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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife and I had a primary care provider who was terrible. He did his own blood draws and charged them as appointments, rather than just send us to the lab. He tried to put me on statins without trying lifestyle modification on his assumption that my high cholesterol was genetic - after refusing statins I changed my diet and brought it down significantly, and my new doctor confirmed to me that his approach was not standard. He told me over the phone that I had prediabetes only to then tell me in the office that he was 99% sure that I didn't--he offered to give me a prescription to help me with anxiety because I seemed nervous during that prediabetes appointment. He called my wife and told her to come into the office immediately to discuss her MRI results, and refused to tell her whether there was any malignancy, only to sit her down in his office the next day (after an obviously sleepless night) and tell her that she didn't have cancer and just needed to change a prescription. That last one was the final straw, and we both went to get new doctors--recommended by a really good specialist our original doctor had sent us to.

In general, it seems to me that if you can get a new patient appointment within the next week or two with a primary care provider, he or she is probably not too good. Specialists are obviously different.[/quote]

Wow. That sounds nightmarish! Yes, there are definitely some doctors who are on a serious powertrip, pathologically so. YIKES![/quote]

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