To everyone!

[hbstar6881]

I've been reading alot of your posts and I have noticed that so many of you all leave your physician appointments confused and upset with lack of answers.  I just want to say to you all that if you feel this way you should find another physician because this is supposed to be a special time and you should be getting more information.  I'm truly ashamed of some of these doctors.  I just recently went through the same thing with a crazy doctor and his hateful, unhelpful staff.  I'm a nurse and the doctors I work with just don't treat patients this way.  I for one and hoping for the best in all your situations and am glad to help in any way possible and im very sorry about the way some of you have been treated.

[cmoretti]

Yep, I have learned early on that I am in charge of my body and health care NOT my doctor. My doctor is there to educate me and allow me to make the best choices for me not to just blatantly tell me to take this and walk out. If I ever feel like my doctor isn't answering my questions (sometimes it requires them describing in detail) then I will never see them again. I am shocked at the number of people that see a doctor, think their word is like the word of god, take medications that they don't even know what they are for or what they have! If I wasn't informed, I would be dead right now by listening to what doctors wanted me to do. It was my research and my decisions that have got me where I am today and that is one right I will never compromise.

[JoyRenee]

AMEN! I've changed my doctors around MANY times. Some nurses give me grief for it but I don't care. It is MY care that I am paying for!

[therese101]

i agree, i have changed my OB as the care i received with the first one was ridiculous, i am alot happier now as my new one takes the time to make sure everything is ok and i have all my questions answered,

[megmil]

I agree, there have been so many things posted lately about people who just don't get the care they need. With some people though, I think they maybe just don't ask their doctors. I have a problem where the doctor asks if I have questions and can't think of any then get home and have so many. A good wood of advice, and I do this with each appointment. I write down any questions I have between my appointments to ask the doctor about and just hand the paper to my doctor to read through. It's been a real help. If I leave her office with some new advice about my pregnancy and can't think of questions, I write them down as they come to me then call the doctor the next day and ask the nurse or if it's not urgent I wait til my next appointment. I have an appointment tomarrow actually and need to get my thoughts together and write down anything I'm concerned about. Just some quick advice though, but if you're doctor is not giving you the advice you're seeking or, like another person's post I read a while back about her doctor just being real rude and not listening to her, switch doctors.