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I'm back for those who remember me! Need to vent my anger somewhere as I am still fuming. I had another horrible experience on Friday with a doctor. One of my plugs fell out on Wednesday and I thought that it would be a simple matter to go in on Friday and get it put back in.
But, no...the doctor started trying to tell me that my dry eyes could be due to my blepharitis and refused, yes after 5 goddamn years being treated at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation by their doctors, refused to put it back in. He wanted to see if it was the blepharitis.
In short, after begging them to put it back in, I was sent away with a pre-scription for blephamite that cost me a $60 copay. Now, after going through 4 days of hell (work was absolute hell looking at the computer screen all day today) and it will be hell tommorrow until I get off early again to see the eye doctor. I have another appointment for 3:30 p.m and am anticipating another fight on my hands.
And my thought is that I shouldn't be going through this. I am going to get them to refer me out but the problem is that I'm with a HMO insurance which makes it significantly more expensive if I go to someone else.
But, I've had enough and I'm actually thinking about contacting a medical malpractice attorney and seeing if I can sue them.
My gripe is: 1. The doctor didn't listen to me. 2. After 5 years, it should be well documented in my chart that blepharitis is not the main cause of my dry eyes. My body doesn't produce enough tears and even if I had no blepharitis whatsoever, I would still have severe dry eyes. 3. They did a schirmers test last time. He did not even look at these reports. 4. If he had bothered to check the chart, he'd see that the treatment he had given me for blepharitis was ineffective abotu 3 years ago. 5. If it's not in the chart, they aren't documented my medical history properly and there has to be some law against this.
Anyway, this is about the third time this has happened because I keep getting treated by new docs when a plug falls out because I want somebody on short notice. They are normally fine but every now and again, one of them is a complete !@#$@#% and treats me like I was a new patient. Athe the complete #@!!@#$ is always an old man. So, my advice to you is to stay away from any doctor that looks like they are over the age of 50 years old (in this case, it was more like 60).
/End rant
But, no...the doctor started trying to tell me that my dry eyes could be due to my blepharitis and refused, yes after 5 goddamn years being treated at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation by their doctors, refused to put it back in. He wanted to see if it was the blepharitis.
In short, after begging them to put it back in, I was sent away with a pre-scription for blephamite that cost me a $60 copay. Now, after going through 4 days of hell (work was absolute hell looking at the computer screen all day today) and it will be hell tommorrow until I get off early again to see the eye doctor. I have another appointment for 3:30 p.m and am anticipating another fight on my hands.
And my thought is that I shouldn't be going through this. I am going to get them to refer me out but the problem is that I'm with a HMO insurance which makes it significantly more expensive if I go to someone else.
But, I've had enough and I'm actually thinking about contacting a medical malpractice attorney and seeing if I can sue them.
My gripe is: 1. The doctor didn't listen to me. 2. After 5 years, it should be well documented in my chart that blepharitis is not the main cause of my dry eyes. My body doesn't produce enough tears and even if I had no blepharitis whatsoever, I would still have severe dry eyes. 3. They did a schirmers test last time. He did not even look at these reports. 4. If he had bothered to check the chart, he'd see that the treatment he had given me for blepharitis was ineffective abotu 3 years ago. 5. If it's not in the chart, they aren't documented my medical history properly and there has to be some law against this.
Anyway, this is about the third time this has happened because I keep getting treated by new docs when a plug falls out because I want somebody on short notice. They are normally fine but every now and again, one of them is a complete !@#$@#% and treats me like I was a new patient. Athe the complete #@!!@#$ is always an old man. So, my advice to you is to stay away from any doctor that looks like they are over the age of 50 years old (in this case, it was more like 60).
/End rant
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