As a patient, you don't have to be in the military with their clear ranks to feel that you are secondary to the MD's interests and priorities and to be treated as such.
I had a recent exam experience with an MD Ashley in the Stanford Sports Cardiology department that was extremely negative.
I was made to wait a full 1 hour and 45 minutes before the MD appeared in the exam room! He claimed that he had an "emergency".
Then, after waiting 9 months to see this specialist on the recommendation of others, with no examination and based solely on what his PA told him and that I subsequently repeated for him, he proceeded to tell me that the problem I was describing was a figment of my imagination and I really did not have the problem I was there to see him about (intermittent shortness of breath, primarily under exercise).
The MD was quite stubborn about holding onto this diagnosis. Myself, I was almost speechless and did not know what to say that would be civil. Subsequently, I realized that this was clearly a GASLIGHT diagnosis, something that I had heard about from others but had never experienced myself.
Stay away from this department/MD if you don't value being treated rudely, disrespectfully and arrogantly.
Regarding the "2.6%" more effort finding - that seems to me to be within a typical margin of error.
However,the later finding of 14% less hospitalizations suggests something real is happening.
So how do I fool my doctor into thinking that I am someone important?
As a patient, you don't have to be in the military with their clear ranks to feel that you are secondary to the MD's interests and priorities and to be treated as such.
I had a recent exam experience with an MD Ashley in the Stanford Sports Cardiology department that was extremely negative.
I was made to wait a full 1 hour and 45 minutes before the MD appeared in the exam room! He claimed that he had an "emergency".
Then, after waiting 9 months to see this specialist on the recommendation of others, with no examination and based solely on what his PA told him and that I subsequently repeated for him, he proceeded to tell me that the problem I was describing was a figment of my imagination and I really did not have the problem I was there to see him about (intermittent shortness of breath, primarily under exercise).
The MD was quite stubborn about holding onto this diagnosis. Myself, I was almost speechless and did not know what to say that would be civil. Subsequently, I realized that this was clearly a GASLIGHT diagnosis, something that I had heard about from others but had never experienced myself.
Stay away from this department/MD if you don't value being treated rudely, disrespectfully and arrogantly.