You may have encountered a bad doctor at some point since you were diagnosed with arthritis. What is a bad doctor to you? One who doesn't listen, gives poor advice, is hard to reach -- or, one who made a big mistake? The specifics will vary as we share our stories but the conclusions may be quite similar.
Years ago, a rheumatologist made a prediction. He said I'd need a hip replacement in 5 years. I thought he was a bad doctor to be making such predictions. Turned out he was spot-on.
Have you had experience with a bad doctor? What have you done with a bad doctor -- or what do you think you should do? Do you keep going to the bad doctor and try to work things out -- or do you fire him? Share your bad doctor story.
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How about bad patients? Those who don’t keep appointments for trivial reasons, who don’t come back for laboratory monitoring of drug therapy (but who want their medications refilled) & those who are oblivious to the fact that the doctor has other patients to see and cannot devote an hour in the middle of the schedule for something that should only take 15 minutes
Excellent point.