Doctors and appointment,

i would like to know if the doctor she have been with are specialist on ENT? the way i understand it as you have described hes not only an arrogant doctor but not a good one too! look for another i guess he dont deserved to be one. ..a doctor must always examine or let some tests before giving any prescriptions especially on ears or ADHD?(actually what is that mean?)

Oh how awful! I know my daughter was in awful pain when she had an ear infection. I can't believe the Dr wouldn't even look in her ears! I think if I had sat waiting for an hour and I would have insisted rather loudly if I had to. I took my daughter to the hospital one time because she was very sick. The Dr there looked in her nose and then her ears. He told us she had an ear infection and gave us a script and sent us home. Other than taking her temperture he did nothing else. I recieved a bill from the insurance company stating that we would have to pay a 'non emergency ER fee because an ear infection was not an emergency. I had to dispute that with proof that we went to the Dr. 2 days later because she was still sick and they found she had pneumonia! Had he bothered to do a full exam instead of just looking in her ears he would have found that out! She had to go in the hospital 3 days later because she was so sick.

I hate going to the doctors office. It is not fair that if you are 15 minutes late that you are bumped to the back of the line but they can be as late as they want! If I was the mother of the child with the ear ache I would have made the doctor look into her ear and if he didn't I would report him to the local medical board.

the dr. should have looked to see if there is an ear infection, which requires antibiotics, which the dr. has to prescribe! u should try to find a new dr.

I would go to a different doctor. He doesnt really seem to put that much effort into seeing his patients. And the fact that you had to sit there and wait so long makes it even worse. I would definitely look for a new doctor.

It can be that way. Insurance is a game. Who has an HMO. Who has a PPO. Who stays in network for treatment. Who goes outside of network? What is your office co-pay. Medicines too. Generic or brand name. It has become a numbers game. Its very sad. National healthcare? I'd give it a shot. Other countries do, and without complaint.

Even if you go to a big hospital where there are sev3eral doctors to see the patients, it is difficult to see a patient at exact time, unless the patient is in the state of emergency. That is because the questions put by the doctor to examine the patient's critical situation and the time the patient takes time to answer properly or improperly and to elicit the information from patient and some minitor tests carried out by doctor has no time limitation. But then they cannot give appointments with long intervals. That way they cannot see 2 or 3 patients in a day. My father-in-law is a doctor. They used to give a token for each patient and the number is announced and then only a patient can go inside. This is a better system than time-based appointment.

I totally agree with you. I think that is the common problem which people are facing nowadays whne they visit a doctor. They are not looking at patients properly. The doctors are running only after money.

The problem is with the appointment setter. They need to quit putting appointments so close together.