Dear Doc. F.,
You and your entire office need to be shut down for incompetence.
Today, your nurse Christian called me to verify my appointment on Thursday, then asked me if I had all these other appointments done yet.
When I explained that no I hadn't, but they are all scheduled, she said I need to call you back.
An hour passed and a list of demands was made to me.
All these doctors needed to be called and told to have them call her.
I jumped through hoop after hoop calling all these places the first time, and now today I was doing it again.
All the calls were made, my phone was in non-stop use the entire day to the point the battery finally bit the dust at 3pm.
By right before that happened, your office nurse called me one last time to inform me that I was no longer a patient of yours because I failed to get these appointments done within a months time.
Excuse me?
Do you honestly think I have that much pull or authority with any doctors office, that I can call them and demand an immediate appointment with them just because that's what you want?
I did make the appointments, no they weren't immediate, but they were all scheduled, every single one, just like you told me to do.
And do we need to even discuss the amount of times your office over billed me because they lost my insurance paperwork and made me pay it out of pocket?
Of course you don't want to talk about that, it would be admitting that you over billed because you could, because you refused to see any patient until we had paid.
By my calculations, you owe me over $500 in over charges, and believe me, I will get every penny of that back because medicare is getting a phone call about your billing practices.
How about all those doctors you sent me to, who didn't take any insurance at all, and forced me to pay out of pocket?
How about the fact that your office failed to fax any of the needed records to any of these doctors you wanted me to see, yet they still scheduled all these appointments anyway?
No?
Don't want to talk about that either?
I can understand, it would mean admitting that you have an office staff full of incompetent nitwits, who stand around drinking starbucks and eating delivery food instead of faxing records where they needed to go.
Believe me, I understand how you just want to get rid of the loud mouth patient who made you very aware of all your flaws today, but guess what asshole?
I am calling the state medical board and medicare, and filing formal complaints.
I jumped through all your hoops, I paid hundreds out of pocket when I shouldn't have, I did every single thing you wanted me to do, and it still wasn't good enough for you.
Maybe having a state insurance investigator visit will be fun, maybe having your medical license revoked for malpractice is something you were hoping for cuz guess what douchebag?
It's coming.
If I have any thing at all to do with it, I will have you shut down.
I'll make calls, I'll write letters, I'll do whatever it takes to have your doors closed.

Comments
Can I assist you in any way? WTF Kat, I mean geez.... He decides you don't move fast enough? He decides that you are unworthy of medical attention? He decides that you should suffer your entire life? I THINK NOT!!! This needs to be brought to the newspapers and the local news. Then see how fast HE jumps!
Posted by: Mindy | November 13, 2007 9:08 PM
This is the very reason why I attempt to avoid Drs at all cost. The way I see it they have people that work in the office that should have called and set up referral appointments for you. And it's total BS that he drops you and give you the most idiotic reason. People like that who are Drs shouldn't ever be allowed to practice medicine. Good luck to you.. I hope you get all your money back that Dr Dipshit over charged you for.
Posted by: Sassy | November 13, 2007 10:23 PM
Damn, Kat. That's bullshit. You should call the local news and see if they'd be interested in a story like this. What a crock. That doctor should have his license yanked!
I'm so sorry you have to go through all of this, hon!
Posted by: Lisa | November 13, 2007 10:37 PM
hear you roar! I don't blame you; I'd be pissed as all hell and filing formal complaints, too!
Posted by: Devilish Southern Belle | November 13, 2007 11:56 PM
I have an idea of what you mean. I recently had to fire the doctor who diagnosed me with high blood pressure; I was having an allergic reaction to the meds she put me on and despite giving her copious three-times-daily pressure readings, a memo faxed over saying I was having an allergic reaction and over three hours on the phone, mostly on hold, and once only to be hung up on by a nurse... her response was that she wanted to RAISE my DOSE!
So I fired her and have a new doctor AND a new clinic now.
Posted by: Craig Hansen | November 14, 2007 2:01 AM