Paying for poor care (blood, biopsy, doctors, cancer)
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I'll vent with you too OP! I literally just paid $5k in deductibles after having:
A mammogram
Diagnostic mammogram
Surgical biopsy
Breast MRI
Ultrasound guided biopsy
Another mammogram
Lots of doctor visits, etc. All of that for them to tell me that they either can do ANOTHER surgical biopsy to confirm the last one was in fact benign or we can take the wait approach and do more testing later!!! WHAT?? More testing, when? Next year when I have to pay my $5K deductible again, like I'm made of money!! AND after all those tests you can't give me a clear cut answer! Absolutely terrible!!!!!!!!!!
I'll vent with you too OP! I literally just paid $5k in deductibles after having:
A mammogram
Diagnostic mammogram
Surgical biopsy
Breast MRI
Ultrasound guided biopsy
Another mammogram
Lots of doctor visits, etc. All of that for them to tell me that they either can do ANOTHER surgical biopsy to confirm the last one was in fact benign or we can take the wait approach and do more testing later!!! WHAT?? More testing, when? Next year when I have to pay my $5K deductible again, like I'm made of money!! AND after all those tests you can't give me a clear cut answer! Absolutely terrible!!!!!!!!!!
Good grief, I went thru a similar event about 30 yrs ago with two mamms and back then so much was so much less $$$$ than it is today. After that I did my work and do what I feel is right for my breast health and do no more mamms. That's our medical world.
I research doctors before going to one, much easier to do now with internet sites such as ratemds.com and others like it.
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One thing to keep in mind is that it usually the people who are very unhappy who take the time to write a bad review and the patients who are happy or neutral don't take the time.
Also, different patients may like different things in a doctor or their personalities may be different than your personality. I found that out when I read the on-line reviews of my husband's geriatric psychiatrist. Many of the reviews were brutal and made the doctor seem terrible. My husband had been doing to him for years and both of us absolutely loved him and thought he was a fantastic doctor. This doctor was quite "old school" and suited my husband very, very well.
Reading between the lines of the bad reviews you could tell that those patients were looking for a "touchy-feely", warm, affectionate, "give a lot of advice", new-age type of psychiatrist and that was not what this psychiatrist did. But, his style was perfect for my husband (and many of his other long time patients).
I'll vent with you too OP! I literally just paid $5k in deductibles after having:
A mammogram
Diagnostic mammogram
Surgical biopsy
Breast MRI
Ultrasound guided biopsy
Another mammogram
Lots of doctor visits, etc. All of that for them to tell me that they either can do ANOTHER surgical biopsy to confirm the last one was in fact benign or we can take the wait approach and do more testing later!!! WHAT?? More testing, when? Next year when I have to pay my $5K deductible again, like I'm made of money!! AND after all those tests you can't give me a clear cut answer! Absolutely terrible!!!!!!!!!!
There is no doctor I have ever been to that was worth the staggering amounts of money it costs to go there. It's such a big financial hit each and every time and my latest dissatisfaction is the $569 it cost me to lose a tooth that split. They listed a bunch of other dire things going on in my mouth that I have to attend to and none of them included replacing the lost tooth, so I dread beyond reason any medical or dental visit because I could live for months on what I spend in 15 mins in one of their offices.
Yuck, I have usually had pretty good luck with specialists. GPs, oh my, I am very loathe to go to another one, ever.
I had Valley-Fever and the first specialist pointed it out to me as and unknown-abnormality. Then I went to a GP for a follow-up, that was a waste....I don't think she even knew how to read that xray. Then it was off to a Pulmonologist, bam, he picked out the problem area and pointed it out to me. His initial diagnosis of Valley-Fever was spot on, blood tests confirmed it.
I have kachinged the pockets of many less than helpful Doctors.
I have never had a doctor not listen, not treat my problem, or make a problem worse. Either you need a new doctor, or you need to improve communication with this one.
I've had all three. You're lucky. I'm stuck in an HMO situation, and many of the young doctors don't seem to know...
Thank you. Funny thing is when I went for my routine mammogram they wanted to do a diagnostic right away because it has been 5 years since because that was such a mess! I told them if they did not do a regular "ROUTINE" mammo I would leave because routine mammo's are covered 100% and diagnostic are not. So they did the routine mammo and then some. Yet no clear cut answers!!
CGab: I have saved my reports from the only mamms I had and the reports talked about calcifications a lot and then I started to research about taking too much calcium and stopped that and stopped the mamms.
CGab: I have saved my reports from the only mamms I had and the reports talked about calcifications a lot and then I started to research about taking too much calcium and stopped that and stopped the mamms.
The surgical biopsy was due to abnormal looking group of calcifications and came back as LCIS. Then the MRI showed two suspicious areas (a lesion and a lymph node) which initially came back benign, but then the pathologist stated that he feels not enough tissue was taken during the needle biopsy to determine a "true" benign status so he suggested another surgical biopsy! I wasn't even healed from the first one! And the LCIS findings seems to be an open window for them to justify more testing and testing and more testing! To me I feel like they didn't do there job properly and keep putting me through Hell!
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Yet no clear cut answers!!
