wrongful treatment of a patient, medical or ethical

What is the name of your state? Indiana,

I'm a cancer patient not long to live month?year?,
my appointment with a Doctor was at 2m I arrived at 2:30 because of traffic, the nurse called me to the examing room it's 3m I sat in the room until 4m I was getting sleepy so I feel asleep I was awoke by the doctor entering the room it was 5:30pm the doctor begain asking how I was then he started to accuse me of showing up for the 'app't late after 5:25pm everyone already went home, and as he was stateing this very loudly he started getting agrressive by waveing his arms around wildly slaping his papers on the table he started to get up yelling at me then I was scared and he upset me so much buy acting this way for days. after traveling two 'hr' to get there to get yelled at and called a lier he only listened to my heart and lungs and ended by telling me he gets paid for research only not for these visits t made me feel money was more important than my life.

[enjay]

I'm sorry you were treated that way. It was wrong. Unfortunately, many people are reall a$$holes. Was this for a clinical trial? Many researchers have no bedside manner whatsoever.

Hi,
it was not a trial treatment, it was a follow up check-up But does the doctor have any right to yell at his patient in a manner or accuse him/her of lieing and or displaying a manner or anger that terrorizes or actually scares the patient from going back in which putting his/her health or life at a high risk and adding to the fear by telling the paient that he only gets paid for the research he does not the appointments that last 15 min, and then when you do try a cancer drug and your half way through it and he don't evaluate your condition as to x-ray or MRI to calculate how the drug was working or not and by looking at you accross the room tells you that you will not be taking it any more and not one test to see (and it was working) tells you when you get to your home town have your doctor do the x-rays and MRI and to add to it after two years of asking to change my medication befor going home he says they will take care of it instead of starting me on it before my travel?

Hi Matthew. The behavior you described coming from this doc is unacceptable and (as the other writer said) just "as* holey" -- period. Do you know how to write an effective, scathing letter? If so, or if you want to know how, and if you feel like doing it, and if you can do it within a few days, here's some suggestions on "how to". Call the medical facility where this doctor saw you and ask to speak to the manager, to the administrator (or if it's a great big place), ask to speak to the facility's head office (the President's office). "Risk Management Department" is a good word to throw out, too. Once you get through to the head person of this facility, tell them who you are, tell them you were a patient of this doctor, and tell them that you are in the process of preparing a letter regarding the treatment you received from Dr. so and so and that you would like to know what, if any boards he serves on and the name of the chairman of those boards (or board). Also ask the name of the CEO or the president (or if it's a small operation -- the name of the manager or administrator). Get full names and addresses. Also ask for suggestions on where your letter should be sent to receive the most attention.

Type the letter, state that facts, voice your complaints and dissatisfaction with the treatment you received from this doctor, keep it to one page if you can, and in the end thank them for their attention to the situation. Make sure the letter appears professional (i.e. put your return address at the top, then put the date, then put the address of who the letter is going to, put dear so and so, and end it with “Sincerely yours, and put your name. Put the cc’s (just their name and titles) under your name. Send the original to whoever it’s addressed to, and send copies to all the ones you are sending cc’s to.

In a separate letter, you can write the Indiana Board of Medicine (url below) and advise them that you want them to be aware of the recent correspondence you have sent out regarding Dr. so and so and that you are including a copy of a letter that explains the situation and his conduct. Thank them, too, for their attention to it.

In a few weeks from this (if you want to see what, if anything, anyone did about it), contact everyone you sent a copy to and say "“Hi, my name is so and so, and I recently wrote a letter regarding Dr. so and so", etc. etc. Call the Indiana Board and follow up, too. Get their suggestions.

Doing a letter will do one of two things for you. It will either piss you off royally again that no one seems to care about it and no one can tell you what, if anything will be done about it, or -- you may be pleasantly surprised to find that whoever you DID correspond with is sympathetic to your situation and seems to be bending over backwards to appease and please you.

With the info you've given here, that’s the best I can advise you. Attempt to light a fire under someone’s ass is my advice when you’ve been treated with such disrespect from the medical community. Then follow it up. Have a voice in your care.

Best of luck to you. I hope you will receive more compassionate and respectful treatment from here on out.

hmmbrdzz

Oh..... here’s Indiana’s Medical Board. You can contact them via this web page, too.

[url]http://www.in.gov/hpb/[/url]

Matthew: You do not sound as if you will be able to follow the advice given you so far. The advice has been good and you should do something about that jerk. Ask a friend or perhaps if you have one your social worker or helper, to write a letter for you. I doubt seriously that if you try to write a complaint yourself that it will do any good. The letter must be properly written or it will not be read.
Your experience is not unusual. The reason that clown is in research is because someone has told him his social strengths are zilch. He is at fault and his licensing board must be told that he is inadequate.

Dear Mr.Schroder,& TO THE Senior MEMBER,

I would like to thank you for the Information that you gave to me and if I have trouble in writing these letters I hope that I can write to you for advice to make sure it is as formal and as business like to state my complaint, thank you again for your help and support.


Matthew

Sure thing Matthew. Hang in there.

hmmbrdzz