Who is the Worst Doctor You Ever Dealt With?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

No names of course, but just more descriptions of what they did and why they sucked.

I've had at least one or two. Actually one of the first doctors I ever saw, gets criticized by my mom to this day. She diagnosed me, as a baby, as "failing to thrive" despite having almost no symptoms in common with babies commonly understood as such.

[Mozenrath]

Dr. Giggles was questionable.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Dr. Acula. All he did was suck blood from my neck.

[Deleted]

I once had real trouble sleeping and before I even muttered a word to my doctor who was like 30 minutes late, he just wrote me a prescription. I now realize I could of probably gotten any prescription written by him if I wanted too.

[MiLB Fan]

My pediatrician, no question.

His biggest problem was that he had no customer-service skills whatsoever. You would walk into the building and even from the waiting room, you could hear him yelling and kids crying. The worst part was when the nurse finished the preliminary examination--vital signs and such--then she said, "the doctor will be in in a few minutes." Then she closed the door and ... silence. I dreaded hearing that door open and him coming in with that booming voice of his.

On a whim, I Googled his name and found him on some of those "rate your doctor" sites. Let's just say that he didn't score very well!

[denna5]

When I was about seven, maybe eight, I ran my foot into a door jam and broke my pinky toe on my right foot. My mom was pretty sure it was broken and took me to the er so I could get pain medication that was better than children's Tylenol. The doctor on call came in with crazy hair and eyes as wide as saucers and really jittery. In hindsight I think maybe he was on something. He ended up giving me a cast halfway up my calf for my broken toe and I don't even think it covered my toe. I had to have it for two weeks in the summer, it was horrible and this doctor had a lot of horror stories floating around so I was probably pretty lucky but it still sucked.

[mizerable]

It's like I wasn't even talking to a real person!!

[bibboid]

When my daughter was born the hospital had a horrible pediatrician on duty. Dr said my daughter's bilirubin levels were too high. Insisted that if we didn't act RIGHT AWAY she would end up with jaundice and die. He yelled at my wife because her milk wasn't coming in fast enough. He ordered hourly blood draws on our infant until she had bandages on every finger and toe. Told us if we didn't do exactly what he said, we would end up killing our child. Kept us all in the hospital for three days. We left the hospital when he went off duty and went straight to our regular pediatrician. She said that our daughter was never in danger and all she really needed was sunlight (which creates vitamin D which lowers bilirubin levels)

[Shark]

The first doctor I ever went to once I got my own health insurance was terrible. I was noticing swelling in my foot and ankle and was freaking out about it so I made an appointment and went and was quickly sent into the exam room. I then waited for over an hour in that tiny room, the office was not crowded either so I don't know what the hold up was. Finally the guy comes in, doesn't introduce himself, doesn't apologize for keeping me waiting. He looks at my foot for about 5 seconds. Asks me a few questions and asks me to come back the following day for some blood work. I leave and realize that I can't make the appointment so I call to reschedule and the nurse who answers tells me they don't do any blood work and had no idea what I was talking about. I cancelled the appointment outright and have since changed doctors.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

All I know is that every time he got mad he got a little green

[crabbymelt]

Last year I developed a tooth infection after dentist hours, so I went to urgent care. There are 2 urgent cares in my area- the good one, and the seedy one. I was closer to the seedy one, so against my better judgement, I went there. I was doubled over in pain, and if I had any sense of thought (or good insurance), I would have gone to the ER. I was in the waiting room for an hour, and the doctor's office for another hour. The nurses didn't even check in on me, and after an hour, I texted my ride I was gonna leave, and as I went to get up, the doctor comes in, tells me there's nothing she can do, and hands me a prescription for ibuprofen. As I went back to the waiting room, I see said doctor eating her lunch and grumbling loudly about having to work Sundays. I went to other urgent care, and they took one look at me, rushed me into the doctor who immediately looked at me and wrote me a prescription for the best pain killer ever.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

I used to have difficulty swallowing pills. I had one female doctor when I was younger get so frustrated she basically forced the pills down my throat. My mother, father, and I were shocked. That bitch was Cray.

[edgestar]

I had surgery, to replace my shunt, when I was 5. The doctor tore the bandaid off my stomach, and it was so painful. I think I told my mom, that I didn't like him, lol Not long after that, we saw him in the store, and I think I started crying
.

[111111]

I had this one Doctor once who hung out in this weird blue phone box

[ayumidah]

I've never had a bad experience that I can remember but when I was a baby, I had a cold and a doctor gave me the wrong kind of medicine and by the time Mom took me to another doctor, I was heading towards getting pneumonia. She still talks about it sometimes.

Jan 6, 2017 1:05:50 GMT -5 bibboid said:

When my daughter was born the hospital had a horrible pediatrician on duty. Dr said my daughter's bilirubin levels were too high. Insisted that if we didn't act RIGHT AWAY she would end up with jaundice and die. He yelled at my wife because her milk wasn't coming in fast enough. He ordered hourly blood draws on our infant until she had bandages on every finger and toe. Told us if we didn't do exactly what he said, we would end up killing our child. Kept us all in the hospital for three days. We left the hospital when he went off duty and went straight to our regular pediatrician. She said that our daughter was never in danger and all she really needed was sunlight (which creates vitamin D which lowers bilirubin levels)

Huh, the same thing happened when I was born, except I was badly jaundiced and the hospital staff were kind as far as I know... they almost considered transferring me to a different hospital. I think they were being more careful because there was a blood type issue between me and my mother, because she had an RH factor that I didn't.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

Jan 6, 2017 14:18:52 GMT -5 111111 said:

I had this one Doctor once who hung out in this weird blue phone box

That Doctor is the worst.

[Malibu Albino]

Colin Baker, easily...wait I think I read the thread title wrong.

[Hassan bin Sober]

Jan 6, 2017 18:18:31 GMT -5 Malibu Albino said:

Colin Baker, easily...wait I think I read the thread title wrong.

That was going to be my response, "Colin Baker".

[The Unconquered Sun]

Another bad pediatrician story. My daughter was about 5 when when we had to switch her doctor, and holy crap did we pick a bad one.
1st our daughter had already been diagnosed with autism by 2 other doctors, special Ed teachers and both her mom and me could see it. But nope, this doctor having only seeing my daughter for 5 minutes was convinced that the real problem was she couldn't hear. Yep, 5 minute diagnoses. Keep that in mind for later.
Also she diagnosed Kairi with a cursed spine (can't spell it). No doctor since has seen this curved spine.
So I wasn't thinking too highly of her to begin with when Kairi's school sent home some papers that needed to be filled out by her physician. The doctor REFUSED to fill out the paper work because she REFUSED to believe Kairi was autistic.
Welcome to the last straw.
I flat out told her that she worked for me and and I would be happy to find a new doctor. She flipped out and demanded we leave.
We did and soon found a new doctor (that agreed with autism and didn't see a curved spine). The sad thing was we had to give him up when we moved across the state. But for her new doctor we did our home work on her before choosing. Learn from my mistake.

[Urethra Franklin]

Three generations of my family have gone to our doctor, but his office is on the other side of the city, so it was super inconvenient to get to at times.

When I was a kid, we'd often go to a walk-in clinic closer to home. We'd go to this guy if we had the flu or something similarly not so serious. Nice guy, but absent-minded.

Well, one day my mom turned over on her ankle getting off the treadmill and the swelling didn't go down for a couple of days. She couldn't get an appointment to our family doctor, so she went to the guy at the walk-in.

He examined her ankle and was of the opinion that it was a sign of angina (a form of heart disease). My mom was skeptical of his opinion, but scheduled a follow-up with a specialist anyway.

When she met with the specialist the next week, the doctor couldn't believe that she was referred over what was obviously a badly sprained ankle that had nothing to do with her heart.

The doctor asked my mom in all sincerity if the doctor at the walk-in clinic had a drinking problem.