
Mary Anne
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Hi Laurie. I have the same symptoms plus intermittent fever, swollen
glands and a few others but all of my docs at the time I was diagnosed went
with CFS. I've been checked for parasites (stool samples) a few dozen
times and nothing ever showed up. But that doesn't mean they won't find
something with you and be able to take care of it. Let us know how it
goes. Take care.
Vicki
Parasites can often be a problem in CFS. How is your doctor testing you?
Unfortunately most stool tests I understand are very unreliable for detecting
parasites. If he thinks you are at high risk for parasites, he should treat
you anyway to be sure. My gp has two patients currently with CFS symptoms who
he is treating with flagyl. If it works, he may do the same on me as I got
sick in Japan 7 months ago.
Good luck. Keep us posted on how it goes for you.
Monique
>===== Original Message From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome discussion CFIDS/ME
<CF...@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> =====
Thank you for your reply, I also have swollen glands, periodic sore throats and periods of low grade fevers.....geez.....What will it take for a Dr. To totally diagnose this for me?? I have been off work for only 4 weeks and cannot imagine the way I feel going back to work at this point.
How frustrating.....but.....I guess I will do anything the docs want me to try and FINALLY feel better.
Thanks again,
Laurie
---------------------------------
Thank you for your response, He is testing me my stool samples.......and i have a colonoscopy scheduled for the 3rd of July.
Would not it be great if he did find parasite and I did not after all have CFS???? !!! then they could treat me and then I would finally feel good again???
Am I now off the wall?? If I am it is a dream worth thinking about.
Hope you are doing okay.
Laurie
msauve <msa...@ualberta.ca> wrote:
Hi Laurie
Parasites can often be a problem in CFS. How is your doctor testing you?
Unfortunately most stool tests I understand are very unreliable for detecting
parasites. If he thinks you are at high risk for parasites, he should treat
you anyway to be sure. My gp has two patients currently with CFS symptoms who
he is treating with flagyl. If it works, he may do the same on me as I got
sick in Japan 7 months ago.
Good luck. Keep us posted on how it goes for you.
Monique
>===== Original Message From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome discussion CFIDS/ME
=====
>Hello all,
>
>I may be totally off the wall.....or my doctor is....but has anyone ever
heard of a parasite verses CFS??
>
>My doctor is checking me for Parasites.......have been sick since last
fall.....nausea, diareha, dizzy...weak....fatiigued, anxiety attacks and just
an over all flu feeling. Also vision problems.
>
>Please let me know what you think.
>
>Hope you all have a great weekend with energy and a feeling of wellness.
>
>Laurie
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Thank you for writing to me. I would love to read the paper on this if you find it. If not, thank you for thinking of me anyways.
I hope all here has a bright sunny shiny day without symptoms of our wonderful conditions!!!
Hugs,
Laurie
---------------------------------
Take care
Monique
Seems kinda bizarre now, but when I tested positive for Hep C in 1998, after
being dx'd with CFS in 1992, I was actually thrilled! Finally! I had
something legitimate.
So yes, I can understand how you feel.
Pat
I am writing to tell you of my experience yesterday with a neurologist that I had looked so forward to seeing and was set up by my family Doctor.
I went to him in great hopes of him helping me. I took my list of symptoms and all the meds that I have been taking. I had been to him one time before for Guillan Barre and just knew that he was going to be able to help me.
WRONG!!! He could have cared less what my list of symptoms were, or what meds I was on, had me do a couple of short physical acts....( finger to nose, walking heel to toe etc.,) and said that he had gotten reports from my Doctor and that there was really nothing that he could do for me. I was trembling from being so weak yesterday. It was a bad day for me and I explained to him that.
Well.....guess what he told me?? He ask me if I consumed alcohol ( why would he ask me that and what gave him the idea?) and I said now and then I had a couple but only at night to sleep. He told me that all of this could be from alcohol !!!! I have had nothing to drink since Saturday and that was coffee with Hazlenut!!!
And before that....it was the last Saturday with the same drink.
I was so insulted and hurt, he totally blew me off and told me that I may think about some counciling for stress....( I am not stressed other than I want so much to feel better !!!) and exercise, gave me a script for sleeping pills, put me on a higher dose of Welbutrin and off two more weeks. Said that there was nothing he could do for me!!
I was thinking.....I remember when I worked 12.5 hours a day that I had told my family Doctor that one time.....my work was so stressful that at night sometimes after my long day at work ( Corrections Officer) that I had a couple of drinks to sleep......well for goodness sakes, that was a long time ago......certainly not while I have not been working.....and certainly not everynight and certainly not needing it!!! I also had told my family Doctor that if I did not have 1-2 drinks that I would take a sleeping aid instead.
I told the neurologist yesterday that I was insulted, I could not stand alcoholics and drunks and that my last marriage ended due to his alcoholism, but he would not listen to me. It is like my family doctor talked to him and told him what he thought about me and that is their diagnosis. Like I am a alcoholic sick girl that does not want to work anymore!!!???
I cannot sleep over this. I am so upset. I am going to call my family doctor today and tell his nurse what a big fat joke that appointment was, due to whatever he told the neurologist. I am also going to make sure that she knows to tell my doctor that he needs to get off of the alcohol thing. Geezzzzz.....I cannot believe, that he actually thought the reason that I was trembling was due to alcohol. I was so weak yesterday, headache and had terrible vision problems,,,,,,how in the world would my one coffee and hazelnut from saturday afternoon have anything to do with that???
I am so hurt and so lost. I am convicted apparently by my doctors now that I am an alcoholic, only because when I worked those hours a while back that I would have 1-2 drinks at night sometimes to slow down and relax.
With CFS....we are dizzy and weak enough. We get headaches enough, we feel icky enough without having to have alcohol to make us feel worse.......why won't they listen??
Why would we want to drink and be drunk and feel worse than we already do???
I need to get over this...can anyone give me a piece of advice??? I only slept 4 hours last night and woke up this AM angry and hurt of what happened yesterday.
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this......I am just so upset.
Laurie
Pat
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Thank you for writing to me.
I bet you were so upset taking all the time, gas and miles to be blown off in 4 minutes!
For me, hearing other peoples experiences makes mine look not so bad after all. Even tho I still am so upset and hurt.
I am planning on getting a new family Doctor. This was all so uncalled for. I am also planning to write the neurologist a letter and explain my feelings to him as I will not be seeing him again either!
Hot bath??..... I am headed there right now. Then maybe a nap after very little sleep last night.
Thank you again,
Laurie
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>For me, hearing other peoples experiences makes mine look not so bad after
>all. Even tho I still am so upset and hurt.
Well naturally. Jeez, the man invalidated your entire experience of
life-destroying disabling disease because he doesn't know diddley. There
are several terms for such people, none of them polite. And yours is
plenty bad, just unfortunately common. I'm glad you're changing family
docs, and hope you get a good lie down. I'm headed there too, this is the
fourth night this week for awful insomnia, I've at least been down prone
all the others, but couldn't face lying there for ten hours again -- the
travel always knocks my already screwy sleep all to the dickens. Overtired
= gross insomnia. Stupid senseless illness counter-intuitive! :) I need
my toes painted! best, Marnia
I can't remember if I told her, but 20 years ago, before CFS, I did "self-medicate" for depression and drank a lot more than I have since.
I suppose, at her discretion, she could have concluded that I'm an alcoholic in denial and probably drink more than I reported (although it wouldn't have been true) but to state as a fact that I drink more than I do, and to quote me as saying something I didn't . . . if only I had taken a witness or tape recorder, I wonder if that would come under "malpractice." That was very prejudicial and cost me a LOT of money.
Even at that, her conclusions listed "Intermittent Alcohol Abuse" 7th down on the list and below Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (that was 3rd).
In spite of that long list, she found me not disabled and cleared for full-time work, so they cut off my disability income. But that's a long story I told already with a relatively happy ending.
But, anyway, know you're not alone. I think so many doctors are so insecure about the lack of a definitive blood test for CFS that they'll grasp at any other diagnosis. Hmm. There's no definitive test for either "depression" or "alcoholism" either -- so why are they so eager to grab those diagnosis? Oh, I'll bet it's because they can pass those problems off to someone else. "Go see a shrink. Go to AA."
--Lisa
I did not hear your ending.....I would love to hear how you came out on things in your relatively happy ending that you stated.
Thank you for sharing with me your situation......it gripes me how we are treated by some doctors. And I also feel that they can pass us on by naming it alcoholism and or depression....no way to clearly diagnose those either......but then off we go to a shrink or AA.
Thanks Again,
Laurie
--Lisa
loddie_may2003 wrote:
wrote:
> >Would not it be great if he did find parasite and I did not after all have
> CFS???? !!! then they could treat me and then I would finally feel good
> again???
> >
> >Am I now off the wall?? If I am it is a dream worth thinking about.
>
> Seems kinda bizarre now, but when I tested positive for Hep C in 1998, after
> being dx'd with CFS in 1992, I was actually thrilled! Finally! I had
> something legitimate.
>
> So yes, I can understand how you feel.
>
> Pat
---------------------------------
Unfortunately, most of us have had an experience like yours. Sorry you had
to go through that. The first time is the worst!
Going to a doc like that is like going to a dentist for a heart attack. They
speak, with annoying confidence, from their knowledge......which is
nothing!! At least a dentist would call 911. Hopefully.
I was diagnosed in July, 1989 as having Epstein-Barr. I've never been to a
doc since for CFS. I used to be married to a doctor, and one thing I learned
from him was not to "bother" (his words, not mine!) a doctor when you had
something that couldn't be treated. Colds, viral illnesses, upset stomachs,
etc. He was a pediatrician and would tell me when to take the kids to the
doc, like if they might have a strep throat.
So I've done my own doctoring all these years, by talking to people on this
list and trying out dietsa and supplements that made sense to me. I had one
shouting match with a doc here that I went to see for a "frozen shoulder." I
mentioned I had CFS. He said he didn't believe in it. We got into an
argument. The loudest part went like this - him:"All you people ever want
is to come in here and get on disability!!"....me: "I'm not on disability
and I've never applied for it in my life!!" ....SILENCE ...(accompanied by
stunned look on his face hahaha)
He had me confused with a patient (someone I knew) who was coming in to have
him sign off on her disability forms. I went home and called my friend to
warn her. She took her husband with her to the appointment (he's a shrink)
and the doc signed the papers with no protest. Later, I learned the local
Womens' Center has a list of docs to avoid, and his name is on it for being
"demeaning to women." Even his advice about my frozen shoulder, which is
what I went to see him for, was wrong. I figured out a way to cure it by
myself - many painful weeks later.
Unless I travel across the country to see one of the well-known CFS experts
like Cheney or Bell, I assume total ignorance on the part of any doc I see.
I discount their opinions about CFS as much as I would my next-door
neighbors. There are docs out there who will admit their ignorance and
actually learn something about treating CFS, but they're hard to find. I
finally gave up and called that friend I mentioned earlier to ask if her
husband knew any decent shrinks in this area. From reading CFS-L, I wanted
to try a couple of meds, and I wanted a shink to prescribe them, not some GP
who didn't know about side effects. So now my only doc is a shrink 70 miles
away who prescribes my meds and thinks about things for me to try (which I
never do because his knowledge is so limited ;-) He's a child and adolescent
psychiatrist - now who would ever think to consult him about CFS? But he's
an interesting guy from South Africa, so we spend the 30 minute session
talking about stuff in general, not my illness.
People who are uninformed speak out of ignorance, and health professionals
in general classify you according to others they've seen before you. They
don't see you as an individual. I was a health professional before I got
sick, so I know that when they're seeing a new person, they don't look for
individuality, they look for signs and symptoms they're familiar with, so
that they can put the person into a category they're familiar with. That's
the job they're supposed to do, and if they lack knowledge, they can make
egregious errors.
Better luck next time!
Bethany
Thank you so much for your very interesting letter.
I am not sure who I would talk to if it weren't for this forum. I am still so ashamed, embarrassed and intimidated from yesterday. I tell my Mom everything but I cannot tell her about the Doc treating me as if I was an alcoholic.
I called my family Dr. today and talked to his nurse. She read me exactly what was sent to this neurologist. There was mention of alcohol but nothing that should have even been thought about for a second, as in "this patient drinks 1-2 alcoholic beverages a night sometimes". I am not sure why the neurologist treated me like he did, other than thinking about what you said about the Dr's not seeing me as an individual. She told me that she was going to tell the Dr. about it and see if he wanted to do anything else with me.
Still upset.....need to stop my whining and realize.....there is not alot of hope.
Thanks again,
Laurie
---------------------------------
My social life, career and financial prospects were cut off at what should have been the flower of my life, many doctors and most layman blame me for this, because of my weight, drinking or laziness, and I'm dependent for my subsistence on an arbitrary hand-out that I can lose at any moment. You're damn right I'm depressed! I'd be crazy if I weren't.
But, so far, they haven't sent me for another IME, and the continuing disability payments have allowed me to get my taxes and debts paid off, so I'm better off than most people who haven't been able to work for 15 years.
To paraphrase the ending of a favorite short story of mine, that's as happy an ending as could be expected with CFS.
--Lisa
>Laurie
>
>Lisa <lisa...@uci.net> wrote:
>The last time they sent me for an Independent Medical Exam, she asked me
>about my alcohol use (which I admit is more than is good for me) and in
>her report, exaggerated every specific I gave her. I said, 2-6 beers once
>or twice a week, never before 3pm, and never in my life have I had even
>one drink every day for longer than two weeks, became "Some weeks she
>drinks 6 to 8 beers from noon until 3 pm for 2-3 weeks in a row (it helps
>her sleep) but then she stops abruptly reasoning that "I cannot be an
>alcoholic as I can quit so easily." " I never said anything like that.
>It's the stereotypical "I can quit anytime I want to" of the alcoholic in
>denial.(snip)
>I suppose, at her discretion, she could have concluded that I'm an
>alcoholic in denial and probably drink more than I reported (although it
>wouldn't have been true) but to state as a fact that I drink more than I
>do, and to quote me as saying something I didn't . . . if only I had taken
>a witness or tape recorder, I wonder if that would come under
>"malpractice." That was very prejudicial and cost me a LOT of money.
>
>Even at that, her conclusions listed "Intermittent Alcohol Abuse" 7th down
>on the list and below Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (that was 3rd).7th down on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Co-Cure/message/4735
Ideal versus reality: physicians perspectives on patients with chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia.
<snip>
Different strategies are developed to handle the encounters with these
patients. The results also illuminate the physician's interpretations of
patients in moralising terms. Conditions given the status of illness were
regarded, for example, as less serious by the physicians than those with
disease status. Scepticism was expressed regarding especially CFS, but
also fibromyalgia.
Moreover, it is shown how the patients are characterised by the
physicians as ambitious, active, illness focused, demanding and
medicalising. The patient groups in question do not always gain full
access to the sick-role, in part as a consequence of the conditions not
being defined as diseases.
..............
Sounds like some doctors I know ;-( I *think* we're making progress in
doctors taking CFS seriously, but it's certainly taking a long time....
Cath
It can be so dangerous for doctors to know anything at all potentially
negative about you. These docs knew I was struggling with mild depression,
and instantly concluded that was my total problem. But I needed help for
the depression - damned if you do and damned if you don't.
It hurts so much... it is such a betrayal of trust for that doctor to treat
you the way he did.
The good news is that, after a couple years of searching, I have assembled a
team of good doctors who not only 'believe in' CFS, but (except for my
primary care doc, who freely admits to not knowing much) are quite
knowledgeable about CFS. But it took a lot of looking, and the willingness
to ditch doctors who didn't measure up. And at the same time being
diplomatic, because I knew they would be contacted regarding SSDI and my
long term disability insurance claim, and I didn't want them PO'd at me.
{{{{hugs}}}}
Cath
I am so sorry that this happened to you. I had a similar experience a couple
of months ago. I was off work and they sent me to their gp and psychologist
b/c they said my docs had not come up with a diagnosis and I was apprachign
the end of my general illness benefits so if I continued to need to be off
work, I would need to file for disability. I had already been to three gps and
an internist and none could figure out was was worng with me. I have given
more blood in the last year than in all my 33 previous years combined!! :o)
Anyway the gp treated me horribly. I was so upset when I got home I cried and
screamed and could not sleep for a few nites. Thanks to my boyfriend who
calmed me down by telling me that the doc was the idiot and obviously did not
understnad CFS. After that expereince I called the ME Scoiety here and got
them to recommend a specialist. He is an internist and is great. He really
beleives in CFS and beleives that htere are ways to treat it - differnt for
everyone but we have to find a way that works for me. So now he is helpign me
to get the next 6 months off work by goign to 'rehab' consiting of yoga and
mild exercise for a couple of hours a day. He got me on meds to sleep and
mild exercise and my gp has me on a bunch of vits. My gp's wife had CFS for
several years so he is also very inderstanding. Two motnhs ago I could barely
take a shower. Now I am buying my own groceries, cookign for myself, seeign
friends gain, and even goignon for bike rides! :o) It took some work to find
these docs but don't give up there are some understandign ones out there. And
for the majority who don't seem to be so that we unfort. have to encounter,
don't let them get to you. If they could even walk a day in our shoes. Oh how
many times I wished that gp could. She told me I was just depressed and would
feel better if I went back to work. I was never depressed befroe I got sick.
Who's not goign to feel depressed not being able to do anythign they love and
having to ask for help all the time!?
Take care Laurie. My thoughts are with you,
Monique
>===== Original Message From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome discussion CFIDS/ME
<CF...@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> =====
>Patricia M <pcmo...@flash.net> wrote:
>>Would not it be great if he did find parasite and I did not after all have
>CFS???? !!! then they could treat me and then I would finally feel good
>again???
>>
>>Am I now off the wall?? If I am it is a dream worth thinking about.
>
>Seems kinda bizarre now, but when I tested positive for Hep C in 1998, after
>being dx'd with CFS in 1992, I was actually thrilled! Finally! I had
>something legitimate.
>
>So yes, I can understand how you feel.
>
>Pat
>
I am so happy for all of you that have found some competent doctors who know about CFS.
I wish that some of the uneducated quacks would just realize that if we felt good......we would want to go to work, we would want go and take care of things....we want to be normal......if we felt good!!! Like we all have just chosen to be feel like we have the flu and want to feel miserable each and everyday. Yeh..... I am so upset still...... we take our time and our money to go and get help......If I felt good, I would have rather gone shopping or out to luch or whatever. Why do they think that this is all our choice???
I am going to eat and eat to get these sleeping pills soaked up ......they are making me feel so weird.
Thank you again for writing to me. It really does help to hear others thoughts...
Laurie
{{{{hugs}}}}
Cath
---------------------------------
The neurologist that I saw prescribed me with a sleeping pill.....tonight I thought...okay, I will try this. The bottle said to take 1-2 pills even tho earlier I had read about it and people take it two times a day. I only took one and it has only caused me great problems tonight. Each time that I thought that I was falling asleep.....horrible thoughts would scare me into tossing and turning.....scarey thoughts.....my skin was crawling and still is. The name of it is Trasadone or Trasodone?? It is downstairs or I would read it for you.
So.....another sleepless night.
I did not think that I was that depressed, but if this keeps up....I am sure that things will only get worse.
I only hope and pray that I will go to sleep before long.....but I feel wide awake and weird all over.
I am going to look into finding another Dr. Tomorrow, that is if I can get out of bed. I am supposed to return to work on the 7th.......this also depresses me. I cannot imagine doing my job ( Corrections Officer) the way that I feel.
Thank you for your letter to me. Even tho I sound so down, the letters help me to feel a little better knowing that others have had some of these hard roads as well. I am sorry for all of us!!!
I want to and will not give up hope to beat this.......and try real hard not to let another Dr. beat me down. But there are those days......
Thank you again,
Laurie
you wrote:
>
> The neurologist that I saw prescribed me with a sleeping pill.....tonight
I thought...okay, I will try this. The bottle said to take 1-2 pills even
tho earlier I had read about it and people take it two times a day. I only
took one and it has only caused me great problems tonight. Each time that I
thought that I was falling asleep.....horrible thoughts would scare me into
tossing and turning.....scarey thoughts.....my skin was crawling and still
is. The name of it is Trasadone or Trasodone??
I take trazodone every night for sleep, but it doesn't work for everyone.
I've never heard of anyone taking it twice a day though for sleep. I've
taken it by mistake in the morning, and I can hardly stay awake for about 6
hours.
It's not a strong medication. It's actually an older anti-depressant that
fell out of favor because it did little to alleviate depression, plus had
the side effect of sleepiness. So docs started prescribing it as a very mild
sleeping pill, and giving the patient something else for depression.
I had the same kind of reaction you did only it was to doxepine, another old
anti-depressant that causes sleepiness. A lot of CFS patients take it for
sleep and swear by it.
You just never know what's going to work for you till you try it!! Such fun
getting those side effects. :(((
At least trazodone doesn't take long to wear off. I hope you get some sleep
soon!
Bethany
Laurie:
>thought that I was falling asleep.....horrible thoughts would scare me into
>tossing and turning.....scarey thoughts.....my skin was crawling and still
>is. The name of it is Trasadone or Trasodone??
>Bethany:
Hi all:}
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Kathy
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> I am not sure who I would talk to if it weren't for this forum. I am
> still so ashamed, embarrassed and intimidated from yesterday. I tell
> my Mom everything but I cannot tell her about the Doc treating me as
> if I was an alcoholic.
I was thinking about this yesterday, and decided that if this happened
to me I'd write to the (UK's) BMA. You could write to (is it?) the AMA
(or other doctors' professional groups). Or does your town/ county/
state have any patients' pressure groups, or even a local newspaper that
might be willing to print something - for all you know this doctor might
be treating many people badly (the Doc might even be ill!).
There should be some way of at least getting an apology.
--
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
How times have changed. Sigh. When my father died of colon cancer in 1972,
our family doctor wrote a letter of apology to my mother, saying that if he
had sent my father off for tests earlier, he would probably still be alive.
Can you even IMAGINE that happening today in our litigious world? Hopefully
there will be a swing back into a middle ground someday.
Bethany
I just wanted to write and tell everyone "thank you " for all your words of encouragement, your stories and your circumstances, your support and your time for replying to my message of all that I have been going thru.
I have taken all your thoughts into mind and started working on looking for another Dr. today. Also, realizing that he is and idiot for treating me that way. For heavens sakes,,,,I went to see him to feel better and left there feeling worse than ever. Shame on him.
Reading all the wonderful replys has helped me to feel so much better......
Thank you so much,
Laurie
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