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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can legal action be taken? What circumstances would warrant this?[/quote]
Doctor here. I once had to fire a patient because he was violent toward me and staff. This was 20 years ago. [/quote]

This is extreme and well warranted. 
This is more about getting rid of a patient without reason. It’s happening 
I can’t help but feel it comes down to money.
Low, Medicare, reimbursements, unlikely to get paid, that type of thing[/quote]

Disagree-doctors build their practices around accepting Medicare/medicaid/certain insurances (or not accepting them.) they aren’t going to them fire patients with that insurance for no reason! Much more likely is that the patient is a repeated no show/rude/non-compliant and doesn’t adhere to agree  upon treatment plan or office procedure. [/quote]

What the dr perceives as rude is a judgement call. Or is it the pt appears threatening because they’re knowledgeable? So a doctor can say a patient is rude and get rid of them when that may not be the case at all. 
I went to numerous specialist with a life-threatening condition and was consistently treated poorly and was told I was a problem and not to come back. I came to find out. I had a very rare condition that there is no research on And it was “ the worst thing you could walk through the door with”. This was told to me by a friend who is in the same field. [/quote]

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