Everyone deserves to be treated with respect. Chronic pain is hard enough to deal with. There are some people that abuse the clinics/doctors involved that have made it difficult for others. So, then doctors become skeptical of everyone because of those that were dishonest with them. But the specialty of pain management would hopefully be empathetic to the chronic pain someone suffers requiring medication, right? Id' hope so. Anyway, sorry you have encountered less than kind or professional people. And honestly, not to belittle anyone but the girl who checks people into the office and pulls their file really shouldn't have an opinion about patients. I would guess they are just kind of job dissatisfied and take it out on patients more so than judging patients. Does that make sense?