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Originally Posted by Kid Lester  Or better yet:
I have experience with the following doctors:
Dr. X
Dr. Y
Dr. Z
Please PM me if you'd like info on any of the above. |
It's not even necessary to do this.
When patients have negative experiences with a physician, they are perfectly free to tell ALL, who will listen, about it. The Internet is ideal for doing this. You have to restrict your comments to verifiable facts, though.
Let's say you go to Dr. X because you developed a bruise two weeks ago that not only does not seem to be healing, but has enlarged and is turning a sort of sphincter brown/staphylococcus yellow (really yucky).
Dr. X shows up at the office an hour after your scheduled appointment. No apology. He doesn't even look at your chart. He looks at the bruise (big black and blue mark) and tells you not to worry.
He tells you it's a deep contusion and will take a little more time to begin disappearing. In addition, he's abrupt with you, seemingly dismissing your other concerns as though you're a self-absorbed bore.
You leave, paying your co-pay on the way out, and go home. Over the next two weeks, you develop symptoms of nausea and vomiting. And, the bruise is still there, every bit as UGLY.
This time you go to Dr. Y who orders some blood work to check for liver malfunction. Three weeks later, Dr. Y calls you and has you come into the office for a follow-up.
He explains that your liver tests are abnormal and you need to undergo additional blood testing because he's concerned with the possibility of Hepatitis C or possibly even the onset of liver Cirrhosis.
As it turns out, it's the former but treatable. You receive the treatment and live happily ever after. Well, except for the part about your husband having that affair with Raoul, your gardener, while you were in Dr. X's office!
Now you're good and pissed at Dr. X. You want to warn others about him.
You may relate any of the facts I stated above, but do NOT embellish and leave Raoul out of it.
1) I had to wait in Dr. X's waiting room for an hour because he was late arriving at his office.
2) Then, all he did was look at my bruise and tell me not to worry. It took him less than 3-minutes. He told me that it would go away in another week or so.
3) Two weeks later, the bruise was still there, big as ever, and, I became even sicker with nausea and vomiting. So, I went to Dr. Y.
4) Dr. Y ordered blood work to test for several things, including liver problems.
5) As it turned out, I was suffering from onset Cirrhosis of the liver. It's a good thing I went to Dr. Y and didn't wait.
6) On top of this, Dr. X. did not seem too concerned with other questions I had. He seemed withdrawn and too impersonal.
7) I'm not going to him again.
You can say these things to all who will listen as long as you can document the scenario, which would not be difficult to do. And, you may use any media means to do so.
Here's what you CAN"T say! Actually you could say it, but you'd prove your own stupidity.
"Yeah, I went to Dr. X. He's an asshole. He made me wait an hour past my scheduled appointment time because he's too self-centered to care about others' concerns or time.
And I'm pretty sure that it was this hour that gave my husband and Raoul a chance to get 'together!'
He's a quack, too. He misdiagnosed my problem and it damn near killed me. Stay away from this moron!"
I can't imagine any of the posters that I've read on this forum, so far, doing this. However, morons are a dime a dozen.
Three weeks, a month, two months from now... one of those racist mental midgets from the News Journal Forums logs on here, and reads this thread.
That poster makes a statement similar to the one above. We all ignore the post. He didn't use the word f-u-c-k in the post, so the bad-word censors missed it.
For some reason, though, A file clerk, who knows Dr X's former next door neighbor's second-cousin's girlfriend's brother, and hates Dr X with a passion, sees it.
He sends the post to Dr. X with a notation; "See, asshole, I told you that I'm not the only one who can't stand you."
Soon, Chase may hear, "All rise. The Superior Court of the State of Delaware, New Castle County, is now in session. The honorable Bigpric Hangumhigh presiding."
Let me repeat. No matter how well intentioned, this is a dangerous thread because it only takes one clueless jerk to cause a lifetime of heartache.
Years ago, Prodigy learned this the hard way. Here' a
link. Prodigy eventually settled, but not before an appellate court upheld the lower court's findings of fact, law, and award.
Finally, if YOU are the patient in this scenario, you DO have a legitimate claim against Raoul for alienation of affection. Your husband can probably kiss his balls and money goodbye, too.
In fact, you might even be able to drag Dr. X into this festering mess, especially if you can show that he knew Raoul and owed him some sort of favor... if you get my drift.
Regards,
Joe Walther
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