Have you ever fired your doctor?

Yeah, When we decided not to have kids I wanted the snip, my Doctor said he wouldn’t do it I said fine tell me who will he did ,and I never saw him again.

I had a well recommended internist for a long time, he was my dad’s doctor, and also saw my mom, my ex, my brother and his wife, and a colleague from work.

But he is getting to th splint he should retire. About five years ago I scheduled a physical, and all he said was, ” what seems to be t he problem?”. He scheduled tests but didn’t really examine me or check me out physically. So I switched to a young female Doctor n the same practice. Now I feel attended to.

Lots of times. Like the time I was pregnant with my first child and my OBGYN threw a tantrum when I asked one too many questions. Never went back.

Or the time our pediatrition threw a fit when my kids kept showing up in his office clearly ill. Found a new doctor pronto.

Or the time my endodontist gave me a trash can filled with sanitizing wipes that reeked of chemicals to throwup into. I made sure my referring dentist heard the entire horror story.

I have lots of other stories, but I don’t want to major on the negatives.

Now I am very careful when I choose a new doctor. No more Mickey Mouse nonsense.

We can attend any doctor’s surgery here. You have to make an appointment but other than that, you can change very easily. I haven’t done it for a long time but your new doctor can request your files be sent to them. You don’t have to speak to or have anything to do with the former doctor.

In this situation, I think you should put your complaint in writing. The doctor is being disrespectful to her patients. I really hate when doctors behave as though they can take as long as they like and have no responsibility to respect their patients’ time.

Fired? I just go to a new doctor if I want to go.

The only time it’s a problem is when the doctor you want to see is in the same practice. The original doctor has to release you to the other in some practices.

The new doctor can just request a copy of your chart, or you can pay for a copy and then you have it if you wind up trying out more than one doctor.

Not fired, but yes, I’ve had really bad experiences and decided to ditch doctors. When I was trying to establish a primary after my really severe rib injury, the doctor I saw completely blew me off and tried to put me on antidepressants after meeting me one time, and said that all of the pain was in my head, and also tried to refer me to a psychologist. Why? Because my best friend had died a few years prior. Fast forward to now and my current doctor was the one who helped me figure out that my muscles over my ribs had severe scarring and kept tearing, and weren’t holding my ribs in place, and were causing some breathing problems and other things.

I am now extremely cautious when it comes to doctors and won’t see someone twice (but I really like my primary so don’t have to worry about it) if I get bad vibes.

Regarding repercussions with forwarding medical records, I’m pretty sure they are legally obligated to transfer your files upon request. All you do is sign a piece of paper at the desk saying you authorize it, you give them the name of the doctor and the clinic address you want your files to be sent to, and that’s that. If they don’t comply, I think they can get into all kinds of trouble.

No but I’ve wanted to fire a few receptionists before. The first one for putting the wrong date on my appointment card and the second for scheduling me with a nurse practitioner when I clearly asked for a primary care physician.
@SQUEEKY2 What is the snip?

@dxs really?? If you don’t want to have kids and your a guy what do you think it is??

@SQUEEKY2 Beats me but I mean I don’t want kids either. It sounds as if you cut your penis off. That’s something I’d never do in a million years.

I switched dentists. I have a genetic defect where one of my baby teeth doesn’t have the adult tooth underneath it, except it’s not really a baby tooth either. It has bigger roots than a baby tooth, but shallower than a normal adult, and it came in with my first set of teeth but never fell out. Anyway, the old dentist said it needed to be pulled out and I’d have to get a dental implant to replace it. I switched, and the new dentist says that tooth will probably last me my whole life.

@dxs I believe he’s referring to a vasectomy.

@DrasticDreamer Thank you, I don’t know why that was so hard for him,.

No problems forwarding my medical records. Very long waits at cardiologist appointments are expected.

I fired 2 cardiologist.
The first one wanted me to try a new and very powerful heart drug that would kill me if the dose wasn’t just right. After 8 years all the other drugs he gave me stopped being effective in helping my heart beat normally. I said that I’m going for a second opinion and he said go for it.

Another cardiologist helped my heart pump normally with a surgical procedure (radio frequency catheter ablation). But 2.5 years later my heart flipped out again worse than ever. He wanted to destroy my heart’s pacemakers (AV & SA nodes) give me an artificial pacemaker and keep me on anticoagulants for life. I told him that I decided to have a more invasive surgery (mini-maze) by another cardiologist who claims a 70% success rate and he said, “You know what they say, if it sounds too good to be true…” Later he said, “Thanks for letting me know what you are going to do”.

It’s been over 2 years since the successful mini-maze surgery and my heart continues to beat in normal sinus rhythm and I’m taking no medications whatsoever. I see a third cardiologist just once a year.

@chyna I came across this question again and it occurred to me that you might thing your record is literally forwarded and no longer is held at your current doctor? Typically, a copy of your chart is sent to the other doctor, or a copy is made for you, whichever is requested. Your current doctor will still have your original chart. The law requires he keep your chart for many years. I think it’s 7 years, it might be longer.

The one possible exception is if you go to a large medical center where you use a central chart, and the chart is usually held at your doctors office and not central records. Then your entire chart might move with you if you use another doctor in that same medical center. I don’t come across that often. I did experience that when I had military care, but the chart always eventually went back to central records. Now, I don’t even know if that medical center I used to go to has a physical chart like that? It might be all computerized. I know my dad had a blood test in MD and the Navy base in TN looked up
his result with no problem.

Your doctor gets requests to forward charts all day long. You don’t need to explain why.

I just looked up one thing, it seems the law doesn’t require the doctor to maintain the chart if he transfers the chart, but I’ve never had a chart transferred. I just request a copy.

I fired the first doctor I was assigned here. I never needed one until I got pregnant after living here 2 years. So I went in to confirm what I suspected. He had me fill in a new patient form. One line it asked for religious affiliation. I wrote Not Applicable. He asked about that and I said I wasn’t religious and he said that he worried deeply about that because I wasn’t considering the soul of my unborn child. Never saw him again.