PeanutTigerinBox
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ORIGINAL: CalifChick I admit that I am very angry. VERY ANGRY. The anger seems to be disproportionate to the "crime", and this has me puzzled. I found out that when I went in for the annual girly exam, that in addition to the pap test, my doctor ordered 5 other tests without my knowledge or consent. If she had discussed these tests with me, I would have told her they were not necessary and why (as an example, but not my issue... if you've had a hysterectomy, you wouldn't need a pregnancy test). If she took a sample separate from the sample for the pap (and at this point I don't know if she did), that is generally considered assault. Now the lab wants me to pay about $60 for these unnecessary tests, which isn't a whole lot of money in the grand scheme of things, but it's a waste of money (and thank god for insurance, or the lab would have wanted about $500 for these tests). I called the doc's office on friday and she was out until next week. The person I spoke to had the nerve to say "it's standard to order them", to which my response was a very agitated, "do you know what the word CONSENT means????" So now I've had a couple of days to stew on this, and instead of calming down about it, I'm more angry than ever. Dammit. Cali Reminds me on an event in 2008 where I made the mistake to agree to see the nurse practitioner instead of one of the GP's for my nasty cold....that bitch wasn't bothered about my cold and talked down on me a la "you are keen on antibiotics" and "I am writing down that I am prescribing you antibiotics despite no necessity for it"...and kept trying to bully me in one of the girly tests as you name them...now....I don't have the problem about such tests, however, I do them when "I" want to do them not when a wannabe-doctor (which a nurse practitioner is, as after all she ain't a doctor) tries to force me to arrange an appointment...since then I make sure that I have nothing ever to do with that bitch.... and of course because my antibiotics were "so unneccessary" I was prescribed another load afterwards from a proper GP...who (unlike her) bothered to look into my throat (that nurse thought to examine me with the desk in between about my horrid sore throat *snort*)...she kept going on and on and on about her test (even when I was there for my throat and for nothing else) and even when I left she talked down on me a la "and now go to the receptionist and arrange straight away an appointment..." I only rolled my eyes, went to the toilet at that practice and then left... she can be lucky I was feeling bad big time or I would have given her my song with her attitude.... My aim was to complain about her later but then my disaster meeting in canada happened and then simply life took so awful over....but I make sure that I have never ever to deal with that bitch. Later on placement (I was in a nursing home) nurses told me that they get paid for every patient who attends that test...so that was her motivation to try to push me into it...*lol* not gonna happen here...
< Message edited by PeanutTigerinBox -- 7/11/2010 2:29:13 PM >
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