Posted on 09/01/2023 8:50:21 AM PDT by george76
I just don't want this to happen to anyone else
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Traci Parker left Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego on Tuesday after an eight-day stay. She was forced to undergo surgery for a severe infection after what should have been a routine dental visit.
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her doctor didn't listen to her concerns.
"It's been really hard on me," Parker said. "If I had not gotten treated when I did, I could have gotten septic."
Her ordeal started back on August 3 when she went in for the first of two appointments to get a crown. She was in pain after her appointment, she said. It continued to worsen as the days passed.
“I called the following week, the 16th, and said my pain is getting worse. I feel like it's infected. I feel like there's something else going on besides just crown pain and she said you probably just need a bite adjustment,” .
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"I asked that dentist, 'also can I please maybe get some antibiotics, I feel like there's something else going on,' [but] she declined and gave me some Tylenol cream instead. But then by that Sunday the pain was so bad that my entire face hurt," Parker said.
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Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, told CBS 8 Parker's story is not uncommon.
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Parker, who has a background in nursing, hopes her story will not only help other patients who feel unheard, but also serve as a reminder to physicians.
"I just urge physicians and dentists to listen to their patients when they think there’s something else going on. Listen to their patients because I shouldn’t be in this position just because I'm getting a crown put on," said Parker.
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“I’ve had to fire an excuse making do nothing surgeon.”
Yep, We had to fire one for wanting to do heart surgery that was not needed.
“Well at his age it is standard practice to just do it in case”. Exact words. Valve replacement.
No symptoms and no signs of build up issues on the echo. Second opinion was “healthiest heart ever seen in someone his age”. When Dad finally passed many years later from other ailments his heart didn’t get the message and would not let him go.
That “super heart specialist” has now lost his license to practice because Dad was not the only one. There were hundreds.
I have four kids in healthcare and they say this type of “business” is actually more common than most folks would think.
“regarding doctors.”
Sounds like you have been there too.
I inherited the surgeon in question right after the one who operated on me a few months before died unexpectedly. The guy was in the same practice and supposedly one of the best around. I bought into that.
After the second visit he seemed to have something against me. I never bothered him or the office, went through every test and passed. The next visit, change of plans. It seemed like he was making it up as he went along.
My last visit was the last straw. His sage medical wisdom was loose 40 pounds in a little over a month. He said he did with a smirk.
Everyone in medical I saw during those months all said that’s not right or looked at me surprised.
Through some Facebook contacts of a relative, I got a line on someone willing to play ball.
One stop shopping for exam and schedule.
“went through every test and passed. The next visit, change of plans. It seemed like he was making it up as he went along.”
Yep, sounds just like this doctor we dealt with.
My doctor is controlled by the local medical association and the insurance companies. It’s not about the patient anymore.
“My doctor is controlled by the local medical association and the insurance companies. It’s not about the patient anymore.”
You are right on the money with this. It is the whole system from the top down.
Had a friend who needed an important preventative heart surgery. The insurance company would not cover it “yet” because it had not caused any serious issues yet. But it could have made him drop dead at any minute.
He and his doctor had to secretly make an appointment in the emergency room with false symptoms to do the surgery because then the insurance had to cover it whether they liked it or not.
Pretty sad when they force patients and doctors to be dishonest to actually practice preventative medicine and extend life.
#9 I had a upper back tooth that had a amalgam filling for many years. I kept getting pain there some years later and told the dentist about it and he took x-rays and said the metal was not near any root, no crack in the tooth.
I asked that it be taken out and he said I would need a crown. I said fine and I have had no pain since there. It cost at that time was $500. Today a crown is over a $1,000 now.
During Covid, my doctor was mostly taken over by the local medical association that provides her office. She has to follow all of the Medicare rules even if you have private insurance.
My granddaughter is in medical school to be a Physical Therapist and she said that ALL insurance is governed by Medicare rules even if you are young. She said doctors do that to keep from getting sideways with the government.
Her plan is to be in private practice (Physical Therapist) as an independent PT that doesn’t take insurance so that she can treat her patients and do what is best for them and do what she took a vow to do instead of what the government says they can do.
My sister doesn’t have health insurance but she has one of these doctors. She pays for her own lab tests and treatments and said it’s actually cheaper without insurance interference. Most doctors that are all wrapped up in government rules won’t even see a person without insurance.
Her advice is to find a doctor that will treat you without insurance, even if you have it, so that they can treat YOU instead of pleasing the government. She says that major medical insurance is necessary for hospitalizations and the really expensive treatments, but you get better care with a doctor that isn’t all wrapped up in government rules put forth by people that have never seen you and don’t know you.
That is my plan but right now all of those doctors are a fair drive from me and with a partly bed bound husband, it’s hard for me to leave for long. I’m working on it though. My current doctor is 10 minutes away. It’s a mess.
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