Has this happened to you?

So I'm 24 and I got really sick following my diagnosis, and the nearest hospital wasn't one I had an up to date chart at. I wrote on the paperwork that I had CHF, and eventually saw a doctor.  She asked me "So what makes you think you have heart failure?" I just said "I was diagnosed about a month ago with an ejection fraction of 15" of course the doc was shocked but it didn't me til she left and my mom (who was there the whole time) started going off that there was anything weird  about what the doc had said.  Mom had this flabbergasted look on her face like 'how dare she assume  my child's a hypercondriac!" She was so mad.

It turned out I had bronchitis, but what I want to know is has this happened to any of you? 

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Weird Docs

by DAVID H - 2018-07-23 22:40:52

I haven't had an experience I can recall similar to yours BUT, I recall this event:  I had been experiencing tiredness, and fatigue so, I went and had a session with a new Doc. An "adult Medicine" Doc.  He performed no checks or any real analysis.  He just said: "You're retired. You have no place you must be. Stay in bed as long as you like and arise when you finally feel like doing so."

Unbelievable!

by AgentX86 - 2018-07-23 23:42:59

Fire them all!  Then write exactly why you did so when they send you the satisfaction survey (at least the hospital I use sens them out after each time I'm there - no matter how inconsequential the reason).

About the worst I had was a GP who doodled the entire time we were talking. Annoying as all hell but nothing like the examples above.

You know you're wired when...

You have a 25 year mortgage on your device.

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It may be the first time we've felt a normal heart rhythm in a long time, so of course it seems too fast and too strong.