Karihkinz said:
I dont know if that was an attack or what, seems somewhat snappy lol. If you had read thoroughly you would off seen that I had been told -spefically- from the doctors mouth himself and had a long conversation with him after surgery about how my right ovary was removed. I dont see how this can be considered miscommunication. He then left the room and told my mother and boyfriend the exact same thing as he told myself.
Fast forward to yesterday where I'm told half the ovary is still there but works fully. I'm happy enough to have both that I'm not out to throw a fit nor go after the doctor for giving me false information. Granted I'd like to know why he said "You only have your left one" numerous times, when I had both, but in the end that doesnt effect the fact that I have both and am happy with that so I figure theres no point since hes out of state.
As for supporting less then descent treatment to people with health insurance, I think thats a little off. Though I may be misunderstanding. I dont think well on medication. But from what I got is that it was pretty much "eh thats what you get for being poor". But really, I've been making my payments, I've been working hard through the pain of the last few months to not miss any, I know my debt. And I'm paying for it. Does this mean that because I couldnt go through an insurance company that could pay it all off in one big lump some to the doctor that I'm not worth keeping organized track of what they do to my body? If so, then something is really wrong with the medical system.
Anyway, I know doctors are human and make mistakes. If this was just a simple write off of miscommunication, I wouldnt of brought it up. But being told numerous different things about what was done to my body by the doctor, the hospital, and then my new doctor, I do think I have the right to be frusturated with that.
EDIT: I'm crabby from no sleep. The CO2 really hurts my chest so I cant lay down. Sorry if I come off wrong or misinterpretted what you said Pere.
I've seen an attending tell a woman five straight times that ovarian cysts can and often do go away, and I saw her ignore those words and ask five straight times in an angry way why an old ultrasound showed ovarian cysts, and why are they now telling her that her ovaries are normal. Now I'm sorry, but sometimes you all don't listen. At all. They can tell you five times that they only took out a wedge of ovarian core, and five times you'll swear they told you they took the whole thing out. It's a big barrier when a surgeon tries to explain to a patient what they did. It's two completely different languages. It's usually no one's fault in particular. Sometimes the surgeon isn't a good communicator. Sometimes the patient doesn't listen.
Even if he told you he removed your ovaries and really didn't, that's not malpractice. That's a bad memory. He probably had a lot of cases that day. He's entitled to not remembering, which is why they dictate surgical findings. It's only malpractice if he was SUPPOSED to remove your ovary, DIDN'T remove it, AND it caused you SIGNIFICANT damage in the future.
As far as health insurance goes, you're right. It is unfortunate. However, you sit in the ER for a half day because people without insurance abuse the free ER. You get the cold-eye from medical departments when you don't have health insurance, because they've been stuck with the bill too many times when the "poor" people drive off in their BMWs and you don't collect jack squat from them for it for years if that. You coming to them with a 10,000 dollar bill is a nightmare. A disaster. A liability to their existence. Something that the hospital had no control over, and that you did. You showed up to their services as a ticking bomb of bad decisions and as a social reminder that healthcare is going to fail no matter what this time. They need to keep the doors open by giving people who pay a nice ride. If they make paying patients wait as opposed to you waiting, they'll take their money elsewhere. Hospitals already run with deferred payments months old thanks to insurance companies. They cannot run with privately deferred payments that are years old.
One more thing: how many nurses you see chatting it up instead of working is not an indicator of how long you should or shouldn't be waiting. There are more of them. They're faster than we are. They can't help you until one of us is free, and we're stuck explaining to a patient five times over why her ovaries are now normal in spite of the crumpled, soiled ultrasound report she got from god-knows where while she's calling us morons to our faces, to her family, and to whoever willing to listen to her bull**** because she's in pain and demands something to be identifiably wrong with her this instant or we're all idiots.
My snappiness comes because I'm on the other side of this line, and know full-well that failed malpractice lawsuits are sinking the healthcare industry because patients abuse us and cry wolf while demanding to be fixed at the same time, and that I take offense when people complain about crazy, vague standards of care based on vague anecdotes that they don't sound like they really have a clue about but feel the urge to comment about.
Again, this case sounds very regrettable that communication lines broke down, and it is broken-down communication that is the leading cause of malpractice suits. However, the I-have-an-aunt-whose-doctors-are-morons crap annoys me to no end. Again, you and your aunt can go to ****ing Denny's to work her mass up if you're so pissed off that they're scoping and scanning and doing their best to treat her, and that it's not living up to your expectations and denial that the human body isn't a ****ing frappuchino that you have to remember to put cinnamon on, or else you screwed up.
If you have a problem with your healthcare, you're more likely to be mistaken, misunderstanding, or the problem itself. Now I'm sorry, but it's true. We do good work, and if you beg to differ you stand a good change of being mistaken. All these people with aunts and friends talking about incompetent doctors are drowning out the real people with real concerns about real malpractice, which does happen rarely. Their ranting and idiocy makes me take the complaining group as a whole less seriously. If you have an aunt with stupid doctors, a friend whose care was grossly incompetent, and you yourself was the victim of a moron of a doctor, it's not them. It's you.
Healthcare is going to grow tired of the wolf-criers very quickly, I'll warn you right now. They're wasting the rest of the population's money. They're causing physician famines in bad regions. They're poisoning the patient-physician image with their bullshit stories and bullshit notions. They're scaring other people into immediately assuming that the physician is incompetent when they overwhelmingly are not. When the statistics start coming back that doctors aren't screwing care up and these patients are still trying to strike it lucky and strike a fight, doctors are going to stop covering their asses and start kicking others to protect their name and image. Healthcare has never been better than it is now. The physician's core has never been more superior. You can benefit from that or you can whine and fabricate, IMO.
Again, the communication is lacking here, and that can be anyone's fault. A medical professional would need your complete history, the surgical report, the pathology report on anything removed, and your medical records to determine if actual care was compromised. You are entitled to see your medical records, but unfortunately you are not capable of interpreting your own medical records. You can certainly contact a lawyer, but I will tell you right now that the internet good ol' boys and their get-em attitudes won't do you a bit of good out here where lawyers are just as scared of us as we are of them nowadays. Their opinions aren't valid because they are ignorant.
I will tell you, however, that for there to be a malpractice victory, you have to prove that the physician did or did not do something, and as a consequence of that action there was significant and direct harm. He could have operated on you thinking you were an 85 year-old man, and if it didn't hurt you, it's not malpractice. Now I would never go back to him if that happened, and if he can't explain to you that he did or did not take out an ovary clearly, he needs to work on that, but it's not malpractice.
