Doctor Bouncy

[zeitgeist]

I really couldn't help bringing this one.  Although it does not completely conform to the 'bouncy template' unless you interpolate a bit, it does provide both humor and hypocrisy.


We begin with the bouncy and its time line found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7627659

rsmith6621 (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-02-10 08:48 PM
Original message
A Note To MY Doctor Today.....About his prioritys and ethics
 Edited on Tue Feb-02-10 08:49 PM by rsmith6621

Today I went to my DR to get refills on some persciption and to discuss an issue I have been having for the past couple of months.

So it has been two years since I have seen him as I have been living in Memphis. So I show up 15 minutes early to update paperwork.

9:45am Arrive at Dr Office Appointment is for 10am

10:00 Appointment time..

10:15 Read article in Web MD about sex

10:20 Big Pharma show up

10:25 Read another article in Web MD about sex

10:30 Another Big Pharma Show up

10:45 45 minutes past time Receptionist has said I will in soon in the mean time the 2 Big Pharma's have left and 1 More has entered and three people who showed up after me have been escorted to the patients room..not one person has left the exam area...

10:50 Reading article on Valarie Bertenelli bikini success story...oh yah baby..

10:52 Two people exit

10:54 Two more exit...

11:05 They finally call me back...

11:10 Waiting in exam room..

11:15- 11:35 Still Waiting in exam room..

11:35...Go outside to ask nurse if Im next and see BIG PHARMA.....again....she say Im next...

11:45 I hear Dr outside door....oops he goes to his office to talk to.....BIG PHARMA

11:50 I grab a pen and notepad in the room and write the following....not verbatim

Dear Dr......Two hours ago I respected your time by showing up 15 minute early for my appointment.(I then list the above time line in to the text of the letter) The above time line is a pretty accurate account of my time spent in your office this morning..Dr A. I have once sat and listen to your complaints about the industry I work in and how you wish the airlines had to provide compensation if they make you late for a connection or sit you on a plane for more than an hour, WELL DR A today I have experienced exactly THAT. It would appear that your relationships with your BIG PHARMA REPS has grown more important since my last visit with you as that seems to be why you have not yet to see me. Dr A I have decided that my time is to valuable to sit here any longer and wait. NO ONE has shown much concern for my time SO I HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING as a result. I wish you a good day and I will be notifying my insurance company of your unethical behavior and requesting they refuse payment of the charges and I will also refuse payment if you should try and charge me if they do honor my request.


12:00 I left the note on the exam table and left the way I came in.... 

And on to the show...

stray cat  (1000+ posts)     Tue Feb-02-10 08:49 PM
Response to Original message
1. I guess you will be looking for a new doctor....
 

Reasonable assumption

Zoeisright  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-02-10 08:53 PM
Response to Original message
2. Good for you for speaking up.
 More of us need to do that. 

The obligatory kudos to the poster.

slipslidingaway  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-02-10 08:56 PM
Response to Original message
4. Good for you ... 
 recently my doctor told the receptionist to tell the Pharma reps he was too busy.

He had patients.
 

Blame Big Pharma!!  At last someone recognizes we have a valid scapegoat to excoriate.

LeftyMom  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-02-10 08:59 PM
Response to Original message
7. What, pray tell, does "Big Pharma" look like?
 Were these guys throwing Viagra samples into the air like beads from a Mardi Gras float, or were you just assuming they were drug reps?
 

Whoop someone is feeling frisky, doin a little chain jerking are we Mom??

cigsandcoffee  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-02-10 09:06 PM
Response to Reply #7
11. They wear more jewelry than Little Pharma, and their clothes are obviously imported.
 It would suck to be Little Pharma, and then find yourself constantly mistaken for Big Pharma. I mean, that would suck.

Dummy humor, does it ever get old?

Wapsie B  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-02-10 09:07 PM
Response to Reply #7
12. Once you've hung around hospitals and clinics long enough you know the "Drug Rep Look."
 Dark power suit, impeccably groomed like a GQ cover not a hair out of place, athletic body. It's just something you pick up on after awhile.

Yep an once you hung around JR High you do too....

GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-03-10 10:12 AM
Response to Reply #21
66. I have seen them, too.
In my gynecologists' office. Men in suits. Some were not BIG PHARMA, however. They were BIG EQUIPMENT.

More humor or a slip of the tongue?   

Dappleganger  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-03-10 09:55 AM
Response to Reply #7
63. Around here Big Pharma looks like a hot, buxom blonde
 who can make every dream come true.

 

CAG (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-02-10 09:20 PM
Response to Original message
23. Bravo! Boy I wish more and more people would do this. I have no problem
 with ruffling drug rep's feathers. You should read some of their attitudes towards their customers over at cafepharma.com.

How exactly did the OP ruffle the drug rep's feathers?  It was the doctor who allegedly got the note.

juno jones  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-03-10 04:02 AM
Response to Original message
48. Drug reps are more than a nuisance.
 I once worked in a deli that delivered for reps to a lot of offices. We catered a couple of events that turned weird.

I once hid behind an icemaker with my boss, the owner of the shop, as a party a drug host was repping (featuring Jonnie Walker blue) quickly and painfully got out of hand.

Owner and prole could only grin nervously at each other and say, "oh shit" as the dozen or so psychiatrists got boisterously hammered courtesy of the former cheeleader representing Prozac.

I once lived in a med school town. There are so many stories to tell.

In the naked city??  ( there are a couple bouncy within a bouncys in this OP)

femrap  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-03-10 01:06 PM
Response to Original message
69. K and R
 Kick some dr. and bigPharma ass!!! I love it.

I highly recommend that you send this letter to the AMA as well....and any other agency that oversees doctors in your state!!!!

Hope you can find a good doctor in your area. I finally found one....I just keep taking vitamins and hope nothing goes wrong until I just die on the spot!

Finally we end with the perennial dump advice:  Drop a dime.

[The Village Idiot]

Remember that Big Pharma have been heavy donors to Democrats and ran issue ads in favor of ObamaCare.

[Ralph Wiggum]

So it has been two years since I have seen him as I have been living in Memphis.

Time to throw up the big flag:

In the health care environments where I have worked, doctors will not continue refills beyond a month or two if you have moved.  There is almost no way this DUmmy could have been getting any refills from this same doc for two years.  Unless the DUmmy called in the refills to a local pharmacy (wherever that is) and had someone pick them up and either drive or mail them to him, I find this to be a highly dubious story.

[BEG]

I bet they wouldn't say no to drug samples that the doctor gets from "Big Pharma".

[Ralph Wiggum]

I bet they wouldn't say no to drug samples that the doctor gets from "Big Pharma".

No kidding.  Of course I rarely turned them down either if the doc offered when I was trying a new thyroid or BP med.

[ColonialMarine0431]

Guess the author didn't get the memo...

Presidential Candidates
2008 Cycle

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products
Barack Obama (D)  $2,124,560
John McCain (R)  $665,422
Hillary Clinton (D)  $645,745

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H04

How's that Hope and Change thing workin' out for ya'?   

[BEG]

No kidding.  Of course I rarely turned them down either if the doc offered when I was trying a new thyroid or BP med.

Well neither would I but we aren't bitching about "Big Pharma" visiting doctors.  

[BEG]

Guess the author didn't get the memo...
 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H04

How's that Hope and Change thing workin' out for ya'?   

Someone needs to give up a mole and post that in the thread. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Well neither would I but we aren't bitching about "Big Pharma" visiting doctors.  

Of course not.  I LOVE "Big Pharma".

[blitzkrieg_17]

Stupid bouncy. 0.5 bongs.

[Flame]

Hmmm...I've never seen a prescription with refills for longer than a year...even my maintenance meds.

[blitzkrieg_17]

Hmmm...I've never seen a prescription with refills for longer than a year...even my maintenance meds.

Long ago, when I was on several different scripts(not "those" kind, I'm not a DUmmy) I'd have to see the Dr at least 3 times a year for refills.

[Flame]

Long ago, when I was on several different scripts(not "those" kind, I'm not a DUmmy) I'd have to see the Dr at least 3 times a year for refills.

I'm on meds for my thyroid and I have to go once a year, even though things haven't changed in at least 5 years.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'm on meds for my thyroid and I have to go once a year, even though things haven't changed in at least 5 years.

More or less the same here, except I go back every three months to get my TSH level tested (mostly because I have no thyroid at all).  My prescription hasn't changed in at least 5 years either.

[Randy]

I just call my Doc and get my maintenance med scripts continued after their year expires. It takes a day or 3 but they do it.

[kenth]

How in the world will they ever deal with "health care" government style if they stomp off after two hours? As a kid, our doctor visits would be at an Indian clinic, that was managed then by the federal government. With an appointment, we would wait hours to be seen. It was an all day affair. It would normally be minimum two to three hours after the scheduled appointment. Quite often, it was longer than that. Many of the tribes have now taken over their health clinics and hospitals and operating time has gone down to normal. Most of that is due to their own hiring of health care professionals who aren't locked into government routine and lack of motivation.

The emergency rooms of most hospitals are mini-realms of public health care also. We've seen the wait times there, and in some metropolitan areas can extend into a day. Being that most dummies cluster near cities to avail themselves of government services, their "free" health care would be free because they won't be getting in.

[ReaganForRushmore]

Horsehockey,

The Pharma reps usually see the office manager and the nursing staff. The Office manager and the nurses are the gate keepers to the doc. Doc is too busy either finishing early rounds at the hospital seeing patients, actually seeing patients and spending time with them on their maladies, or reviewing notes  and making recommendations for patients and their treatments. I challenge the DUmmies to even
try to do what most Dr.s do in one day,much less one week. The Dummies would be exhausted within an hour.

The DUmmy in question hadn't been to his Dr in several years, the Dr decided to spend time with actual patients who utilize his talent and services, not come to the office to see if they can get as many free samples of the latest drugs from the Big Pharma  reps,

[delilahmused]

GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-03-10 10:12 AM
Response to Reply #21
66. I have seen them, too.
In my gynecologists' office. Men in suits. Some were not BIG PHARMA, however. They were BIG EQUIPMENT.

I wasn't aware one could buy big equipment at my gyno's office. Here I thought I had to go the the Adult toy store but I could've just asked my doctor for samples from the BIG EQUIPMENT rep. Either that or I'm going to the wrong gynecologist.

Cindie

[formerlurker]

Time to throw up the big flag:

In the health care environments where I have worked, doctors will not continue refills beyond a month or two if you have moved.  There is almost no way this DUmmy could have been getting any refills from this same doc for two years.  Unless the DUmmy called in the refills to a local pharmacy (wherever that is) and had someone pick them up and either drive or mail them to him, I find this to be a highly dubious story.

I was going to post the same thing -- he is full of shit.

[DefiantSix]

I wasn't aware one could buy big equipment at my gyno's office. Here I thought I had to go the the Adult toy store but I could've just asked my doctor for samples from the BIG EQUIPMENT rep. Either that or I'm going to the wrong gynecologist.

Cindie

If this ain't your doctor:



you're goin' to the wrong gynecologist.

[delilahmused]

If this ain't your doctor:



you're goin' to the wrong gynecologist.

Well, since mine is a white woman, I guess I am. Somehow I doubt my husband would let me go to one that looked like this, though.

Cindie

[Randy]

Well, since mine is a white woman, I guess I am. Somehow I doubt my husband would let me go to one that looked like this, though.

Cindie

Yo Big Daddy be playa hatin'
Don't hates the playa, hates the game.

[AllosaursRus]

I wasn't aware one could buy big equipment at my gyno's office. Here I thought I had to go the the Adult toy store but I could've just asked my doctor for samples from the BIG EQUIPMENT rep. Either that or I'm going to the wrong gynecologist.

Cindie

Oh Noes!!!!!! Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! You'll have to let me know when you find that Gyno! I'm sure "Toots" would be interested! She hates going, but that might make her visits more enjoyable.

I have to go once a month to see the Doc. I have scripts that have to be hand written every month. Rarely do you walk in and walk out. Dr's never know what kind of complications will acompany a patient, so keeping to any kind of schedule is impossible. I hope when this asshat needs it's records forwarded, they include this little note! Wonder how that will impress the new MD?

[AllosaursRus]

Well, since mine is a white woman, I guess I am. Somehow I doubt my husband would let me go to one that looked like this, though.

Cindie

Yep! Best thing to ever happen to female health care! Gynos that have been thru the same crap as their patients! Sorry, but I just don't see how a man can truly understand female plumbing.

[delilahmused]

Yep! Best thing to ever happen to female health care! Gynos that have been thru the same crap as their patients! Sorry, but I just don't see how a man can truly understand female plumbing.

Well, at least conservative men can find the female plumbing and know how to use a wrench.

Cindie