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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to go annually, do all the checkups, jump through all the hoops, but several years of terrible care and blatantly incompetent clinicians (e.g. diagnosed me with "tonsillitis" in the tonsils I had removed when I was 8), and I just can't trust them anymore. I've also been abused by doctors who had a poor sense of boundaries, including being stalked by a doctor. I now get horribly nervous even thinking about going to the doctor, and my general health is suffering.

How am I supposed to get over this? I still have a body, and it's still going to need care![/quote]

I was in a similar position. Got some truly horrible care over the past few years (an ER doc wanted to send me home to take "antacids" when I had a ruptured appendix -- they just don't believe us women when we have pain), a decent primary care doc that I couldn't get in to see (no appointments with her available for 6 months), having to wait 6 months to see the sleep med doctor after being diagnosed with sleep apnea and suffering the whole time, and I too was abused by a doctor when I was young and vulnerable. I had told my husband I was done with doctors and that I'd never set foot in an ER again. He convinced me to interview female concierge doctors to see if that might work as I have numerous health issues. It did work out. But it took me a while to find one who was taking new patients and it is expensive. But I'm getting good care, and I trust the doctor.

Oh, and I wonder about the stalking, because I think a DMV doctor might have stalked me as well. [/quote]

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