Am I Right In Being Furious?

[Go Hungry]

I don't know if it would do any good, but I might look into some ambulance chasing lawyers just out of spite. Assholes.

 

[Neverthesame]

Yes. You have every reason to be livid.

What kind of arrogant idiot would not rule out an organic cause first!?

Umm. I guess it is possible to bullshit your way through med school. I learned something new today.

That really is a shocking example of malpractice. You have a patient complaining of severe abdominal pain, which is getting worse with time, 3 days after gallbladder surgery. How does it not occur to the moron, that the patient may have a post-operative secondary infection or some other type of complication.They should be ruling everything physiological out, then look at psychological causes.

"If I hadn't been taking psychiatric medication, would it have taken so long for you to operate?". His answer: "No".

At least he was honest. :facepalm::rolleyes:

I know one thing for sure, if I were in your shoes, the cadavers in the pathology ward would wake up and walk away, to escape the extremely loud profanity laden screaming I would be hurling at the doctor.

I agree, you may want to seriously consider seeking legal counsel.

 

[Littl3_St4r]

Not only should you be angry, but you have a valid malpractice claim for negligence and lack of care.
Start by requesting your full medical record (on paper) for the days you were in the hospital. You have a right to it, it is yours, though you may have to pay the cost of them to print it on paper for you.
Do not say anything about filing a claim or hiring an attorney until you have your records in hand.

 

[Chincho]

Thank you all for your comments!!!

I agree that taking legal action is the way to go, at least in a serious, first world country. But I live in Argentina, where the law is not really "lawful", and what's even worse is that I live in a small city where everyone knows everybody.

I am so angry at them that I am visiting each of them, to let them know that what they did is criminal. I hope at least one of these doctors learns a lesson. It might save a life.

ETA: @ghotiff, I get what you are saying. Maybe I didn't explain myself as I should have, English not being my mother tongue. I am not angry at the people who seem to want to have PTSD. I just think they are ridiculous and don't know what they want. I am furious at my doctors. :)

 

[Neverthesame]

Do not say anything about filing a claim or hiring an attorney until you have your records in hand.

Very good advice. Even if you don't choose to file a claim this would be a good thing to bring to your new doctor. Prove right off the bat that having an anxiety disorder does not automatically make you a hypochondriac.

 

[ghotiff]

i get what you are saying.

I'm glad you manage to interpret what I intended. Sorry, I shouldn't post when I can't understand properly and can't be clear.

Such a horrible situation.

 

[StarChild]

My very precious friend @Chincho, I literally had and still have no words, for what you were forced to go through... It left me speechless! I'm so relieved, that your therapist could step in and fight for you! You have every right to be furious. My goodness, it was a live or die situation, after all, wasn't it?

I'd like to stomp into this shitty hospital, and slap those arrogant idiots for 10 hours at least! :mad::mad: - That's clearly not the way, a sincere hospital is supposed to treat their patients!

Sending healing and soothing hugs your way. :hug::hug::hug:

 

[MT Johnny]

Sorry you went through that. Yes, I always have this kind of "freak out" moment when I go to a doctor, because I wonder "what do they know about my mental health history? will they hold it against me? will they think I'm just faking it for attention?" Fortunately, the various conditions I've been treated for are all pretty "cut and dried" in terms of the diagnostics -things that show up on x-rays or in lab tests. But I always wonder if a new doctor looks at me and labels me.

 

[Danyel Lee Gaede]

If i were you i would see a lawyer to sue. not to get rich but to sue so they do not ever make that mistake again. I have had one doctor claim my leg pain was in my head from my PTSD since "There is no metalic pieces left from the bomb" as they said until they put me through the full body mri scanner and the magnets started ripping my flesh to pull the metel out. I had told them i still set off the metel detectors in airports but they did not listen. I sued for my work wages that i could not work because of the healing time and sued for the lawyer fees and i found the most expensive lawyer i could. because i was so mad. I did not need the money but i wanted those stupid self centered doctors to loose some of there money for assuming because when you assume you make an ass out of you and me ASS U ME!

 

[Lucycat]

I was taken to the hospital and put in the ICU as soon as I arrived...he decided my ailment was psychosomatic

So they kept you in ICU although they did not believe there was anything physically wrong? Bizarre. Here you would have been moved out of ICU in a flash. There must have been a little somebody in the background who thought/knew you were in the right place...

I never tell anyone about my medications except for my GP. If I go to the ER, nope, I'm not on any meds!

That is plain dangerous! If the ER ( A&E here) decide to give you medication X not knowing you are regularly taking Medication Y they could kill you. Some drugs act against each other, some enhance the effect of another and some are incompatible and will cause a reaction within you. Not a risk I would be prepared to take. I agree the stigma is wrong, but withholding medical information is dangerous.