Migraine

Gretchen, what a wonderful reply!

I really like the dope-slap part, but even part your voice of reason. Writing the letter and sitting on it for 24 hours - fab idea.

Oh, I agree- that's a great way to do things. I have multiple drafts of a letter to a doctor i fired earlier this year. Actually, it's the nicest letter I've ever written- that is if you don't understand sarcasm!

Here's a sample paragraph...

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I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of feeling belittled, demeaned, and not taken seriously. More than that, I think that the experience of seeking pain relief, and the only relief I was granted was releasing some stress in the form of crying was the highlight of my night.

As I’m sure that you are aware that a complete emotional release can produce chemical reactions in the brain similar in nature to those produced artificially by Rx drugs for therapeutic treatment, I am almost embarrassed to have to explain that to you. Multiple studies have shown that both crying and laughing are perfectly healthy, by the way, as both an endorphin release and in the specific case of crying, a coping mechanism. Thus, such reactions should not be looked at as an immediate sign of psychiatric instability. In fact, from the experience with pain that I’ve been given the opportunity to understand and experience first hand, I would look more suspiciously at the patient whom having spent over a month in pain claimed that all was well, and/or presented as if they had walked right off the set of a movie.

Yeah. I didn't send it...

And that may be one of the more benign paragraphs.

Jamie

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Originally posted by NancyHOST:
Gretchen, what a wonderful reply!

I really like the dope-slap part, but even part your voice of reason. Writing the letter and sitting on it for 24 hours - fab idea.

I did not going to write a letter to the neuro that I fired to her face. I figured that was sufficient enough as I also did it in front of her staff. I was not going to waste a stamp.

With-in 30 days I wrote a formal complaint letter to the State Medical Boards which included all the necessary documentations & the SMB notified the the doctor of the complaint.
The doctor had to respond to the complaint with-in 2 weeks.

The SMB had this doctor investigated, they also investigated my GP doctor who was the one who originally referred me to this nut.
Then the SMP interviewed my current Neurologist.
Unknown if any of her patients were "interviewed". I was not privy to that info.

Approximately 4 months later I received a letter from Dr Nut's attorney offering me a settlement along with a release form to drop the investigation!
I was not "asking" for anything!!! Furthermore, I was not represented & had no intentions of being so. I sent a copy of this "offer" letter to the SMP along with a copy of my letter to this attorney advising them "we can chit-chat" after the investigation is completed.

Approximately 8 months later from the time I filed the complaint I received a letter from the SMB informing me that Dr Nut medical license was suspended for 1 year.

Oh, NancyHOST mentioned something about being "blackballed" in the medical community. I wish!!! In my neck of the woods that 's harassment which is a FELONY. Pookie will be filing Federal law suits all over the medical community!

I never did hear back from Dr Nut's attorney.

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Originally posted by NancyHOST:
Gretchen, what a wonderful reply!

I really like the dope-slap part, but even part your voice of reason. Writing the letter and sitting on it for 24 hours - fab idea.

I agree, sitting on it for a day or so is a great idea. When I write letters like that, I go over and over them before I ever send them. If I do.

Robin

Man, Dr. Nut must have had several visits with the Medical Board in the recent past. Isn't it great to be vindicated!

Gretchen

Granted, having sick kittens is nothing like suffering a migraine and being treated badly by a doctor and his staff, but I had a direly sick cat that I'd gotten from a store that ignored all policy rules.

I ended up writing a 4-page letter to them detailing the aspects of the purchase, their employee treatment and lack of education, not to mention careless handling of animals with diseases that came into contact with others (people and animals!); and the list of problems the kitten had suffered, along with copies of my vet diagnoses and reciepts for the kitten's meds.

I would definitely be writing a letter to the doctor and I would detail specifics and then detail the reasons I would never go there again and why I wouldn't recommend someone to them. Sometimes a person needs a knock over the head to understand that they way they are treating people is not optimal.

Of course I do not know all the details of your adventures with this doctor and I don't know what's best for you, but a letter is a fine recommendation and with treatment like you've received I don't think, if I were in your shoes, that I could let him get away with it without saying anything. You never know how he might treat someone after you, maybe your letter would have an impact.

dont worry, i refer to a surgeon that i went to see as the idiot. all he wanted to do was biopsy my pineal gland. he was like a kid in a candy store with it. he couldnt wait to get to it. and as sad as it sounds and as vain as it is, they would have had to shave my head to get to biopsy (just the biopsy is a major surgery, besides removal). I looked at him, called him an idiot to his face and stormed out. And they call him the most highly regarded surgeon in the north west. He can kiss my you know what.

I thought you guys might appreciate this:

After deciding not to see my neurologist anymore & then finally getting up the courage to ask for my medical records, I got upset because the notes were scant & contradictory & received no EEG scan (which I need for my next step). I got upset because the doctor kept contradicting...saying I had sleep EEGg & stuff caught during sleep when the EEG report says it's an awake EEG , in one note I had a normal neuro exam even though she told me verbally & made a referral for MRI because she said I had "left sided weakness" & confusing when I talked about left side getting migraines with right, plus saying she thought I had "mixed tension headaches with a vascular component"...(?)

My significant other reads the reports and starts laughing...because she mentioned I had "pleasant dizziness" (since I never reported dizziness it's pleasant??) & "genital insomnia" & said that he wouldn't take it seriously & it's a good thing I'm not seeing here anymore. That definately put things in perspective.

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Originally posted by Alexandra "Morpheus":
My significant other reads the reports and starts laughing...because she mentioned I had "pleasant dizziness" (since I never reported dizziness it's pleasant??) & "genital insomnia" & said that he wouldn't take it seriously & it's a good thing I'm not seeing here anymore. That definately put things in perspective.

I just burst out laughing so hard that my suitemates came to see what was up. I like the description of your insomnia.... ROFL!

Oh, and pleasant dizzyness. That's a new one for me...My... how pleasant this dizzyness is?!

That doc's reports on the dizziness and insomnia are one of those things that are so funny, yet not. I'm glad you can laugh about it now, but I bet the first time you read it, it was frustrating. Sheesh! Wonder where that doc got his license? Froot Loops?

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Originally posted by Alexandra "Morpheus":
I thought you guys might appreciate this:

After deciding not to see my neurologist anymore & then finally getting up the courage to ask for my medical records, I got upset because the notes were scant & contradictory & received no EEG scan (which I need for my next step). I got upset because the doctor kept contradicting...saying I had sleep EEGg & stuff caught during sleep when the EEG report says it's an awake EEG , in one note I had a normal neuro exam even though she told me verbally & made a referral for MRI because she said I had "left sided weakness" & confusing when I talked about left side getting migraines with right, plus saying she thought I had "mixed tension headaches with a vascular component"...(?)

My significant other reads the reports and starts laughing...because she mentioned I had "pleasant dizziness" (since I never reported dizziness it's pleasant??) & "genital insomnia" & said that he wouldn't take it seriously & it's a good thing I'm not seeing here anymore. That definately put things in perspective.