Writing Letters to Your Doctor

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I think it's a good idea to let our doctors know about the mistakes they make. If they listen and learn from their patients, they may avoid making the same mistakes with outher patients. I used to find it difficult to do this, as we always used to think of doctors as being "little gods." However, I got over my hesitation when I once had a male genecologist who was so horrible I finally opened my mouth and said something. The conversation went something like this:

Doctor: Well, Mrs. Morse, I see you have fibroids in your uterus. You really should have a hysterectomy. You're 35 years old now. You certainly don't need your uterus anymore.

Me: Well, doctor, how about we just cut off your balls, as you are far older than I am so you certainly don't need them anymore.

(By the way, I had my last child, who is a joy to me, when I was 39.)

Donna, I think it's a very good thing that you wrote your doctor that letter. I wonder if he actually got it, or if it was opened and merely filed by office staff.

It's very true that we all need to be responsible for our own health care. To the doctors we are only a body and a statistic. But it is our bodies and we have to live in them every day.

Colleen

snowgooseflying wrote:

Hi Terri!I hope your neurologist can help you. My neurologist gave me about 10 boxed samples of Celebrex for my pain, and I was really looking forward to taking it. But when I got home and looked up Celebrex on the Internet, it said it's a sulfa drug. I'm allergic to sulfa, so I couldn't take it. Besides that, the dates on all of the boxes had expired. I sent him a letter telling him the samples were expired and that it should already be in my file that I'm allergic to sulfa drugs. I hope he's not mad at me for doing that. I guess I'll find out at my next visit.Donna********************************Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. --Bishop HallIf you should die before

me, ask if you could bring a friend. --Stone Temple PilotsI shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. --Willa Cather

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Colleen,

I wish I'd had the nerve to say that to a gynecologist I went to

long ago. During a routine GYN exam, the doctor said that I had a

polyp on my cervix and he was going to cut it off right then and

there. I asked, " Won't it hurt? " And he said, " No, you don't have

any feeling there. " Well, when he cut it off, I screamed bloody

murder! It hurt like hell! I wish I'd had the nerve to say, " Well,

doctor, how about we just cut off your balls? " Ever since then, I

only go to female gynecologists. At least they're more familiar

with that part of our anatomy. However, a very pretty, blonde

female gynecologist who must have been in her 40's once said to

me, " I recommend that you have a total hysterectomy since you've had

premature menopause. Those organs are just sitting there not doing

anything, waiting to become cancerous. You don't need them, and

they're probably diseased anyway. " I never went back to her, and I

never got a hysterectomy.

Donna

> Hi Terri!

>

> I hope your neurologist can help you. My neurologist gave me

about

> 10 boxed samples of Celebrex for my pain, and I was really looking

> forward to taking it. But when I got home and looked up Celebrex

on

> the Internet, it said it's a sulfa drug. I'm allergic to sulfa,

so

> I couldn't take it. Besides that, the dates on all of the boxes

had

> expired. I sent him a letter telling him the samples were expired

> and that it should already be in my file that I'm allergic to

sulfa

> drugs. I hope he's not mad at me for doing that. I guess I'll

find

> out at my next visit.

>

> Donna

>

>

>

> ********************************

> Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun. --Bishop Hall

>

> If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

> --Stone Temple Pilots

>

> I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. --

Willa Cather

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The nerve of some doctors! The nerve that some doctors even have the nerve to call themselves doctors! Do they not have the first clue about what the Hypocratic Oath means???

Colleen

snowgooseflying wrote:

Colleen,I wish I'd had the nerve to say that to a gynecologist I went to long ago. During a routine GYN exam, the doctor said that I had a polyp on my cervix and he was going to cut it off right then and there. I asked, "Won't it hurt?" And he said, "No, you don't have any feeling there." Well, when he cut it off, I screamed bloody murder! It hurt like hell! I wish I'd had the nerve to say, "Well, doctor, how about we just cut off your balls?" Ever since then, I only go to female gynecologists. At least they're more familiar with that part of our anatomy. However, a very pretty, blonde female gynecologist who must have been in her 40's once said to me, "I recommend that you have a total hysterectomy since you've had premature menopause. Those organs are just sitting

there not doing anything, waiting to become cancerous. You don't need them, and they're probably diseased anyway." I never went back to her, and I never got a hysterectomy.Donna********************************"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear." ---Dave Barry"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives." ---Sue "No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that that he can hold his own in the conversation." ---Fran Lebowitz