50 Of The Most Infuriating Things Patients Came Across At The Doctor’s Office

Wow, that's total bullshite! I've never heard of an office doing that before.

We all spend so much time waiting around in offices. I think we should be compensated for our lost time. Doctors think they are the only ones whose time is valuable. What gaul.

I was checking into my doctors and the employee kept talking and talking. A nurse came out and told me I was late and the doctor wouldn't see me. The employee talked so much it was her fault.

Like I've never waited for over an hour in a doctor's office.

I had an appointment for an eye exam get canceled because I didn't pick up the phone to "confirm" my appointment when they called me. I NEVER pick up calls to confirm appointments and - prior to this - had never been canceled by anyone else. So I show up to the appointment and - upon checking in - am told that I'll need to reschedule as I've been "canceled" because I "didn't confirm." ...I'm sorry... I thought that MAKING THIS APPOINTMENT WAS CONFIRMATION THAT I WOULD BE HERE. 🤬

WTF??? That's insane!

Sorry if im not correct. But most of these seem to be American

This sounds like a billing error, sucks that you have to take time to dispute it. I worked in medical billing and someone once accidentally entered a pair of crutches as a rental instead of a purchase. We proceeded to rent someone crutches for 6 years but because the change was just a few dollars, our system always wrote it off, until someone failed to - customer got a bill and was very confused.

Euhm .... It's says 1.71 and then -4.16 but for some reason they added that to each other. Should 1.71 - 4.16. So they owe you 2.45

I'm fairly certain this qualifies as fraud in some states.

Most of these seem to be about the doctor's OFFICE messing things up.

Doctor’s office once called me to cancel my appointment as I was entering their building. It was just for an injection administered by a nurse, who was sick and had to go home. The receptionist told me since I’m there already just wait and she will find someone to give me the injection. She found a doctor to do it. Most painful injection ever.

I had that happen with my dermatologist’s office. The last time I saw him, he said that as long as things remained unchanged, I wouldn’t need to see him for another year, and I scheduled that appointment before leaving the office. He said that when I needed refills, to just call the office and ask. When I did so about six months later, the response was, “You need to schedule an appointment before we can give you this refill.” I had to explain that I already *had* my next appointment scheduled to three different people before one of them actually looked at my chart and saw that he had noted exactly what he had told me, both about the appointment and the refills. So I got my refills. The next day, they texted me saying they had sent over refills to cover the six months remaining before my next appointment. They didn’t. They gave me only three months’ worth. So I’m expecting to have to go through this all over in a month, when the current script runs out. 🤦‍♀️

They should have sent that in for you since they cancelled the appointment an hour before. It sounds like either the provider was pick or had some type of emergency. In other cases there are laws dealing with sending in scripts and when the last appt was or what kind of med it is.

Amazing how often ovarian cancer is dismissed as "something" else.

My bf swelling of the head (to double it's size) and chronic pain in the pelvis were dismissed as: "You're young, take a bunch of pain meds" (without further examination) and then: "Oh, you must be allergic to said pain medication!" It was stage 4 cancer. The head swoll up because the tumor restricted bloodflow from the head. A medical emergency that needs to be fixed in 24 hours (ya know, potential stroke, brain bleeds...). He was left this way for two weeks, even tough we pleaded to look into this. Finally after argueing and multiple visits to different doctors, we met one that believed us that something was horribly wrong (portruding, thick blood vessels all around the head). He was admitted within one day, tests were run, and then, thank god, we were referred to a big a*s university clinic. They fixed the head, then found metastasis on the pelvis and ribcage and started chemo and radiation. My bf is basically a lottery winner, his chances of sirvival were so small.

Her doctors were incompetent a******s. I hope she survived :<

This happened to me when I was 17, but I was the one who just thought I was getting fat. Other people thought I was pregnant and only told me that after I found out it was cancer. That was like 20 years ago

This happened to me. Just diagnosed in 2022. Everyone dismissed me. When I lost weight due to chemo my cardiologist congratulated me...

VA has some of the worst doctors ever I'm sure there are some good ones, but I've never seen any. I swear they hire the drs no one else will.

I was in the ER once for diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition I've had several times. The doctor came in and asked what was going on, and I explained my family was ill, that I'd caught an infection, and my system went down like dominos as a result. The doctor told me I'm wrong, he suspects I don't follow my medications properly. Five days later, the same doctor comes to my room and says "We looked at your blood work, and it seems your DKA was brought on by an infection, so we're starting antibiotics". I could've saved you some time there, Doc

That ain't Doctor House. House would actually know what's going on. That doc's an a$$.

Next time record the appointment.

VA mis-diagnosing at its best....a lot of it VA...

Oh hell no! No chance I'd have agreed to that.