Useless physical
Nov. 9th, 2006 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI had the most useless doctor appointment today. I am SO frustrated I could scream. It doesn't help that I woke up this morning coming down with something and now have a low-grade fever with body aches and a mild sore throat.
It's not bad enough that this is my third annual physical at Fenway with my THIRD doctor. I don't know what is up with that but it is really annoying because there is NO continuity of care at all. This woman walked in with a piece of paper with my name on it and my "health history" which really was just what medicine I was taking at my last annual physical last November.
So the doctor gave me a hard time about taking Metformin, and I told her that it was recommended for pregnant women with PCOS through the first trimester. She told me that she had to check on that for me so she could tell me if I should stop taking it (hello, no), and then comes in with a print-out from the internet on how Metformin is recommended for pregnant women with insulin resistance/PCOS through the first trimester. She said, "You were right," and hands me the paper. I handed it back to her and said that she needed it more than I did.
She then decided that she did not want to give me my annual internal exam because she didn't want to "risk anything precious" (gag) even though I told her that I saw my doctor two days ago and he told me it was fine to do it. She also was unable to give me a flu shot because they only had the Thimerosol ones and I didn't want that. So I asked her where I could go to get the non-mercury one and she /did not have a single suggestion/. Finally she said I should call some hospitals and see if maybe they had some and if I could go get it. Whatever, lady. She said, "You should just be able to get it from work, you work in pediatrics," and I was like, "No, lady, I do not work in a medical clinic, I am a home-based social worker and I drive to people's houses all day." I had explained this to her 15 minutes prior as well.
So basically I dragged myself out there feeling ill, parked and walked up there, stripped naked (and oh, she didn't knock first and walked in on me with no clothes, too), and this is what I had done: weight check, temperature, blood pressure, boob check, breathing check, some questions about smoking and drinking and vitamins, the Metformin debacle, and the frustration about the flu shot. Is that even worth a freaking copay?
I hate them.
It's not bad enough that this is my third annual physical at Fenway with my THIRD doctor. I don't know what is up with that but it is really annoying because there is NO continuity of care at all. This woman walked in with a piece of paper with my name on it and my "health history" which really was just what medicine I was taking at my last annual physical last November.
So the doctor gave me a hard time about taking Metformin, and I told her that it was recommended for pregnant women with PCOS through the first trimester. She told me that she had to check on that for me so she could tell me if I should stop taking it (hello, no), and then comes in with a print-out from the internet on how Metformin is recommended for pregnant women with insulin resistance/PCOS through the first trimester. She said, "You were right," and hands me the paper. I handed it back to her and said that she needed it more than I did.
She then decided that she did not want to give me my annual internal exam because she didn't want to "risk anything precious" (gag) even though I told her that I saw my doctor two days ago and he told me it was fine to do it. She also was unable to give me a flu shot because they only had the Thimerosol ones and I didn't want that. So I asked her where I could go to get the non-mercury one and she /did not have a single suggestion/. Finally she said I should call some hospitals and see if maybe they had some and if I could go get it. Whatever, lady. She said, "You should just be able to get it from work, you work in pediatrics," and I was like, "No, lady, I do not work in a medical clinic, I am a home-based social worker and I drive to people's houses all day." I had explained this to her 15 minutes prior as well.
So basically I dragged myself out there feeling ill, parked and walked up there, stripped naked (and oh, she didn't knock first and walked in on me with no clothes, too), and this is what I had done: weight check, temperature, blood pressure, boob check, breathing check, some questions about smoking and drinking and vitamins, the Metformin debacle, and the frustration about the flu shot. Is that even worth a freaking copay?
I hate them.
