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Originally Posted by Rsenholzi

I noticed a great difference between up north and down here and it wasn’t for the better. The first dr I went to walked into met me with the words you are morbidly obese- not hello , how are you , my name is. When I told him, I had lost 40 lbs, it wasn’t well keep up the good work- instead it was you have a hellava lot more to lose. Next he went on to you have too many drs. When I explained I had none down here and everyone specialized up north, I was told Well you don’t need any more. He also told me I had toon many operations. When I explained I was an athlete and had severe arthritis, his answer was YOU were an athlete. The last thing he did was talk about the patient in the next room to me telling me what a big complainer he was - I left and never went back. I should have reported him. Next dr. I was stuck with the PA all the time. I had an severe asthma attack and needed meds and couldn’t get an appt for 3 weeks. I ended up in the walk-in more than seeing the dr and only saw him for well visits. My next dr was down in Clermont . He was a family physician and tried the let’s get her in and out in 10 min routine. I put a stop to that when I asked doesn’t he care about his patients. From that point on, I found him to be very good. However, he left the practice and now I am stuck again with a Nurse practitioner. So I am now searching for a new physician here in TV again. I don’t know whether any of this happened because of my age but I know when I was younger they would not have gotten away with any of this up north.

That really sucks. Unfortunately, there are doctors like that up north as well, not ALL of them are in Florida.