My Single Mom Life

Anyone ever file a malpractice suit?
Dr. F. sent me a certified letter today explaining his reasons for dropping me as his patient.
He stated that I refused to be seen by the doctors he recommended, and I was refusing to follow his orders, and refusing to be seen by a psychiatrist for evaluation.
He also stated that I was "in need of further and urgent medical care for the elevated white cell count."
That the pain I was complaining about, was in my head.

I have the results of my tests, got a call from the radiology department so that I wouldn't be freaking out.
Dr. F. (the pain management doctor) was convinced that my white cell count was so high due to cancer.
See, when I had to call and make that appointment for the second hematology consult, they told me what he was looking for.
He believed I had leukemia and "am in need of urgent medical treatment by specialists in the field of cancer", and that is why they wanted to run the second full, thoroughly invasive, consult having to draw bone marrow from the bottom of my foot..

Six months ago, I heard something snap in my hip, that day, I called Dr. F.'s office and told them something happened. The nurse on the phone said it was probably just a joint cracking, like popping your knuckles.
Every single visit to Dr. F., he asked where my pain was and I told him that my left hip was on fire, it hurt, ached, throbbed. That my lower back was always locking up and hurting.

Do you think he ever ordered an x-ray?
A CT scan perhaps?
No, he didn't.
Instead he sent me to a hormone doctor who didn't take insurance, and forced me to see him, forced me to take a weekly injection of testosterone because mine was too low and that's why I was in pain.

I had a primary care physician and a gynecologist.
He didn't like who I was seeing, and ordered me to go to a new primary care physician who also did not take medicare.
He ordered me to see a new gynecologist who also did not take medicare.
He ordered a psych evaluation because people in chronic pain and on narcotics, are severely depressed.
How many times did I post right here, I was not depressed, but frustrated with the amount of tests and doctors I was being forced to see?
All the while I kept telling him something was really wrong with my left hip, and he blew it off as general hardware pain.

Doc M., my surgeon, ordered two tests, a Ct scan and an Imdium scan.
Well guess what?
I have the results of both the CT scan and the Imdium scan.
The CT scan confirms I have a broken iliac screw in where?
My left hip.
It also shows that the discs at the L-1 through L-2 levels are severely dessicated and degenerated.
The Imidum scan test results show no problem with my white cells.
The opinion of the radiology doctor who performed that test is "negative white blood cell study".
What does that mean?
It means I'm not sick, it means I don't have cancer or anything else, just an elevated white cell count.
The CT scan results prove that I have a broken iliac screw and disc degeneration, so um, is that pain in my head?
I don't freaking think so.

Doc F. put me through hell, demanding that I see doctors who didn't take insurance, demanding I see certain doctors that he wanted me to see instead of just letting me make appointments with the doctors I am currently being treated by.
It is my belief that he failed to do his job and order the proper tests that would have found the real cause of my pain, the broken iliac screw and degenerated discs, that the pain was not in my head, that there was no reason for me to take a testosterone injection, there was no reason to have a bone marrow test, or switch to doctors he thought were better.
It is my belief that he wanted me to switch to these doctors for kickbacks.
If he had just ordered a single x-ray of the area where I indicated I had pain, he would have found the broken iliac screw, and would have saved the both of us, months and months of unnecessary medical tests and drugs that were not ever needed.

So there we go, I am not sick, I am not in need of urgent medical care by cancer specialists, and I do have a very real cause for the pain in my hip and lower back.
Two tests, instead of all the tests and doctors he insisted I see, were never ever needed.
I am angry he put me through all of that, he had me scared to death for months that I was very sick, and I never was.
Two simple tests would have told him that I was in very real pain and not sick.
I have filed a formal complaint, but I am now considering taking this further than that.