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Originally Posted by GeoGeo
I have heard of doctors doing this to patients who disagree with what the doctor had to say. The patients were not confrontational. They just disagreed with the medication that the doctor had prescribed. I'm not sure if they thought the doctor should use a different medication or if they didn't agree with the diagnosis. All I know it involved not wanting to take the particular medication the doctor had prescribed. Another time I heard of it, the patient didn't know why they were "fired" as you called it. But then shortly after that the doctor had left that practice and started a practice of his own. So perhaps if the doctor is leaving a practice, they are required to do that.
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I think that some doctors here are very high handed.
A doctor who we are seeing said that I had turned down a test he wanted to do on me and I "wasn't going to get away with it". He had done this test on Helene but not me and hadn't asked to do it. I had assuredly only turned down one test for fecal blood as I had recently had a clear colonoscopy. Turns out it was some test about circulation to your extremities performed in the doctors office and I am a bit unclear what the use of it is. Neither Helene nor I have ever had a problem with circulation to our extremities. Four blood pressure cuffs are placed on your ankles and wrists simultaneously and you are asked to stand up, sit down and lie down. Helene has had a variety of tests on her circulatory system performed by one of the fine heart hospitals in this country but never ran into this test. Perhaps I am too skeptical. I went along with it and then was called to come in that a technician was going to be in the office on Wednesday to do an ultra sound on my leg. I haven't had any problem with my leg. ???? I am losing faith here. I refused. I may be fired soon.
You just have to wonder.