Who was the most lazy, incompetent, unprofessional, or creepy doctor you ever had?

Who was the most lazy, incompetent, unprofessional, or creepy doctor you ever had?

And how did you deal with them?

Who was the most lazy, incompetent, unprofessional, or creepy doctor you ever had?

I'll go with incompetent.

I had a pneumologist once when I was in university, who diagnosed me as having tuberculosis. The yearly radiology done by the university showed I had a mass in one lung and I ended up seeing an elderly specialist. I was treated with antibiotics for 2 years and then when nothing changed, it was then diagnosed as a benign cyst.

Only a few years later it turned out to be a tumor, luckily benign (a teratoma, a sort of stem cell cancer present at birth already).

After the TB was found to be a wrong diagnosis, I never saw him again. But it ultimately cost me a whole damn lung when years later I started coughing up blood and went to the hospital (yes while driving and spitting out the window). Two days later an operation and a lung less.

Ah yes, and a cherry on top: when they sent a rush tissue sample to the lab during the surgery to determine what sort of tumor it was, it was incorrectly diagnosed. The surgeons told my wife I wasn't going to leave the hospital.

A week later, a more leisurely and careful tissue diagnosis was performed and it turned out to be benign.

I'd love to doxx him, but I won't.

I went to a liver specialist who weight-shamed me, insisting my liver issues were all due to my obesity. He told me to eat half as much and exercise twice as much--without any inquiries or medical history about my eating and exercise habits. On that day, following his orders would have meant eating half an apple and speed-walking ten miles instead of a whole apple and five.

Many of his staff were overweight, and some time later I saw a photograph of him and his wife at a fundraising gala. She was bigger than I was.

I found myself another liver specialist.

I will go with lazy and incompetent. I went to the ER after fainting twice while trying to put on my tennis shoes. I had a sore / stiff neck and weakness / numbness on the outer portion of my right hand. The ER doc never examined me, told me I had a muscle spasm, asked me if I wanted a “work excuse”, and intimated I was a “”drug seeker”.

I left without any meds or the work excuse. A friend got me an appointment with a neurosurgeon the next day who diagnosed a swollen and inflamed cervical disc and prescribed the appropriate treatment. I had a previously scheduled primary care visit the following week and my doc was the head of the hospital’s medica staff at the time. That ER doc was put on probation for the rest of the year.

I’ll go with unprofessional, arrogant and incompetent. Neurosurgeon told us he was the “top-gun” in the OR - better that the other “boob” who previously took 11 hours to (successfully) complete surgery. This guy completed a similar surgery in four hours and left his patient paralyzed on the left side. Later complained about how this wasn’t good for his reputation, and threatened to Sue me when I sent a letter to the state medical review board.

A real neurofuctard!!

Incompetent. Doctor gave me a script for Tramadol to relieve pain. He never checked its interactions with other drugs. I developed epilepsy at an older age and take anti seizure medication, Had a blood test shortly after receiving Tramadol prescription for the seizure medication level. I got a call from the lab at 9:30 that night. Seizure medication off the charts, stop taking immediately. Saw my neurologist who asked any new drugs? yes Tramadol. What? Who gave you that? You can not take tramadol it either lowers your seizure medication to zero or blows it off the charts as happened with you. The man needs to go back to medical school were the exact words of the neurologist. The doctor is still at my local health center but I refuse to see him every time they say he has an opening. Nope too careless.

Who was the most lazy, incompetent, unprofessional, or creepy doctor you ever had?

And how did you deal with them?

Incompetent and unprofessional is my story.

I got a busy surgeon last October, when I broke both of my arms. I did not know about the 8:30 appointment, it takes almost an hour to get to the city, so had a frantic rush to get to a 2 hour later appointment. But he only had 20 or so minutes because he had surgeries to get to. The whole appointment was rushed.

He was incompetent in that he didn't clearly explain the extent of my break with my radius. To the point we cancelled the surgery because it sounded like a simple break. Unprofessional in that he had no one else to answer any questions we might have had, but who knows what to ask in that instant.

The office never called back to ask why we cancelled. So if I hadn't had a follow up, pre-surgery, appointment already on the schedule I would not have known how bad my break was. Nor what to do with the ER plaster cast I had on.