VillagesPL, I hope your friend did not pay the outstanding balance! Unfortunately, I think situations like your friends happen more often than we would like to believe. No wonder medicare is going broke! I do hope she reported this to the FL Board of Medicine.

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I had a doctor that I fired and then he was fired, long story.....and please do not even ask who he is because it was some time ago.....

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.

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.

That would do it for me. He would be my former doctor.

There's a couple of issues here, one of which I ran into in Muskegon, MI, causing me to switch all my health care over to U of M in Ann Arbor.

One is, don't talk to seniors as if they were children. Don't talk down to ANY patient.

The other is, we are the customers. Where's the customer service?

In Muskegon, the office staff's attitude was "The doctors are gods and you will follow the rules with no complaints, including sitting in the waiting room an hour+ past your appointment time. We may be rude and discourteous because you are lucky to have these doctors." Bye-bye to them!

We are interviewing new folks now...which reminds me. I want to talk to Dr. Agbar.

C....we have to get a group together next month. I miss you.

Hold your fire on the doctor, until you know the reason. Not all patients are easy to work with, and the OP should assess their own possible instigation in the matter first. Some patients stress out the entire office, and/or upset other patients. Need more info.

1 physician who is not top notch would satisfy the statements you highlighted...
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It would be comical if it weren't so stressful, and so unnecessary!