41 Secrets Your Doctor Would Never Share

I like the "please don't answer your cell phone during a visit" one. I like what I see on this website, and it is great. I want everyone to read this article.

The "We're Impatient" section of this is atrocious. The whining! You've had a tough day dealing with the needily chronically ill and annoyingly dying? Y'all evidently have no idea what it's like to be on the other side (the PAYING side) of the doctor-patient relationship. You say many doctors haven't been to see one themselves in a long time? Well, I highly recommend it. And do it without using your title and don't let on that your a medical professional. I think you would learn tons.

As someone who writes Practice Management Systems I deal with doctors offices on a daily basis. When the PMS acts up, they call me. They don't want to hear that it could be user error, or firewall or hardware issues, or problems with the system at the payers end. They want the PMS up and they want it up NOW!!! Sorry, doc. It could be any one of a thousand things. It's going to take time and testing to figure it out and BTW, I'm charging you for every second, even if I never figure it out.

In response to Irate patient(08/31/2009), when a doctor recommends that you have an MRI, I am sure that there is a good reason for it. Or are they just recommending it for fun? Because we have unlimited resources? Besides, MRI is completely safe, it is not like x-ray where there is risk of exposure to radiation. There is no such risk in MRI, as far as I know. So please, just let them do their job. They are just trying to help!

Douglas Farrago, MD, editor, Placebo Journal Your attitude is atrocious. Perhaps it would be better for your patients if you did quit.

I went to ER severe pain in my side after playing golf. I was checked for BP, Urine analysis, and finally physical body inspection. I told them I had probably hurt myself swinging wrong and felt good before playing. I was put on a major pain killer. WBC came back normal. I was told I needed an MRI because I most likely had a kidney stone! They tried, twice while I was in a daze from the drug to get me to sign for the MRI! Then the doctor came in and again asked me to have MRI. I refused

I realize that doctors are just people, too. While I don't expect perfection, I do expect to be treated as a partner in my own care--and to be listened to when I ask a question. Doctors have a challenging job, but please remember that you have a people job, first and foremost; and remember what the trust invested in you means.

Now a days doctors loss(?) capability to detect the disease immediately and recommend various tests done by their chosen diagnostic centers. Most of which ultimately results useless.Of course patients experience a bitter taste to pay for those tests.If you protest -you face inhuman suffering. So keep mum and rejoice at the prodigious bills as well as inhuman attitude.

Your hundred dollar breakdown is a dream. Last time my adult daughter (uninsured) had to see a doctor for a sore throat it cost her $250! Not counting the cost of a prescription. Where do you live, we want to move there.

I'd rather die than deal with doctors.