I was recently attempting to discuss an issue with my new doctor. She's young, female, and minority. I did not object because a small part of me still strives to treat everyone as an individual.
She's incompetent. Read a chart incorrectly, failed to understand a simple medication question, and gave an innocent prescription.
I can't be willfully blind to this shit anymore. It's gonna get me killed.
TL:DR Dumb ass doctors didn't read my Grandmother's chart after surgery and pumped her full of too many blood thinners, she had thin blood so this was life threatening. Had to check her out or she would have been dead.
Since my Grandmother has long since passed I feel a bit more comfortable sharing this story.
In the early 2000s my Grandmother went in for knee replacement surgery (At least I think it was. This was a time it my life I've been trying to purge from my brain for the last 20 years.) and the hospital she went to was not very many steps from a butcher's shop.
One time we went to visit her there was a woman yelling in pain in the next room room or two over. One of the nurses came in to check on my Grandmother and commented that the nurses wouldn't do anything for this lady unless she pressed the call button.
After the surgery and she was in outcare the doctor's didn't read her chart and kept pumping her full of blood thinners. My Grandmother had thin blood so this was a life threatening issue. We brought this up with the doctors and they didn't seem to care so we just had to get her the fuck out of there or she would have been dead.
Just damn near lost an aunt to her psychopathic doctor.
I was recently attempting to discuss an issue with my new doctor. She's young, female, and minority. I did not object because a small part of me still strives to treat everyone as an individual.
She's incompetent. Read a chart incorrectly, failed to understand a simple medication question, and gave an innocent prescription.
I can't be willfully blind to this shit anymore. It's gonna get me killed.
Diversity hiring has made straight white males sacred funnily enough as they are the few that never got special treatment.
TL:DR Dumb ass doctors didn't read my Grandmother's chart after surgery and pumped her full of too many blood thinners, she had thin blood so this was life threatening. Had to check her out or she would have been dead.
Since my Grandmother has long since passed I feel a bit more comfortable sharing this story.
In the early 2000s my Grandmother went in for knee replacement surgery (At least I think it was. This was a time it my life I've been trying to purge from my brain for the last 20 years.) and the hospital she went to was not very many steps from a butcher's shop.
One time we went to visit her there was a woman yelling in pain in the next room room or two over. One of the nurses came in to check on my Grandmother and commented that the nurses wouldn't do anything for this lady unless she pressed the call button.
After the surgery and she was in outcare the doctor's didn't read her chart and kept pumping her full of blood thinners. My Grandmother had thin blood so this was a life threatening issue. We brought this up with the doctors and they didn't seem to care so we just had to get her the fuck out of there or she would have been dead.