Anonymous
10/05/2025 06:06
Subject: Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Is the depression screening that everyone is talking about the extra paper they have at intake? That even dentists have now?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:44
Subject: Re:Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know times are tough for doctors but scamming patients is a good way to lose clients. I have 5 kids - when their pediatrician tried to charge us extra during covid for a shot, we walked. My kids are sick all the time - for the extra $25 a shot, they lost thousands in business.
My internist gouged me and my kids post covid. She's famous for repeating herself 1000 times to lengthen the visits. A simple visit for me is over a$1000 and my insurance only reimburses a tiny amount because she's so far over the usual and customary. Both my kids had post covid complications and we were in her office far too much. The amount we paid out of pocket is astronomical. I've been on and off glps for over a year and when my kids were in her office all the time, she would give me prescriptions for a years worth of glps. Now that my kids and I arent there, she changed her opinion and I have to go every month and pay $600 for her to give me another month's prescription. I've already found a new online doctor to take this over.
You sound like a willing participant to that scam. Why didn't you find a real doctor?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:41
Subject: Re:Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Anonymous wrote:I know times are tough for doctors but scamming patients is a good way to lose clients. I have 5 kids - when their pediatrician tried to charge us extra during covid for a shot, we walked. My kids are sick all the time - for the extra $25 a shot, they lost thousands in business.
My internist gouged me and my kids post covid. She's famous for repeating herself 1000 times to lengthen the visits. A simple visit for me is over a$1000 and my insurance only reimburses a tiny amount because she's so far over the usual and customary. Both my kids had post covid complications and we were in her office far too much. The amount we paid out of pocket is astronomical. I've been on and off glps for over a year and when my kids were in her office all the time, she would give me prescriptions for a years worth of glps. Now that my kids and I arent there, she changed her opinion and I have to go every month and pay $600 for her to give me another month's prescription. I've already found a new online doctor to take this over.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:35
Subject: Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Take a recorder and inform the doctor that you will be recording your session.
I will drop you as my patient. Good luck finding another.
Jerk. Depending upon the state the patient is in, you can do it without the doctor knowing.
Any doctor pulling this crap is a slime bucket.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 12:17
Subject: Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Take a recorder and inform the doctor that you will be recording your session.
I will drop you as my patient. Good luck finding another.
Then you will lose all your patients your dinosaur. It’s 2025. It’s perfectly normal for patient’s to notify their doctors that they will be using voice recordings in order to refer to later after the appointments. Most patients are stressed at appointments so having a recording helps take the pressure of of remembering doctors instructions.
DP.
And there are waiting lists a mile long for just about all offices.
Yes, this is fine for a patient to do this, and make it clear. Yes, it is fine for the physician not to participate. Both have autonomy in this. If this therapeutic relationship is not a good fit for either of them, then either can make the call that it isn't working.
All of this is fine. Find the place that works for you.
Anonymous
10/02/2025 22:15
Subject: Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Take a recorder and inform the doctor that you will be recording your session.
I will drop you as my patient. Good luck finding another.
My cardiologist records our visits, why can’t a patient?
In Virginia, you don't need to ask. In Maryland, you don't need to ask if the doctor is already recording.
Anonymous
10/02/2025 22:14
Subject: Charged because physician asked me a question during my physical
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Take a recorder and inform the doctor that you will be recording your session.
I will drop you as my patient. Good luck finding another.
I'm sure the pp will put up a sign on the wall saying the doctor consents to the recording by going ahead with the appointment. Better look around.
Of course, Virginia is a one party consent state, so you don't even need consent. And Maryland's only applies when there's a reasonable expectation of privacy, which wouldn't apply if the doctor is already recording it for notes.
There is a reasonable expectation of privacy in a doctors exam room. Sorry.
Not if you're already recording for the note taking services.