A Visit to the Dermatologist
While not all dermatologists are like the experience sited below, it is worth noting that the experience below is not uncommonally reported. The experience is reported in a rosacea support group and maybe you can relate to the experience. It is reported by Kat Hummel on April 26, 2006 and it is posted here for posterity just in case yahoo groups folds up:
Kat Hummel's Visit to the Dermatologist
Hi, somewhat new to the group.
So today I go to the dermotologist and he was very arrogant and made
me cry. I told him I wanted to try something new for my rosacea. I
had two IPL treatments performed by him in the past with little
results. I told him I can't afford that treatment anymore. He asked
me if he was my banker and that he could only prescribe a method and
has nothing to do with my finiacial situation. Which is true, but he
was very rude.
Then he asked me why I was there if I couldn't afford
it. I was shocked. I started to tell him what has and hasn't worked
for me in the past and what I might want to try. He then asked me if
I was a doctor. And asked me not to tell him how to do his job. This
is not what I was trying to do at all, I was just trying to give him
some history on myself. So, being the sensitive person I am I started
to tear up. He told me I needed to be treated for rosacea and
anxiety.
I told him as a matter of fact when I have a flare-up it
causes me to have anxiety, but I was on meds. for anxiety in the past
and it didn't help me. He then said something along the lines that it
was not his problem, he is not my pyschologist. Well, then the water
works started. I couldn't stop crying. He probably thought I was
having an anxiety attack, but the truth is I never had someone
professional be that down right mean to me in my life.
He almost made
me leave b/c I wasn't a good candidate to be treated from him. I
think he finally felt bad I was crying and threw prescriptions my way
and tried to push me out of the office. I didn't say anything in fear
of losing it, but I wanted to yell get the hell off your high horse.
What gives you the right to talk to me like that. I've been having a
rough couple of weeks, but today I feel like I've hit rock bottom. I
wanted to see if anyone else has had experience with a no-it-all,
down right nasty doctor besides me? Thanks for letting me vent. Source
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