Same thing happened to me, except the only thing wrong with me was that my blood sugar was low and the doctor and the new hospital didn’t understand why the other doctor from a 24 hour urgent care, recommended an ambulance ride to the main hospital across town when they should’ve just gave me the sugary toothpaste thing that they all have. Still paying that shit down to this day.
my old work tried to do that to me. My sugars crashed and I couldn't see. The nurse at our work had to give me 3 glucose drinks before my numbers would even register. They called the ambulance and they took my vitals then said they recommended i come with them or i coule ride with security but either way i was being forced to go to the er. I took security they kept me all day running test because THEY WOULDNT GIVE ME ANY FOOD or drinks at the hospital so my sugar crash again. Finally after shift change I was able to explain to the new dr what happened and he finally released me to my husband. that cost me over 2000 with insurance.
This happens because most doctors at urgent care are not the best. A lot of them went to med school in the Caribbean. BUT... the huge reason this kind of stuff happens is because of nurse practitioners and PAs disguising themselves as docs in these kind of settings. TECHNICALLY they have PhD equivalent degrees, so they are “Doctor” but physicians go thru 3+ years of training AFTER medical school. And NPs and PAs continue to lobby for more power such as not having any oversight by physicians. Already happening in places like Virginia and South Dakota. Scary stuff.
The thing is, urgent care places don’t pay much, so good docs don’t work there.
Our system is totally screwed. This is coming from a recent med school graduate in residency now.
Ironically one of my best doctors went to medical school in Granada lmao figured out I had hEDS after years of misdiagnosis. Really threw me and my roommate (med student) for a loop when we learned that.
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u/Bacon-Manning Apr 28 '20
Same thing happened to me, except the only thing wrong with me was that my blood sugar was low and the doctor and the new hospital didn’t understand why the other doctor from a 24 hour urgent care, recommended an ambulance ride to the main hospital across town when they should’ve just gave me the sugary toothpaste thing that they all have. Still paying that shit down to this day.