Re: 3 weeks post pvp frequency/urgency problems

Rich256 wrote:
Rich256 wrote:
Rich256 wrote:
Pete wrote:
Rich256 wrote:
Pete wrote:
steve wrote:
Thanks. Temujin. Sounds a lot like where I am now. I would have
just appreciated a little more explanation and context from my
uro. Steve
Steve...that is just one more reason why I don't like doctors. Hope
you improve soon.

Pete


The good ones are too busy. If they take time it comes out of
their paycheck and they will have to drop some patients. My wife
just heard about a really good doctor. Called and was informed
that she is not taking any new patients.

Most will spend some time but they rarely will take the time to go
into great detail. If you want more you would have to offer to
pay him his going rate for extra time to explain.

That would be absurd Rich, I hope you are not serious [remember we
are usually on the same page :-)]. Any friggen doctor who doesn't
explain things properly shouldn't be practicing medicine. I told
you I hate the bastards and their prima donna attitudes. I would
bet my house that doctor Sancha isn't like that. Remember I have
been to 75 doctors in my life, and the vast majority of them are
assholes, and not one could hold a candle to Dr. Sancha.

Anyway I have a pretty good memory, and I believe it was you who
told the story (many months ago) about the young lady doctor who
cried because she couldn't spend more time with her patients (and
I talked about the TV show Marcus Welby), and you also talked
about some old home town doctor (who you could talk to like a real
friend when you visited him years later). I think it was you for
at least one of those items, if not both.

Anyway, sure things have changed in this dog eat dog, capitalistic
world, but please don't imply that Steve's doctor did not have to
explain things in more detail, unless Steve paid him an extra fee
(so to speak). That is unadulterated bull*** IMO :-) ...Pete


Your insurance won't
cover that.


Not in line here. I have only met one doctor I didn't like and
didn't trust. Now days they are not like the old country doctor
and have time to sit down and chat but I never found one that
didn't explain the problem and what they were going to do about it.
But what I am saying is that they are not going to spend the time
to sit down and talk for an hour and give me a long medical
explanation about the details. Not when their schedule usually
requires seeing a patient every ten minutes. That is up to you to
research if you are that interested. Much like everyone here is
doing. They got a lot of expensive equipment (PVP for example)
to pay for. Not like 50 years ago when they bought an examination
table and a stethoscope and went into business.

Now the UROs have to come up with a million or so more to pay for
the new PVP machine. They gotta see a lot of 10 minute appointments
(that's all your insurance company will pay for) to pay for that as
well as their rent and malpractice insurance.

You can see why they don't really want us Medicare patients either.
I see the bills come in where the Dr. says that will be $50. Medicare
says here is $20, take it or leave it.


I need to add that I have met doctors that I thought were not totally
competent but I think they were doing as good as can be expected. It's
like picking a mechanic to work on your car. Remember the old
question? What do you call the guy who graduates at the bottom of
the class in Medical School? Ans: Doctor.

However, even if he is at the bottom of the class he might be a very
good doctor with a lot of insight to what is happening instead of
memory of what he read. I have seen that with engineers. We hired
a guy who was absolutely brilliant. Top of the class and all. Problem
was he couldn't build anything. Everything was by the book.
Still another thought. Where are your doctors from? One of those "in
your face" eastern schools:-) Mine are all Friendly Westerners. URO
is from Texas.

Come Rich...Doctors come from all over the world and half the doctors in the
U.S. are from Pakistan, India and yes even Iraq. It is sickening. They go
to medical school over in their country, then come over here to do there
residency and get rich.


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