Have you been bullied by health professionals?

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I started seeing this orthopedic Dr. in 2017. I saw her again in 2020 and again 2022. In 2022 when she found out that my pain Dr had added more meds when I brought up my pain and the fact I had gotten the Ankolosing Spondylitis gene, etc and when she found what I was now on, she left the room and never came back in. She sat up my appt for my 3rd SI ablation and I noticed I didn't have to jump thru all those hoops to get a new MRI! some things happened and long story short, the next time i had a virtual appt and she raised her voice at me and told me my spine didn't look that bad for someone my age and when i returned to her practice that she would give me injections up and down my spine, when she Knew and had told me back in 2017 injections didn't work for me. I was stunned. I canceled the nerve ablation and really needed it! I was stunned and disheartened! It was the worst I've ever been treated.

Re: medical professional bullying chronic pain patient

I am a patient at my county mental health facility. I have migraines about 20 days of each month. I am 72, and I've had migraines since I was 12. I do my best, but sometimes it is impossible to keep an appointment if I if my pain level is very high. My mental health case worker doesn't understand this. In a very sarcastic tone, she said, "You seem to have a problem with this, don't you?" I was shocked and crushed. I said, Yes, I've had a problem for 60 years." I went home crying. I finally called a superior and asked for a different case worker.

I didn't need to be treated like a child who had misbehaved. It was demeaning. I requested mental health services because I have serious depression that accompanies chronic pain. The case worker made it worse for me by giving me guilt and low self-esteem.

Yes after I suffered my fourth seizure on September 22, 2023., I spent the night in the hospital. They had a neurologist see me he and he said no driving for six months. When I questioned him about this he preceded to ask me how I would feel if I had seizure while driving. He didn't need to do this. I have been under a neuroligist since I suffered my last seizure in Nov. 2019.

I have Medical PTSD. I have to take my sister with me to appointments where I see new doctors because my anxiety is so bad that I cannot focus. I have feelings of panic and sheer terror being in the room with a new physician. Just trying to explain this condition I have had doctors roll their eyes or make some smart comment about how ptsd is just a made up excuse to not deal with anything.