maleficent

Just a few stories from my last doctor:

I had gone to him for bronchitis I couldn't shake-- i go thru this ona yearly basis and it's usuallya shot of tetracycline to knock it out... which I reminded him of... Doctor says he wants to try something different and gives me a prescription... I trot off to the pharmacist to get it filled... Pharmacist's computer comes up with a problem, the prescription the doctor gave me contained something I was allergic to. Pharmacist calls doctor-- Doc says -- oh he didn't realize.

Episode two, regarding bedside manner (and this is one of many incidents)
I had gone in for a blood test about two years ago in early December -- I was just tired and couldn't explain why i was so tired - it wasn't constant travel tired it was just tired... For three weeks I heard nothing - even though I calld the office 7 times for the results... Two days before christmas -- doctor calls me later that evening... and says the blood test showed something odd... (insert very vague oddness here) but he was going out of town for two weeks - could i come in January... Umm doc-- is this oddness something to worry about -- oh no - but take a baby aspirin every day just in case.. (I googled that oddness and google told me it couldbe anything from cancer, to an impending stroke or heart attack, or an error in the lab...) Now, I'm not one ot panic or anything- but this doctor was willing to leave me hanging for two weeks - with something that could potentially be life threatening. Got a new doctor the next day...

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