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On the other hand, my OB does try really hard to stay on time; her staff tends to double-book her constantly. And then when she has to go to delivery, well that just throws her off track even more. So some of it is out of her control.

The fact that if you're overweight, the cure for every medical condition under the sun is automatically "lose weight." My fiance's doctor flatly refuses to properly treat his depression because she believes everything is related to the fact that my fiance is overweight. Well, if you'd bother to treat the depression, so he would be emotionally well enough to maintain motivation, he might lose weight as fast as you're pushing him to!

That is absolutely the big one. I went to a pain specialist and waited two hours an 15 min for a 20 min visit from the dr

Undressing and showing all of these rolls. In my very own mind, I feel the doctor thinks I'm disgusting looking; but thats what I think. My doctor is pretty cool, and very supportive

I definitely think the wait is the worst. I once went to an Urgent care clinic to simply get a shot to help with a cold, I waited for 2 and a half hours. And then when I got the shot it made me sick because I didn't get to eat anything for lunch, needless to say I was furious.

Another thing is my OB/GYN and her staff are very unorganized. I not only have had a breast cancer scare (which she never called me on my results, I HAD to call her. She also scared me into almost being admitted to the hospital for a bladder infection, I had blood in my urine and she said I should be in the hospital being treated immediately. I also wasn't aware that the way she tested for UTI's was a catheter(sp) test...I had never had a catheter test or a catheter before so it was painful and made going to the bathroom a whole lot worse.

I thankfully have a new gyno and hope my experiences with him are much better.

I hate going to the doctor too, Olivia. I have hated it all my life. I don't know what happened as a child, but I think it started before I can even remember. I was so careful with my son's doctors and care and thankfully, he does not suffer from this doctor anxiety. I think that I mainly am afraid that they will find something seriously wrong with me. Intellectually, I know that early detection and treatment is important, but it still creates so much anxiety that I don't go as often as I should.

I hate having to repeat myself to the MA, then the nurse, then the doctor, etc... I also don't like it when they don't truly listen to what you are saying the problem is. I find that a lot of MA's and MOS's can be extremely rude with no customer service skills on the phone or at the front desk. Not only am I going to school to be an MA, but I work for a popular medical website, which is trying to update member's (doctor's) profiles for the site. I am astounded at how unprofessional, tacky and classless, some of the people are who work the front desk. Never in my life have I ever encountered such rudeness from people. My goal is to treat people with kindness in the MA position. I will make sure to listen to the patient or who ever is on the phone. I would like to remind them that the patient is a paying customer. Without these customers/patients, there would be no need for any staff. I also don't like having to wait for 2 hours in the waiting room and then only to get maybe 2 - 5 minutes with the doctor. I made a visit to the ER early one morning because my eyelid was really swelling and it spread across the bridge of my nose. I knew it was some sort of bacterial or staph type bacterial infection. A PA had come into to see me and tried to tell me it was acne on my nose and allergies causing my eyelid to swell. The PA wasn't listening to me or paying attention to the heat in my eyelid or nose. She also wasn't paying to attention to the tightness or the swelling in my nose. The physician came in, ordered an injection of antibiotics and prescribed me antibiotics. Then told me to keep a close eye on the situation and to come back or to see my doctor if it became worse. In real estate, they always say location, location, location! In the medical world it should be listen, listen, listen!

Everyone has already listed what I hate: the wait in the waiting room and exam room and doctors too rushed to listen and explain.

I was once afraid to keep the doctor too long knowing that he/she is busy, but no longer. I listed carefully to what he says and if I don't understand I make him explain. I don't care if he thinks I'm smart or not, I just ask every stupid question that pops into my mind.

There is a special way to take care of rude people in person or on the phone. I say, "I think you're being rude. Please start over and be civil." or "I consider your comment (or behavior) to be personally insulting. What is your name and that of your supervisor?"

These people know that we unconsciously think of them as authority figures and that we will put up with disrespect as we did as kids with adults. They're not. If it were'nt for us they woudn't have jobs and if we tell a doctor or their superiors exactly what they say they wont' have jobs. As another respondent said, remember that they work for us. We don't work for them.

What I hate most about going to the doctor is _________________.

Having 10 tubes of blood drawn for much needed tests - some for pre-op and some to figure out what is going on.

That was at noon (actually today) then at 5:15pm the clinic calls to say when can you come back - your blood clotted before we could run one of the most important ones.

So tomorrow I get to go to the hospital have my blood drawn again. Thank you much.

My doctor just sits there and says umm umm , no actual words. He has told me that he does not know much about fibro. but he understand that I am exhausted all the time, has no way to help me!! It is horrible, how do I find help? I ask the doc. to refer me and he has yet to find someone( if he is even looking) . I am in pain all the time, I just want sleep all day . My biggest problem is the fact that getting in the shower is AWFUL with the Fibro., and CF, and now COPD, I am short of breath and in so much pain I start to cry, on most days. I am on oxygen 24/7, my personal care provider keeps telling me that oxygen can give me a cold, and that it is not helping th Fibro. I told her that it isn't supposed to help that, Then she says why have it. DUH I need it to breathe, that's kindof important! I live on east coast of MD if anyone can give me a doctor's name I would be forever greatful.

What I hate most is repeating my medical history over, and over, and over, and over...

We need digital medical records so that people like me don't have to repeat the same information to 15 doctors!

don't weigh. once in a while they'll ask me and i tell them but its inside the room. i hate when i tell them something (i've had some really weird stuff) they look at me like REALLY???????????????????/ HELL NO I JUST LIKE SPENDING MY MONEY TO COME TO THE DOCTOR! GROWL! I HAVE A DIGITAL MEDICAL RECORD BUT WITH AN HMO MY PHYCH HISTORY IS THERE. NOT EVERYTHING BUT A SHORT NOTE AND MY DX. THAT MAKES ME MAD BECAUE I DONT FEEL ITS ANY OF MY DOCS BIZ IF I HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS OR NOT!

I hate leaving my house. Like you I know it's a necessary evil,
but the panic is unbearable.

I'm fortunate that my doc realizes I'm not able to wait and as far as the scale I get on backwards,

You need a new Dr.