To fill in the facts that “golfing eagle” wants so that his “million” comments can be reduced to one – “dddave is right”:
First, Dr Gillikin did say an MRI was necessary, and yes, she said it was needed for her to diagnosis my situation. However, she never gave me a reason for it. Second, she never told me where to get it or when. Fourth, she never told me how to treat it in the interim, Fifth, she never told me physical restrictions, if any, that would be needed in the interim. Sixth, these questions were popping around in my mind, and she never gave me a chance to ask them. Finally, and most important – if, as you say, Osteomyelitis or Cellulitis are so very dangerous, why did she think it was okay to wait two weeks to see her again?
As for Ocala Infectious Diseases, Dr Schwartz arranged an appointment for me the next morning. Dr Haris Lambe was my treating doctor. He spent over half an hour questioning me on in the chronology and symptom changes. He concluded as you had said – cellulitis or osteomyelitis, with differentiation come as a result of an MRI. He immediately arranged for one that afternoon. When I arrived the next morning, the radiologist had already read the results, informed Dr Lambe, of a diagnose of cellulitis, and the10 day regiment was started.
By any standards, I challenge anyone to say that Dr Gillikin’s competence was anywhere near that of OID.
PS:” Staff attitude and bedside manner aside…?” Unfortunately, that is the mantra of too many physicians today, of which I assume, “golfing eagles” is one. I would remind everyone who has taken the Hippocratic Oath of the following sentence within that oath:
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
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