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| - I'm a little indifferent and hurt by this doctor's office.
The office staff has made me cry several times because they are so blunt and insensitive. I've been on a medication treating metabolic syndrome from an endocrinologist, and one day the office calls to tell me "You need to keep taking your medication for your diabetes" - Yes, metformin is used to treat diabetes but please familiarize yourself with WHAT my medication is treating before you call me and take a guess. They are hard to get a hold of, and quote blunt. I don't like calling them if I can help it.
Genieve, the first PA I saw was fantastic. She listened, made me feel valued, and even tried to help me with a weight loss supplement. I really connected with her, but I don't know what happened, but I never got to see her again when they closed one of their offices.
Sadly, for whatever reason, my appointments started being scheduled with another PA, Brandi who I am slightly less enchanted with. She seems very focused on selling Protandim and whatever her "Five years' worth of therapy in a short time" online forum than listening to my concerns. She's very natural, which has its place in medicine, but I think she's too far in the wrong direction. I found it weird she sent me home with a list of movies to watch about Food, and books I should read about being a vegetarian. At one point she told me my Anti-depressants were a crutch and I needed to get off them. I trusted her and tried to go cold turkey and had a severe mental issues going cold turkey on anti-depressants (which, I've read later is a REALLY REALLY bad idea) at my next appointment she said "Oh what I meant was, you should open yourself up to the possibility of no longer needing the drugs" If that's what you meant, you should have said that. At another appointment, I came to her practically begging for a referral to a therapist because I was starting to scare myself with the feelings I was having, and she balked at me. I told her I though I may be Bi-Polar or schizophrenic, which she laughed at me and said, I don't think your schizophrenic, but I'll get you a referral if that's what you really want. Two weeks later, I had a mental break, ended up in a psychiatrist's office, and guess what? I'm now being treated for schizophrenia.
I went to a follow up from her referral (To a Doctor with a SIX WEEK waiting period) mostly to tell her how let down and abandoned I felt by her, and again she made me cry. I wanted her to admit she was wrong, and she missed something I thought was very obvious, but she didn't admit fault, and sort of danced around the issue. She hugged me, and I guess that was supposed to fix it.
I'm changing primary care doctors. I wanted someone open to natural approaches, not one who practically ignores medicine in favor of a vegetarian diet.
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