Saturday, June 30, 2007

I Hate Saturdays

I do. Saturdays are a huge bummer because it feels like it's the weekend for everyone except us. I know, I know...cry me a river...but it's probably my least favourite day of the week now that they are non-negotiable work days for Jay. No one is available to play with me...I feel like the fat kid in gym all over again.
I usually don't leave my house on Saturdays because the roads, stores and parks are filled with families having the day off together. Makes me sick. Haha.
Just kidding, I'm not that bitter...just a teeny weeny bit bitter.
I am currently playing fetch with my son. I am tossing a bag of Halls cough supressants and he is bringing them back to me. You may think this is cruel but he honestly seems to be enjoying it and it makes it possible for me to write a blog.
So my doctors appointment was a horrible joke.
Let me set the scene.
I go in with Caden who is not having a good day and sit for 30 minutes in an exam room. As I look around the walls, I notice some vintage looking cartoons framed as art....advertising CIGARETTES!!! One poster said, "Doctors choose Marlboros!" If that's even how you spell it. At this point with a screaming toddler and a freaky doctors office, I'm ready to bolt.
I finally give Caden two tongue depressors and he proceeds to play drums on a lamp which he continues doing the entire visit.
Dr. Wierdo comes in and I tell him about my symptoms and how they have been reocurring every few weeks since April, that I've lost alot of weight and am worried about becoming weak when I'm home with Caden alone. He barely listened, never looked at me once and proceeded to give me four prescriptions and called it a day. He guarenteed me I'd be feeling better in 10 days...which I already knew because that's the nature of the sickness...it comes and goes. I also told him I've been having some discomfort in my chest, which I had to remind him about at the end of the visit and he said, "Probably just heartburn, take the meds."
Like I'm an idiot who has no idea what heartburn is.
Hello? I've been pregnant before!
Never even listened with the stethescope!
Basically had no interest in diagnosing anything or getting to the route of a problem, just wanted to medicate it away....and the prescriptions he gave me are all available over the counter so he told me to, "get whichever one's cheaper."
That ticks me off, especially now that I have to pay an arm and a leg for health care. Since I pay out of pocket app. $3640.00 a year for Caden and I to be insured (this does not include co-pays, prescriptions or extra billing for emergency rooms or specialists) I want tests run! I'm not a hypocondriac, but I do know when there is something wrong with my body, and I want to know what it is. Diagnose THEN medicate if needed.
American Health Care cost IS my soap box.
Needless to say I wasted a co-pay and am on the search for a new doctor.
Anyone have a good one to recommend? In the Tallahassee area preferably. :)

3 comments:

Kyle McDonald said...

wow, you seem to have all the luck with the doctors. i am now afraid to get sick in tallahassee....AHH! I hope you start to feel better. Are you all going to be @ church tomorrow? it's another sunday of no practice!!! i'm excited. lol

Anonymous said...

Kathy,

Some doctors think patients are idiots. They have the "god" complex - they think they know everything.

Thankfully, Steve and I have been blessed with a good doctor in Tallahassee. His name is Dr. William Placilla - he practices at Patient's First on Apalachee Parkway next to Applebees.

He's been our famiy doctor for over 20 years. We followed him when he relocated from CHP to Patient's First.

If he isn't taking new patients, try our previous family doctor - Dr. Moritz Dehler. He's good too!

Dr. Dehler left our health insurance plan and that is why we went to Dr. Placilla.

We we will be praying for you a good new doctor who listens to you.

Anonymous said...

I have had two appts with Placilla in October and he is the veritable Demagogue.No talk no interaction about the issues from the MRIs that were recently done, no checking of symptoms, just his acid tongue.After an injury I have had many periods of extreme pain, and its what you call "Breakthrough" pain... high levels of pain; Placilla's reaction after I told him " Suck it up" .The Man is the worst of the God Complex MDs