TheBanyanTree: Continuing Out of Darkness

[Laura Hicks]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Monique Colver
<monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:

> “No, you don’t understand,” I said, “I’m pretty sure I have a sinus
> infection.”
>
> “No, I don’t think so,” she said, in her vague eastern European accent.
>

There is not much worse than knowing full well you have a sinus infection,
and having the doctor tell you you're fine. Especially when you're the one
who's been living in that body for fifty or so years, and this doctor has
never seen you before. Believe me, if I could hock up a big, green and grey
loogie for you on command, I would. "Culture THIS, bitch!" <grumph> Doctors
who think they know your body better than you do, are a pet peeve of mine.
I'm glad you got your A/Bs, even if she did just give them to you so you'd
shut up. (Bad doctor. BAD doctor. Never, ever give A/B's just to shut your
patient up. If you don't believe they have a bacterial infection, but they
believe it, take a swab and do a culture. It ain't that hard. You're a
lazy, incompetent, BAD DOCTOR. Do me a favor, Neeky - don't go see that
doctor any more, 'kay?)

Laura
wolfljsh at gmail.com