DEAR DR. GOTT:
In response to the person that woke up deaf after a hysterectomy, I feel you are totally WRONG. This individual has obviously had ear problems before and knows what will correct the hearing loss. Why should any patient go through three office visits which cost about $100 a visit just to train a physician? Did the physician review her chart before forcing her to come back repeatedly for three visits? The physician whom we pay for medical advice should not be using his patients as testing grounds or beta testing at our expense. If he didn’t know what the problem was he should have said so and recommended an ENT physician immediately instead of milking patients or their insurance companies for unnecessary visits. I feel this physician should be reported and practice should be reviewed. I am so frustrated with incompetent doctors.
DEAR READER:
I have to disagree. If you had looked more closely at the letter, you would have noticed that the patient claims to have gone back repeatedly because she was not receiving the answer she wanted rather than because she had to. She was so convinced that the penicillin shot would work, she likely did not listen to the physician.
I am confident that this physician tried to recommend other options. Because the writer was so upset that she wasn’t given what she wanted, when she wanted it, she failed to say what, if anything, her primary care physician recommended. As far as telling her to see an ENT, he did, at least in his letter to her and most likely tried to refer her during her repeated office trips.
You state that this physician used the patient has a testing ground. I would like to know how you came to this conclusion based on her letter since she says nothing about testing or other treatments. Please read more thoroughly and rationally before spouting off about incompetent doctors and patients being used as test subjects.
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